Nursing theory utilization & applications

• Main Author: Alligood, Martha Raile (Author, Editor)
• Corporate Author: Marriner-Tomey, Ann 1943- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis Mosby 2002
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Nursing Theory; Models, Nursing
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• Physical Description: xviii, 507 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780323011945; 0323011942

The purpose of "Nursing Theory: Utilization and Application 2/e" is to demonstrate theory based nursing practice, showing how nursing theory guides critical thinking for decision making in professional nursing practice. The text is presented in three parts: Part One has four chapters, and covers such content areas as the history of professional nursing; areas of theory-based practice reported in tables and referenced in the nursing literature; three nursing philosophies, seven nursing models, and six theories presented in the context of the structure of nursing knowledge; and the ethical obligations of nursing and the moral imperatives in nursing philosophies, models and theories. Part Two has been expanded to include applications of theory-guided nursing practice written by clinical experts in three sections: philosophies of nursing, nursing models, and middle-range theories of nursing. Part Three contains two chapters that speak to expansion in two different ways. One chapter highlights nursing practice areas for expansion of theory-based practice, and the final chapter of the text issues a challenge based on nursing values and the essential nature of theory-based nursing