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Book Nursing Case Studies in Caring

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte Barry, PhD, RN, NCSN
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2015-06-04
  • ISBN : 0826171796
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Nursing Case Studies in Caring written by Charlotte Barry, PhD, RN, NCSN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the art and science of nursing grounded in caring for all nursing situations Grounded in the belief that caring is the central domain of nursing, this innovative book presents a new approach to "nursing situations." These are case studies depicting shared lived experiences between the nurse and patient that are studied from various theoretical perspectives. They are designed to foster a nursing student's ability to care effectively for a patient, family, or group. Each case study features a compelling scenario that engages the reader to feel and fully participate in the caring experience. The book presents a variety of situations that new and experienced nurses are likely to encounter, many of which present scenarios that require caring for a patient under difficult or complex circumstances. The book addresses the need, as defined by leading health care and nursing education organizations, for the study of nursing from a contextual, story-oriented perspective. It is based on the Barry, Gordon & King Teaching/Learning Nursing Framework, developed as a guide to uncover the art and science of nursing grounded in caring in all nursing situations. Following a description of the framework's foundational concepts, the text describes how to use nursing situations to facilitate learning. The scenarios offer detailed, practical strategies for analyzing nursing situations in ways that bring to life the simple and complex practice of nursing grounded in caring. These real-life stories also help students understand the impact of health conditions on individuals and families, thereby fostering empathy. Case studies address nursing situations across a variety of populations, health concerns, and practice settings. Using multiple ways of knowing and understanding, each scenario concludes with direct and reflective questions that help students develop nursing knowledge and skills. The book serves as a core resource for nurse educators and students at all levels seeking to study the art and science of nursing grounded in caring. Additionally, the book is a resource for in-service educators in health care systems that specifically address caring as an essential value for practice. KEY FEATURES: Delivers a new approach to nursing education focusing on the context of caring between nurse and patient Presents a collection of real-life nursing scenarios designed to foster caring knowledge and skills under all circumstances Offers detailed, practical strategies for analyzing nursing situations to aid in learning the practice of nursing grounded in caring Helps students to understand the impact of health conditions on individuals and families

Book A Case Study of Caring in Nursing Education

Download or read book A Case Study of Caring in Nursing Education written by Anna M. Waterman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this case study was to describe a curriculum that teaches caring in the formal, overt curriculum, that is, where caring has been explicitly operationalized in the content and learning experiences of students. Faculty and student perceptions regarding ways of teaching and learning caring were explored and the lived experiences of the students within the caring curriculum described. The focus of this study was to describe how students learn caring during their nursing education. This qualitative case study described one college of nursing in their efforts to teach caring within the context of nursing. The curricular documents were reviewed and a document analysis was done to explain how caring was threaded throughout the formal written curriculum. Caring was threaded throughout the curriculum and was made manifest in every nursing course. Interviews were conducted with 22 faculty and 20 students to describe how the faculty teach caring and how the students learn caring in this curriculum. The research participants were students and faculty involved with the three years of required nursing courses. The teaching of caring in this curriculum was based on Watson's caring theory and the carative factors. Faculty provided a supportive, caring learning environment and used both classroom and clinical teaching strategies to teach caring within the context of nursing. Faculty and students link caring with holism, critical thinking, and the nursing process. Students explain how they learn caring theory first in the classroom and then learn how to implement caring behaviors and the carative factors in their clinical practice. The students' ability to articulate caring in the role of the nurse increased with each year of study. Students and faculty in this curriculum believed that the role modeling of caring was significant in the teaching and learning of caring. Giving voice to the caring in the overt curriculum was important for the students as they learned, discussed and reflected on their caring experiences.

