Год выпуска: 2008 Издательство: Страниц: 400 ISBN: 0826121969
Описание
"This second edition not only brings to the forefront the various conceptualizations of caring, but also identifies approaches to the measurement of the concepts which have been derived from multiple perspectives on caring." -- Ora Lea Strickland, RN, Ph FAAN (From the Forward) This book provides the research tools for assessing and measuring care for those in the caring professions. Watson's text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of instruments for care measurement in clinical and ecational nursing research. This newly updated edition contains three new chapters, which provide new methods of selecting appropriate measures, and also includes documentation of caring language, based upon caring theory guided assessment. Key featur of new edition: A new chapter on the overview of research and measurement of caring A new chapter entitled "Caring Factor Survey" New instruments focused on assessing caring at the administrative-relational caring level A...