F.A. Davis Company

2005 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner

What do nurses do? What is nursing? How do you define it? This updated text provides conceptual models and theories to use as guidelines in answering those burning questions for future nurse educators, nurse researchers, nurse administrators, and/or practicing nurses. Included in the text is the most current bibliography of published literature on conceptual models and theories — with yearly updates available on the web.

• An overview and list of key terms for each chapter provides a quick preview of the essential content of each chapter
• Includes the seven major conceptual models of nursing, the three major grand theories of nursing, and three middle-range theories of nursing. Each conceptual model and theory is applied in diverse nursing research, nursing education, nursing administration, and nursing practice situations.
• Lists the nursing process format for each conceptual model and theory helps the students understand how it is actually used in practice
• Strategies show how to implement each nursing model and theory in clinical nursing practice, which address how these models and theories are used in practice
• Includes current reviews of published literature about the conceptual models and nursing theories that guide students toward an understanding of nursing practice, administration, education, and research
• A CD-ROM containing each chapter's bibliography provides a quick way to search the literature about conceptual models and theories