Book The Future of Nursing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2011-02-08
  • ISBN : 0309208955
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book The Future of Nursing written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

Book Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses

Download or read book Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses written by Amber L. Vermeesch and published by Sigma Theta Tau. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is an excellent tool to guide APRNs and their collaborators in healthcare education into conversations about ethical action within the complex challenges of their work.” –Daniel McGinty, EdD Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation & Applied Ethics University of Portland “What a wonderful way to see advanced practice nursing as neither black nor white but instead as a myriad of colors in which to hone principled and just care as our Code of Nursing intends.” –Laurel Hallock-Koppelman, DNP, APRN, FNP-C Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Oregon Health and Science University “Infused with wisdom and clarity, this textbook is a must-read for APRNs of all practice environments and levels of experience. As a clinical ethicist, I was deeply impressed by how much I learned within the pages of this book.” –Kayla Tabari-House, MBE, RN, HEC-C Clinical Ethicist, Providence St. Joseph Health Healthcare delivery can present ethical conflicts and dilemmas for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs)—nurses who already have a myriad of responsibilities in caring for patients. Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses improves APRNs’ agility to resolve ethical quandaries encountered in primary care, hospital-based, higher education, and administration beyond community settings. Through case studies examining various types of ethical conflicts, the authors empower APRNs and students with the critical knowledge and skills they need to handle even the most complex dilemmas in their practice. By applying a set of criteria and framework, this book guides APRNs to use critical thinking to make ethically sound decisions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Case Study #1: Defensive Medicine Case Study #2: STI Confidentiality Case Study #3: Substance Use in Pregnancy Case Study #4: HPV Vaccine Refusal Case Study #5: Abortion Case Study #6: Prostate Cancer Screening with Prostate-Specific Antigen Case Study #7: Administration of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics Case Study #8: Depression Screening in Adolescents Case Study #9: Treatment of Resistant Anxiety Case Study #10: COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescence Case Study #11: Medical Emancipation Versus Confidentiality in Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People Case Study #12: Childhood Obesity Case Study #13: Dementia and Stopping Driving Case Study #14: When to Transition to Palliative Care Case Study #15: Prescription Refill Dilemma for Patient and Spouse in Financial Straits Case Study #16: CRNA Labor and Delivery Epidural Pain Management With a Language Barrier Case Study #17: Violence, Suicide, and Family Dynamics With Medical Complexity Case Study #18: Psychiatric Acute Concerns and Fall Risks Case Study #19: Telehealth Case Study #20: Guiding a School of Nursing Through COVID-19 Focusing on Clinical Placements Case Study #21: Emergency Department Closure Decision-Making: Health System and Community Impact Case Study #22: Ethical Dilemmas in School of Nursing Leadership Pre-COVID-19

Book A Mixed Methods Case Study Exploring Simulation and Caring in Nursing Education

Download or read book A Mixed Methods Case Study Exploring Simulation and Caring in Nursing Education written by Carla Armstead Harmon and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 101 Primary Care Case Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sampath Wijesinghe, DHSc, MS, MPAS, PA-C, AAHIVS
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2020-12-15
  • ISBN : 0826182739
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book 101 Primary Care Case Studies written by Sampath Wijesinghe, DHSc, MS, MPAS, PA-C, AAHIVS and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-life primary care case studies* from more than 50 primary care providers, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians! 101 Primary Care Case Studies offers real-life patient scenarios and critical thinking exercises to help you work through a patient’s chief complaint. Through narrative case studies, you will determine how best to diagnose, treat, and manage your patient based on the history of present illness, review of systems, relevant history, and physical examination findings. This workbook will ask probing questions to help you determine differential and most likely diagnoses, diagnostic tests to order, and appropriate patient management strategies using relevant and timely references to support your decisions. The organization of each case study simulates the patient care journey from chief complaint to outcome. Serving as a virtual clinical preceptor, this workbook can be used independently or in a classroom setting. It is accompanied by a robust online student supplement that provides answers to all questions, real outcomes of the cases, and valuable personal insights from the authors on how the patient was successfully managed. Not only will this workbook help you work through patient cases clinically, it will also share important, but often overlooked, bedside manner skills needed to successfully communicate with and care for your patients. Covering conditions across all organ systems and across the lifespan, this workbook is organized by chief complaint, providing an authentic perspective on what to expect in the patient care environment. It even includes information on pathophysiology and how to use ICD-10 and CPT (E/M) codes in your documentation. The book uniquely weaves together both the science and art of medicine by including personal insights into quality and compassionate care. Key Features Provides real-life patient cases from an interprofessional author team of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians Uses a templated case study design and critical thinking exercises to help you methodically work through various patient scenarios Teaches clinical and bedside manner skills imperative for delivering quality patient care Covers patients across the lifespan, including pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations Offers additional insight on patient education, medical and legal concerns, and interprofessional collaboration Includes a robust online student supplement with valuable insights from the authors on how they successfully managed the cases Provides instructors with a table of contents that is filterable by chief complaint, diagnosis, patient population, and organ system *Details changed to protect patient information.

