Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice

• New! AACN Essentials #1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice integrated throughout
• New! Emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion, including the addition of “Point of Reflection’ boxes, and three new middle range theory chapters, John Lowe’s Theory of Native Reliance,Mona Wicks’s Family Health Model, and Peggy Chinn’s Philosophy, Theory, and Practice of Peace and Power
• New! Answers to Case Study Reflective Questions posted online for instructors
• Updated & Revised! Reorganized to focus on practice-relevant and need-to-know content
• Updated! Practice exemplars in select chapters that illustrate how to apply theory to practice

• Presents 25 major theories written by the original theorists or eminent scholars to help students understand the interrelationship between nursing theories and nursing practice.
• Covers the middle range theories and practice models that define the best outcomes and links theory to clinical practice.
• Addresses how to implement theory-based practice.
• Explores the historical and contemporary theories that are the foundation of nursing practice today.
• Features in-depth coverage of the development of the theories that guide nursing practice.
• Includes questions to guide reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter.

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