Nursing Theory: Analysis, Application, Evaluation - Softcover

This highly-revered classic, in its fourth edition, provides the analytical tools for understanding, analyzing and evaluating nursing theories. Ideal for the graduate level nursing student, this comprehensive text discusses the basic trends in theory, as well as the structure and content of common theories used in practice and education. In addition, the author examines new trends and methods that have developed since the last edition such as New Age nursing theories, ecofeminism, hermeneutics, nursing as healing and spiritualism. In response to the ever-increasing changes in nursing theory, 80% of the material is new.