EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Unitary Caring Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Watson
  • Publisher : University Press of Colorado
  • Release : 2018-07-16
  • ISBN : 1607327562
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Unitary Caring Science written by Jean Watson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unitary Caring Science: The Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing takes a profound look at conscious, intentional, reverential caring-healing as sacred practice/praxis and as a necessary turn for survival. Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar. A detailed historical discussion of the evolution from Caring Science toward Unitary Caring Science reflects the maturing of the discipline, locating the nursing phenomena of wholeness within the unitary field paradigm. An exploration of praxis as informed moral practice results in an expanded development of the ten Caritas processes, resulting in a comprehensive value-guide to critical Caritas literacy and ontological Caritas praxis. Watson writes for the Caritas Conscious NurseTM or the Caritas Conscious Scholar/Practitioner/Educator on the journey toward the deeper caring-healing dimensions of life. Unitary Caring Science offers a personal-professional path of authenticity, bringing universals of Love, Energy, Spirit, Infinity of Purpose, and Meaning back into nurses lives and their life’s work. Unitary Caring Science serves as a continuing, evolving message to the next generation of nurse scholars and healing-health practitioners committed to a praxis informed by mature disciplinary consciousness. Each book comes with a set of Caritas cards, and individual customers will also receive a secure link to select copyrighted teaching videos and meditations on www.watsoncaringscience.org.

Book Caring Science as Sacred Science

Download or read book Caring Science as Sacred Science written by Jean Watson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this continuing work, I have allowed myself to incorporate personal material...for my own caring-healing processes ...So, in some ways, writing about caring and sacred science may not be tolerated in academic circles and scholarly work, but if there was ever a time to converge personal and professional authentic ethical efforts for living/being/doing/becoming scholarly, spirit-filled and scientific, it is NOW." Jean Watson Written by the leading expert in Caring Science Dr Jean Watson, this updated newly revised text offers a moral and philosophical foundation for all health professionals. This moral/ethical framework offers the reader a way to work and view life through a caring and healing lens. The author discusses a new paradigm for mind-body-spirit nursing, medicine and healthcare. You will gain core knowledge of caring as it relates to both education and the practice of compassionate, professional human caring and healing. This new edition includes Watson's most recent writings on the Seven Sacred Sutras as well as her 10 Caritas Processes(R), a foundational, values-based guide in which to base your life and work.

Book Human Caring Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Watson
  • Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1449628109
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Human Caring Science written by Jean Watson and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Nursing: human science and human care / Jean Watson. c1999.

Book A Handbook for Caring Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Rosa, MS, RN, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN, FCCM, Caritas Coach
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2018-09-28
  • ISBN : 0826133894
  • Pages : 900 pages

Download or read book A Handbook for Caring Science written by William Rosa, MS, RN, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN, FCCM, Caritas Coach and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental compendium of Caring Science past, present, and future This groundbreaking work is an encyclopedic reference on the full spectrum of Human Caring Science. With contributions from highly accomplished scholars and practitioners from six continents, it spans the evolution of Caring Science from its origins 40 years ago through its ongoing innovation and development and into the future. Comprehensive and in-depth, this resource brings multigenerational perspectives to Caring Science and demonstrates its ethical nursing applications across cross-cultural settings worldwide. The book’s broad scope embodies the paradigm’s theoretical foundations, guidance from Caring Science educators and researchers, and practice insights from expert clinicians and administrators. It offers strategies to influence meaningful policy change, integrate principles throughout cross-cultural and global settings, and introduces inspiring voices from luminaries in coaching, Caring Science creative arts, spirituality, and self-care. The text clearly demonstrates how theories, frameworks, and paradigms are directly integrated into practice, research, and educational settings. Scholarly narratives and discourses on Caring Science will facilitate understanding of how to transform systems with a caring consciousness and ethically informed action. Chapters, consistently formatted to promote ease of comprehension, include exemplars with reflective questions and references. Key Features: Traces the history of Caring Science and merges it with current and future perspectives Provides a “how-to” guide for understanding the integration of theories, frameworks, and paradigms into practice, research, and education Distills a vision of how to transform systems with a caring consciousness and a commitment to ethically informed action Enables readers to cross-reference Caring Science leaders across specialties Illustrates Caring Science practice through case studies, examples, and discourses Supports hospitals in procuring or maintaining ANCC Magnet certification Identifies research and practice opportunities for readers to integrate Caring Science into their professional milieus

