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Understanding and Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Offers the reader a synopsis of research, appreciating both the science and art of inquiry. This book is designed to present the elements of conducting and understanding nursing research. It describes both quantitative and qualitative investigations, and is useful for graduate students and nurse researchers.
Suitable for those teaching nursing, at various levels, in various programs or institutions. This book covers trends and strategies to help you develop a curriculum and be more effective in using it. Each chapter contains common-sense approaches to the educator's questions.
Provides a thorough and provocative examination of how different cultures measure intelligence and skill, why they use the tools they use, and how their assessment methods are changing in the globalizing world.
Draws together and critically reviews the research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.
From the frontier to the university, this exciting collection traces the development of the nursing profession through the biographies of individual nurses since 1925 that helped to create its unique history. Among the notable nurses featured in this volume are Faye Abdellah, Virginia Henderson, Margaret Kerr, Thelma Schorr, and many more.
This volume is uncontestably the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject of self-care available to date. It should set the stage for a new policy perspective on building a health care system that incorporates self-care at its core.--Lowell S. Levin, Yale School of Public Health Practitioners and researchers who work with older ......
Toxicity in older adults manifests itself in negative behaviors and attitudes. This book presents theories and case examples to help us understand this phenomenon and provides useful techniques for caring for toxic elders. It is useful for social workers, therapists, caregivers, and students.
Presenting research in the biology of aging, this volume addresses theoretical issues, focusing on the basis for why humans live as long as they do. Topics explored include: why does aging occur; cellular aging; models in aging research; modern approaches to the mechanisms of aging; and the genetics of behavioral aging.
Official Publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the ......
