Book by Kirn, Elaine

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Product Description: Community/Public Health/Health Policy (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book was prepared to help nurses learn about the nature, purposes, and different kinds of approaches to qualitative research. The reader will be exposed in this book to several different kinds of qualitative research methods and modes of analysis that should stimulate further study, interest in, and use of the ideas presented. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Caring: An Essential Human Need, contains the papers of the first three National Caring Conferences, presenting substantive ideas, theories, and research findings about care and caring. Historically, nursing and other health science curricula have neglected the concept of care as a part of nursing...read more

Product Description: Care: Discovery and Uses in Clinical and Community Nursing contains rich new insights about human care. It is intended to increase nurses' understanding and uses of human care in hospital and community work. Contributors examine the care values of specific cultural groups, the way care is imbedded and expressed through social structure features, caring in specific cultures, the concept of the caring community, the needs of women who have miscarried, of couples, and of battered children...read more

Product Description: In this collection of essays, contributors from nursing, anthrop logy, and the health sciences share their philosophic, theoretical, and research viewpoints about care. Society tends to view nurses as care providers, but exactly what constitutes care-giving is vague and often misunderstood within curative medical regimens...read more