Book An Educator s Guide to Humanizing Nursing Education

Download or read book An Educator s Guide to Humanizing Nursing Education written by Chantal Cara, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivers specific guidelines for implementing human caring within teaching practices along with a wealth of examples Grounded in the belief that translating caring science within teaching practices will humanize nursing education, this important book emphasizes the ways in which teachers can translate Human Caring and Caritas in order to include strategies for establishing authentic caring pedagogical relationships with their students. It aims to strengthen Human Caring as the basis for humanitarian teaching and to infuse the learning environment with caring practices for both students and teachers. The work provides an antidote for the continuous dominant biomedical and behavioral paradigm in nursing education. It includes specific guidelines for implementing Human Caring ethics, ontology, and epistemology throughout the teaching-learning community and describes how to translate caring values and assumptions into living Caritas as the nurse teachers’ moral ideal and praxis of authentic caring pedagogical relationships. Pragmatic examples provided by administrators, teachers, and students illustrate the value of a humanitarian caring science paradigm for nursing education and caring praxis. Key Features: Delivers an internationally renowned scholars’ perspective on teaching grounded in Human Caring Includes exemplars of educators’ lived teaching experiences guided by their caring pedagogical praxis Provides examples of students’ lived learning experiences within a caring- teaching environment Offers reflective practice exercises for nurse teachers to enhance their caring pedagogical relationships with students Provides guided caring artistic activities to promote ways of knowing, doing, being, and becoming in nursing education

Book Case Studies in Critical Care Nursing

Download or read book Case Studies in Critical Care Nursing written by Sheila Drake Melander and published by Saunders. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and up-to-date, this new second edition offers practical case sudies covering a wide variety of critical care problems. Each features questions and answers to help readers sharpen their critical-thinking skills and prepare for the CCRN exam. It features new chapters on blunt abdominal trauma and abdominal aortic aneurysm, and updated case studies reflect new treatment modalities and current critical care pharmacology.

Book Unfolding Case Studies

Download or read book Unfolding Case Studies written by Kellie J. Glendon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive workbook contains a compilation of unfolding cases across the discipline of nursing, and includes unique aspects of nursing regarding spirituality, family issues, community as client, and gerontology concerns. It integrates concepts of age, setting, role development, and ethical/legal issues. Users gain a simulated experience in prioritizing nursing problems, identifying appropriate teaching strategies, documenting nursing care, and critically analyzing the totality of common situations encountered in professional nursing practice. Unfolding case models deal with obstetrics, pediatrics, mental health, medical surgery, and assorted cases regarding such issues as: falls in the elderly, urinary incontinence, aging, sleep-rest changes, managing staff conflict, public health nursing, vital signs, confidentiality, and spirituality. For educating student and staff nurses in various nursing programs.

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 Clinical Cases  Nursing care case studies   Inkling

Download or read book Clinical Cases Nursing care case studies Inkling written by Margaret Webb and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for: • Diploma of Nursing Students. Apply theory to practice with the Clinical Cases textbook series! Clinical Cases: Nursing Care Studies is the perfect textbook for nursing students completing their Diploma. This nursing book offers a variety of case studies based on common real-life examples that you are likely to encounter in practice. Written by Margaret Webb and Ellie Kirov, Nursing Care Studies focusses on key nursing care topics, including: Vital Signs, Skin Integrity and Wound Care, Community-based Care, General Health Assessment, Medications and Palliative Care. Benefit from the logical structure of this nursing book, where each case study begins with an introduction of the presenting condition and associated symptoms. As the scenario develops, more information is provided, such as the patient’s condition, medications, tests and other important factors. Best of all, the conclusion of each case study emphasises patient outcomes and emphasises key points, providing you a great summary to reflect on. Make the most of Clinical Cases: Nursing Care Studies by using it in conjunction with Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice, 6th Edition by Gabby Koutoukidis, Kate Stainton and Jodie Hughson as you progress through your Diploma of Nursing. Used together, these nursing textbooks provide a strong foundation for your knowledge of important themes and issues in nursing care. Support your nursing education by purchasing the other great titles available in the Clinical Cases textbook series. Other titles in this series: • Clinical Cases: Fundamentals of Nursing Case Studies by Natashia Scully and Damian Wilson. • Clinical Cases: Medical-Surgical Nursing Case Studies by Janine Bothe. Other formats: This book is also available as an App via the Apple App Store https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/clinical-cases-nursing-care/id659030265?mt=8 • Easy-to-understand, logical layout. • 24 case studies covering key topics in nursing care. • Multiple choice questions to test your knowledge throughout the textbook. • Rationales provided for all answers. • References for further reading and research. • Designed as an exam preparation and revision tool.