Book Caring Science  Mindful Practice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2013-07-30
  • ISBN : 0826171540
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Caring Science Mindful Practice written by Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caring Science, Mindful Practice offers unique and practical project examples that nurses will consider for their practice or educational settings. With its integration of Watson's caring science and mindfulness principles, Sitzman and Watson have extended knowledge of Watson's caring science and caritas processes through integrating Thich Nhat Hahn's mindfulness perspective and practices. The book offers rich examples of nursing projects that may broaden nursing care for greater patient and student satisfaction and assist nurses with holistic self-care." -- Gale Robinson-Smith, PhD, RN is Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Villanova University, International Journal for Human Caring "This book provides wonderful tools for nurses to use in practice, education, or even for self-care. Designed for any nurse, new or experienced, who wishes to learn more about applying Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory to practice, it supplies the meaning behind the importance of having a practice based on mindfulness....[It] is a practical, easy-to-read book for all nursing audiences and could be used at any educational level."--Doody's Medical Reviews ìSitzman and Watsons' book is an invaluable resourceÖ The strength of this book is its simplicity on one level yet its complexity as the reader works throughout the layers incorporated within the book.î--Nursing Times This is the first text to help students and practicing nurses translate and integrate the philosophy and abstracts of Caring theory into everyday practice. It was developed for use as the primary text for an online caring theory course that will be offered through the Watson Caring Science Institute in October 2013. Through case examples and guiding activities, the book helps students and practitioners to more fully comprehend the meaning and use of each Caritas Process. It draws upon the contemplative and mindfulness teaching of Thich Nhat Hahn, a renowned Buddhist monk, poet, author, teacher, and peace activist. Each of the ten Caritas Processes are clearly presented by the author and accompanied by guided mindfulness and artistic practices to support learning and absorption of the method. These artistic practices include the use of images, art, metaphors, and expressive symbols that are designed to promote meaningful introspection and self-awarenessóthe underpinnings of genuine Caritas practice. The book reflects several years of teaching by the author, who has been invited by several large health care institutions (including Kaiser-Permanente) to provide training based on her materials. Key Features: Helps students and practitioners to integrate the philosophy and abstracts of Caring theory into clinical practice Offers case studies and guided activities to reinforce content Draws upon the contemplative and mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn Includes concrete guided mindfulness and artistic practices for each of the ten Caritas Processes Designed for a wide audience including undergraduate, graduate and international nursing students

Book Caring in Nursing Classics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marlaine C. Smith
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2012-12-12
  • ISBN : 0826171117
  • Pages : 551 pages

Download or read book Caring in Nursing Classics written by Marlaine C. Smith and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart

Book Martha Rogers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louette R. Johnson Lutjens
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
  • Release : 1991-09-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Martha Rogers written by Louette R. Johnson Lutjens and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991-09-16 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in the series presents the nursing theory of Martha Rogers, together with examples of its applications to practice and research. Rogers envisions nursing as a compassionate concern for maintaining and promoting health, preventing illness, and caring for and rehabilitating the sick. Her theory, the Science of Unitary Human Beings, with its high respect for the individual, has identified the phenomenon that is the true object of nursing, the person as a unified whole.

Book Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science

Download or read book Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science written by Jean Watson PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As in the first edition, the author has done a magnificent job compiling these instruments and providing important information that the reader can use to evaluate their usefulness." --Ora Lea Strickland, RN, PhD, FAAN (From the Foreword) This book provides all the essential research tools for assessing and measuring caring for those in the caring professions. Watson's text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing research. The measurements address quality of care, patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring, and caring behaviors, abilities, and efficacy. Newly updated, this edition also contains three new chapters, which document the most effective caring language and provide innovative methods of selecting appropriate tools for measurement based on validity and reliability. Key features of new edition: A chapter providing a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring A chapter entitled "Caring Factor Survey," which presents a new scale based on Watson's original theory of human caring Chapters outlining instruments for care measurement, including Holistic Caring Inventory, Peer Group Caring Interaction Scale, and many more New instruments focused on assessing caring at the administrative-relational caring level An updated section dedicated to challenges and future directions of the measurement of caring

