Nursing: Concepts of practice - Softcover

Orem, Dorothea E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070477183 ISBN 13: 9780070477186

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1980

Synopsis

This book is an effort to give form and structure to knowledge that describes and explains nursing. Nursing can and should be developed as a discipline and that, in justice, persons enrolled in programs of nursing education should be helped to become students of nursing or nursing scholars while they are striving to develop the art of helping others through nursing. Nurses must select and apply nursing knowledge as well as knowledge from many different nonnursing disciplines in order to understand the health care problems of individuals, families and communities. This book is based on a general concept or theory of nursing that explains the relation of the nurse to persons or groups under nursing care. The theory has been used by nurses to guide their nursing practice endeavors and to extend and structure nursing knowledge. The concepts provide a conceptual framework of value to both nursing students and nurses who are developing as nursing scholars and practitioners. The mastery of the concepts should enable nursing students and nurses to place in perspective other descriptions of nursing, including those in areas of nursing specialization.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0070477183
• ISBN 13: 9780070477186
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 232