Book Nursing Case Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon Haws
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-05-13
  • ISBN : 9781512170269
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Nursing Case Studies written by Jon Haws and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Med-Surg Success in the Palm of Your Hand Master the art of critical thinking and clinical reasoning with this book designed to help you develop and utilize the nursing process and prioritization in real to life case studies surrounding the most commonly seen and tested patient diagnosis. After Reading This Book You Will Improve your clinical reasoning skills Develop confidence in answering difficult Med-Surg questions Become familiar with the most common patient disorders Learn how to answer hard NCLEX(R) style questions Improve prioritization skills Master the nursing process in clinical settings Case Study Layout Client case presentation Questions regarding client background Case progression Additional critical thinking questions Rational Each case study includes 8-15 questions that require you to think beyond the most simple rational. Case studies also include highly detailed and in depth rationales (over 500 words) to insure that you are learning as much as possible about the disease process. Disease Processes Covered in this Book Congestive Heart Failure Ischemic Stroke Pneumothorax Hypertensive Crisis End Stage Renal Disease Cirrhosis Acute MI (STEMI) Hypothyroidism End Stage Renal Disease COPD Seizure Disorder Sepsis CABG Pancreatitis Respiratory Acidosis The selection process for the 15 diseases covered in this book included drawing on my experience as a CCRN in a large metropolitan ICU, speaking with other nurses in various specialties, referring to a mountain of NCLEX(R) prep books, reviewing CCRN study materials, speaking with physicians, and reviewing NIH (National Institute of Health) data regarding the most commonly presenting conditions in hospitals. Scroll up to buy!

Book Creating a Caring Science Curriculum

Download or read book Creating a Caring Science Curriculum written by Marcia Hills, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of caring science, this book reflects the paramount scholarship of caring science educators. The volume intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints, living exemplars, and dynamic directions for the application of fundamental principles. It features emancipatory teaching/learning scholarship, and student/teacher, relation/evaluation models for adoption into education and practice regimens. Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its reemergence as a powerful presence within nursing. Unit II introduces intellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approaches for faculty-student relations, teaching/learning skills, emancipatory pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creative approaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. The third unit addresses curriculum structure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, the philosophy of caring-human science, caring in advanced practice education, caring as a pedagogical approach to nursing education, and teaching-learning professional caring based on Watson's theory of human caring. Unit IV explores an alternative approach to evaluation. The final unit explores the future of the caring science curriculum as a way of emancipating the human spirit, with caritas nursing as a transformative model. Key Features: Expands upon the premiere resource for maximizing caring science in education, research, and practice (Bevis and Watson's Toward a Caring Curriculum: A New Pedagogy for Nursing, 1989) Provides a broad application of caring science for graduate educators, students, and nursing leaders Features case studies from two leading U.S. and Canadian universities Distills the expertise of world-renowned scholars Includes reflexive exercises to maximize student engagement

Book Caring and Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane S. Norbeck
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-07-03
  • ISBN : 1000971899
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Caring and Community written by Jane S. Norbeck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although service-learning and nursing would seem an obvious combination, nursing, as a profession within academic, research, and health-care organizations has only recently begun to embrace the true spirit of the practice. The chapters in this book, fourth in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, are rich with information, both theoretical and experiential, that describes ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate service-learning as a methodology into many diverse settings and with communities of interest.

Book Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner

Download or read book Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner written by Leslie Neal-Boylan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner is a key resource for advanced practice nurses and graduate students seeking to test their skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing cases in family and primary care. Composed of more than 70 cases ranging from common to unique, the book compiles years of experience from experts in the field. It is organized chronologically, presenting cases from neonatal to geriatric care in a standard approach built on the SOAP format. This includes differential diagnosis and a series of critical thinking questions ideal for self-assessment or classroom use.