Book Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice

Download or read book Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice written by Marlaine C Smith and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted nursing scholars explore the historical and contemporary theories that are the foundation of nursing practice today. The 5th Edition, continues to meet the needs of today’s students with an expanded focus on the middle range theories and practice models that link theory to clinical practice. You’ll explore the role of these theories in the real-world to see how they guide nursing practice.

Book Metaphysics of Watson Unitary Caring Science

Download or read book Metaphysics of Watson Unitary Caring Science written by Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL-AAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivers a transcendent worldview uniting science, metaphysics and a cosmology of Love, in the service of healing humanity This innovative publication addresses metaphysics as a core consideration and foundation for the evolution of nursing in the context of Watson's Unitary Care Science. If affirms and invites a maturing of the nursing profession and its developing consciousness of human-universe as the substance of Unitary Caring Science, along with its basis in the evolving cosmology of love. Within this conceptual framework the book examines metaphysics and the non-physical, invisible, spirit realm of human experiences, health, and healing, creating a new space to explore the relationship between science and spirit phenomena generally eschewed in Western thought. Addressing such topics as the meaning of metaphysics and why now is an ideal moment to pursue a unity of nursing and metaphysics, the book describes the personal, metaphysical and mystical experiences of the author and other contributors as a catalyst for readers to awaken and examine their own such experiences. Using an evolved Unitary Caring Science worldview of what is considered real and true within this paradigm and beyond Western science, the text honors the self in relation to diverse, unique experiences of patients from all backgrounds and belief systems. It explores personal experiences that cannot be explained using the dominant worldview and seeks to integrate science and metaphysics as a core branch of philosophy. A metaphysical understanding of nursing’s unitary relational worldview of oneness as foundation for mature discipline and practice provides nurses with a philosophical, theoretical, and scientific foundation for the evolution of humankind. The text also explores the cosmology of Love as the foundational energy of life and the basis of a new call to the nursing profession to awaken their ancient and future role as metaphysicians of caring, health, and healing. Key Features: Provides metaphysical evidence and a deep philosophical understanding of the role of metaphysics and the cosmology of Love within Watson's Unitary Caring Science Disseminates these teachings through the writings of prominent nurse scholars, philosophers, theologians, scientists, and historians Includes personal moments, messages, and quotes to create evocative imaginative meanings and inspiration to metaphysical phenomena Demonstrates how the concept of soul and spirit can be metaphysically reconciled as a real and true phenomena of concern within nursing Explores Unitary Caring Science in depth in relation to mature nursing phenomena and a worldview encompassing healing and health

Book Nursing  Caring  and Complexity Science

Download or read book Nursing Caring and Complexity Science written by Dr. Alice Ware Davidson, RN, Ph.D. and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 AJN Book of the Year Winner in Professional Development and Issues! "This collected scholarship...will inform the personal/professional evolution of caring and nursing into this century and beyond, inviting new visions of the evolved human in the world of practice, education, research, administration, and clinical care. It is truly a visionary futuristic manifesto for this time in nursing and health sciences at all levels." Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing Founder: Watson Caring Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado (From the Reflection) This innovative volume explores nursing and complexity science, and investigates how they relate in research, education, and practice. The book examines best methods for using complex systems, with expert contributing authors drawn from nursing, sociology, informatics, and mathematics. Each author is actively involved in studying and applying complexity science in diverse populations and various settings-especially in terms of nursing, chronic care, health care organizations, and community health networks. Chapters conclude with a response written by a nursing scholar, administrator, or practitioner, focusing on chapter concepts relevant to the complex systems seen in nursing. Chapters also include models that relate how these concepts can be used in practice, management, education, and research-from micro to macro scales. The first of its kind, this book demonstrates the potential of complex systems perspectives in nursing and health care research, education, and practice. Key Features Presents the central concepts of complexity science as they relate to nursing Facilitates greater understanding of human caring relationships through the lens of complex organizational systems Provides examples of how to create and implement complex systems models that enhance care for individuals, and in leadership roles, organizational caring, nursing informatics, and research methods

Book Postmodern Nursing and Beyond

Download or read book Postmodern Nursing and Beyond written by Jean Watson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book written by Jean Watson, a highly regarded visionary of nursing theory reestablishes the critical balance between caring and curing. It blends the technical aspects of modern medicine with the holistic focus traditionally associated with nursing, and serves as a model for nursing practice into the 21st century.

