BookJean Watson.
Summary: "Thi book provides all the essential research tools for assessing and measuring carlng for those in the caring professions, Watson's text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of instruments for such measurement in clinical and educational nursing research. The measurements address quality of care; patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring; and caring behaviors, abilities, and efficacy." "Newly updated, this edition also contalns three new chapters, which document the most effective caring language and provide innovative methods of selecting appropriate tools for measurement based on validity and reliability." "Key features of new edition: A chapter providing a comprehensive literature review of the research and. measurement of caring; a chapter entitled "Caring Factor Survey," which presents a new scale based on Watson's original theory of human caring; chapters outlining instruments for care measurement, including the Holistic Caring Inventory, Peer Group Caring Interaction Scale, and many more."--Jacket.
Contents:
Introduction: measuring caring
Caring and nursing science: contemporary discourse
Background and selection of caring instruments
CARE-Q and CARE/SAT and modified CARE-Q
Caring behaviors inventory and new version. Caring behaviors inventory for elders
Caring behaviors assessment tool
Caring behaviors of nurses scale
Professional caring behaviors
Nyberg caring assessment scale
Caring ability inventory
Caring behavior checklist and client perception of caring scale
Caring assessment tools and the CAT-admin
Peer group caring interaction scale and organizational climate for caring questionnaire
Caring efficacy scale
Holistic caring inventory
Caring dimensions inventory
Caring attributes, professional self-concept, and technological influences scale
Caring professional scale
Methodist health care system nurse caring instrument
Relational caring questionnaires
Family caring inventory
Nurse-patient relationship questionnaire
Caring behaviors inventory-short form
Caring nurse-patient interactions scale
Caring factor survey
The evolution of measuring caring: moving toward construct validity
Postscript: thoughts on caring theories and instruments for measuring caring.
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