Publisher's Synopsis
The purpose of Nursing Theory: Utilization and Application 2/e is to
demonstrate theory based nursing practice, showing how nursing theory guides
critical thinking for decision making in professional nursing practice. The text is
presented in three parts:
Part One has four chapters, and covers such content areas as the history of
professional nursing; areas of theory-based practice reported in tables and
referenced in the nursing literature; three nursing philosophies, seven nursing
models, and six theories presented in the context of the structure of nursing
knowledge; and the ethical obligations of nursing and the moral imperatives in
nursing philosophies, models and theories.
Part Two has been expanded to include applications of theory-guided nursing
practice written by clinical experts in three sections: philosophies of nursing,
nursing models, and middle-range theories of nursing.
Part Three contains two chapters that speak to expansion in two different ways. One
chapter highlights nursing practice areas for expansion of theory-based practice, and
the final chapter of the text issues a challenge based on nursing values and the
essential nature of theory-based nursing.
