Product Description: This ground-breaking book is designed to enable nurses to understand the process of planned change. It presents overviews of three widely accepted change theories as well as a new systems-orientated planned change theory, and shows the implications of the theories for nursing practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first volume in the series presents the nursing theory of Martha Rogers, together with examples of its applications to practice and research. Rogers envisions nursing as a compassionate concern for maintaining and promoting health, preventing illness, and caring for and rehabilitating the sick...read more

Product Description: This volume provides an easily understood presentation of Roy's Adaptation Model of nursing theory which views the person as a biopsychosocial being in constant interaction with the changing environment. Roy believes nursing is needed when unusual stressors or weakened coping mechanisms make the person's usual attempts to cope ineffective...read more