Book Caring and Community

Download or read book Caring and Community written by Jane S. Norbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. These essays focus on nursing, examining partnerships between education and service, nurse and person, and profession and community. Chapters describe both theoretical and experiential ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate service-learning as a methodology in many diverse settings and with many communities of interest. Following the Introduction by Jane S. Norbeck, Charlene Connolly, and Jo Ellen Koerner, three theoretical essays include: "Humanistic Learning in the Context of Service: The Liberal Arts in Nursing Education" (Jean E. Bartels); "Preparing Nurses for Roles That Will Improve Community Health: Two National Programs Enhance Relationships between Providers and Educators" (Mary Kay Kohles, Maryalice Jordan-Marsh, and Margaret T. McNally); and "Service Education Partnerships Create Community Service-Learning Opportunities in a Rural Region" (Sharon P. Aadalen, Mary Kay Hohenstein, Mary I. Huntley, and Annette J. McBeth). Seven essays on classroom applications follow, including: "Service-Learning as a Pedagogy in Nursing" (Elaine Cohen, Susan Johnson, Lois Nelson, and Connie Peterson); "Case Study of a Service-Learning Project in a Nurse-Managed Clinic for Homeless and Indigent Individuals" (Carol L. Macnee, Deborah H. White, and Jean C. Hemphill); "A Case Study in Service-Learning Using a Collaborative Community-Based Caring Model" (Evelyn C. Atchison and Patricia A. Tumminia); "Community Empowerment through Service-Learning" (Leanne C. Busby, Cathy Taylor, and Linda Norman); "Nursing Clinical Education in an Urban Public School System" (Donna Miles Curry, Kimberley X. Hickok, and Kate Cauley); "The Community as Classroom: Service-Learning in Tillery, North Carolina" (Nina P. Shah and Mary A. Glascoff); and "Service-Learning Lessons from the Chambered Nautilus" (Evelyn D. Quigley, Betty Sayers, and Ruth Hanson). Sets of samples syllabi and assignments are provided for four of the essays. A 65-item annotated bibliography, organized by topic, and a list of practitioners is appended. (All papers contain references.) (SM)

Book Quality Caring in Nursing and Health Systems

Download or read book Quality Caring in Nursing and Health Systems written by Joanne R. Duffy, PhD, RN, FAAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality Caring in Nursing and Health Systems, Third Edition delivers a detailed framework of the Quality Caring Model©, a theory that analyzes the relationships among the self, the community served, patients and families, and the health care team. As the population requiring healthcare increases, so does the room for error and the demand for patient-centered care. The health system, focused on procedures, protocols, technology, and lower costs, continues to inflict unnecessary harms upon already vulnerable patients and their families. Nurses, as the largest group of health care professionals that spend the longest time with patients and families, are in a unique position to advance new relationship-centric approaches to health care. This text focuses on the practical application of the Quality Caring Model, featuring new examples of ways to embed caring into the health care environment. An abundance of practice analyses and reflective exercises reinforce the book’s content. Written for nursing students, clinicians, educators, and leaders, this text delves into the intricacies of relational health care. Chapters apply the model to patients and families and provide optimal learning strategies to inform quality-caring competencies. Case studies, interviews, exemplars, relevant lessons, and suggested improvements woven throughout the text push the model further than theory and into practice. New to the Third Edition: Updates and clarifies the Quality Caring Model to improve the safety and quality of health systems Examines the continuing quality crisis in health care Demonstrates the model’s application in clinical, educational, and leadership practice Includes practice analyses at the end of each chapter Discusses how nurses can work in creative ways to implement caring in their practice as per IOM Future of Nursing Report Provides interviews with practicing nurses reflecting the challenges and strategies needed to implement caring in our technopharmacological system Key Features: Examines the evolution of the Quality Caring Model, its key concepts, and the clinical, educational, and leadership implications for application Features interviews with practicing nurses that reflect challenges and successful strategies Includes case studies and practical insights from diverse community and academic health centers Includes learning objectives, boxed calls to action, key summary points and reflective exercises Offers user-friendly visual images and charts Focuses on the challenge of creating value Facilitates Magnet designation