Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Sciences: Watson’s Caring Science Guide
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-9541-8 (ISBN)
The only text to contain a broad range of validated instruments to measure caring.
This text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of validated and reliable instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing and health professions research. These measurements address quality of care; patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring; and caring behaviors, abilities, and efficacy. The third edition is updated throughout and includes a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring. It features several new tools and instruments, and updates all established tools and instruments to reflect how each has been used in the past ten years. The third edition also presents a new chapter on assessing and measuring caring in digital/cyberspace settings, discusses global developments in assessing and measuring caring, and provides an updated section dedicated to the challenges and future directions of caring measurement.
Each tool/instrument is presented according to a standard framework for ease of use. This framework includes a description of each tool/instrument and its origin, its development and use, key citations for its use, and its theoretical origin and access.
New to the Third Edition:
Includes a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring
Updates all instruments and tools to reflect how each has been used in the past ten years
Presents new instruments including “Student Perceptions of Caring Online”
Offers an updated section dedicated to challenges and future directions of the measurement of caring
Provides new chapter on assessing and measuring caring in digital/cyberspace settings
Updates references to reflect new literature
Discusses global developments in assessing and measuring caring
Key Features:
Contains a broad range of validated instruments to measure caring in an expanding array of health care settings including clinical, academic, and community
Serves as a valuable resource for PhD, DNP, and other graduate students to support their dissertations and projects
Constitutes a key resource in clinical settings where clinicians have opportunities to measure caring among nurses, patients, and interdisciplinary colleagues
Aids health care institutions applying for Magnet Status
Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, Distinguished Watson Caring Science Scholar, is a professor of undergraduate nursing science at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is distinguished professor emerita and dean emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of Colorado. She is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a past president of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Watson is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden, and five honorary doctoral degrees, including Honorary International Doctor of Science awards from Goteborg University, Sweden, and Luton University, London. Dr. Watson's caring philosophy is used to guide new models of caring and healing practices in diverse settings worldwide. At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of distinguished professor of nursing, the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Pflege ► Studiengänge ► Pflegewissenschaft |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-9541-5 / 0826195415 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-9541-8 / 9780826195418 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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