Jean Watson has spent a lifetime studying the effect of caring in nursing, and in 2002 she offered the first edition of Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science . This new edition is now the most comprehensive and current compendium of instruments for assessing and measuring caring in clinical and educational nursing research. This book becomes the first official publication of the Watson Caring Science Institute, an international non-profit foundation to further the work in caring science.The features of this new edition include: new instruments, focusing on assessing caring at the administrative-relational system caring level, addressing a new a population; new chapters on each of the caring instruments, incorporating diverse concepts such as quality of care; patient/client/nurses perceptions of caring; caring behaviors; caring abilities; and caring efficacy; a new chapter on the overview of research and measurement of caring; a new chapter entitled 'Caring Factor Survey'; and, a thoroughly updated master matrix with compilation of all the available caring instruments to-date, including the actual instruments for assessing caring, reported in the nursing literature from 1984 to 2008. Because this book discusses all the available measurement instruments on caring in nursing, along with their origins, development, and use, this second edition is the ideal one-stop resource for anyone in the health sciences or healing professions who needs to know the latest in Caring Science.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer Publishing Co Inc
ISBN-13
9780826121967
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95706464
Product Key Features
Author
Jean Watson
Publication Name
Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Sciences
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Nursing
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
350 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
634g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jean Watson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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