Product Description: Delivers all information required for the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing courseBy embracing the major conceptual and theoretical contributions to nursing research that are outside of traditional nursing theory, this book serves as a vital resource for nurse researchers, and one that is indispensable for doctoral nursing students embarking on their dissertations...read more

This resource addresses specific assessment and intervention strategies needed for clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. The book provides a systematic model of nursing assessment and intervention which takes into account six cultural phenomena: communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations. The model then serves as the organizing framework for the rest of the book.* Features Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, with a full chapter devoted to each of the six aspects of cultural assessment, to help the reader apply this model to any client of any culture. * Presents critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter to help students apply the assessment framework in practice. * Includes an expansion of the spiritual component throughout, with an emphasis on various religions. * Offers clarification of some of the biological variations for select cultural groups. * Includes most recent census information and statistics for each cultural group presented.

Product Description: Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice, 2nd Edition, shows your undergraduate and graduate students how theory will help them improve the ways in which they practice nursing. It contains contributions by the original theorists, including discussion of how theories can be used in practice and examples of implementation written by nurses themselves...read more