Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice: A Model for Transforming Practice / Edition 2

by Anne Boykin, Savina Schoenhofer

Overview

Caring is an essential value in the personal and professional lives of nurses. This book is a response to the call for a theory of nursing as caring. The Nursing as Caring theory is about a unique way of living, caring in the world. This theory provides a view that can be lived in all nursing situations and can be practiced alone or in combination with other theories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763716431
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	01/09/2001
Series:	Pub
Edition description:	2E
Pages:	71
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer

Editorial Reviews

Describes a new theory of nursing as caring and caring as a way of nurses living in the world. This theory provides a view that can be lived in all nursing situations and can be practiced alone or in combination with other theories. Illustrates the practical meaning of the theory in a range of nursing situations, discusses nursing service administration from the perspective of the theory, and offers strategies for transforming nursing education based on nursing as caring. Boykin is dean and professor at the Christine E. Lynn Center for Caring, College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University. Schoenhofer teaches graduate nursing at Alcorn State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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