Book Nursing as Caring

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Boykin
  • Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780763716431
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Nursing as Caring written by Anne Boykin and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a new theory of nursing as caring and caring as a way of nurses living in the world. This theory provides a view that can be lived in all nursing situations and can be practiced alone or in combination with other theories. Illustrates the practical meaning of the theory in a range of nursing situations, discusses nursing service administration from the perspective of the theory, and offers strategies for transforming nursing education based on nursing as caring. Boykin is dean and professor at the Christine E. Lynn Center for Caring, College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University. Schoenhofer teaches graduate nursing at Alcorn State University. c. Book News Inc.

Book Quantum Leadership

Download or read book Quantum Leadership written by Tim Porter-O'Grady and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Integrative Nursing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Jo Kreitzer
  • Publisher : Weil Integrative Medicine Libr
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 019085104X
  • Pages : 745 pages

Download or read book Integrative Nursing written by Mary Jo Kreitzer and published by Weil Integrative Medicine Libr. This book was released on 2018 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Integrative Nursing is a complete roadmap to integrative patient care, providing a guide to whole person/whole systems assessment and clinical interventions for individuals, families, and communities. Treatment strategies described in this version employ the full complement of evidence-informed methodologies in a tailored, person-centered approach to care. This text explores concepts, skills, and theoretical frameworks that can be used by healthcare leaders interested in creating and implementing an integrative model of care within institutions and systems, featuring exemplar nurse-led initiatives that have transformed healthcare systems. This volume covers the foundations of the field; the most effective ways to optimize wellbeing; principles of symptom management for many common disorders like sleep, anxiety, pain, and cognitive impairment; the application of integrative nursing techniques in a variety of clinical settings and among a diverse patient population; and integrative practices around the world and how it impacts planetary health. The academic rigor of the text is balanced by practical and relevant content that can be readily implemented into practice for both established professionals as well as students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate nursing programs. Integrative medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) as well as all aspects of lifestyle; it emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative. Series editor Andrew Weil, MD, is Professor and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Weil's program was the first such academic program in the U.S., and its stated goal is "to combine the best ideas and practices of conventional and alternative medicine into cost effective treatments without embracing alternative practices uncritically."

Book A Contemporary Nursing Process

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr. Rozzano C. Locsin, RN, PhD, FAAN
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2009-04-10
  • ISBN : 9780826125798
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book A Contemporary Nursing Process written by Dr. Rozzano C. Locsin, RN, PhD, FAAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] speaks against thinking [that] we can only understand nursing from a traditional, logical, empirical approach, suggesting we need a contemporary process for exploring nursing. I can't agree more." --Journal of Christian Nursing "Nurse scholars from across the globe contribute essays to this unique philosophical exploration of today's nursingÖ.This book presents an emerging view that requires nursing to look at its work through a broader and less structured lens. Challenging the structure of the traditional nursing process, the book considers nursing as reflective and thoughtful." --Doody's A Contemporary Nursing Process re-envisions the practice of nursing by configuring caring in terms of the person the nurse cares for. Locsin and Purnell stress the importance of knowing the patient, and differentiating the person from the disease. This text addresses this highly relevant issue, and provides a wealth of insight on how to care for the patient on a personal level, while still professionally administering clinical treatment. Chapters discuss: How to appreciate persons as participants in their care, rather than as objects of care The ideal of care versus the practical demands of care Technological advancements shaping human life and nursing The consequences of "not knowing" the patient on a personal level

Book Middle Range Theory for Nursing

Download or read book Middle Range Theory for Nursing written by Mary Jane Smith and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart