For graduate-level nursing theory courses, and/or professional issues courses.
Designed to help students understand the development and evaluation of the theoretical base for nursing practice research and education, this text familiarizes students with a broad range of nursing models and their roles in nursing practice. With an emphasis on the application of nursing theories for the advanced practice student, strong attention is given to the relevance of nursing theory to nursing classification systems that are used in advanced practice.
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She has received numerous honors and awards including the "American Journal of Nursing "Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature, is senior editor for Springer's revived "Nursing Leadership and Management Series "and just stepped down as senior editor for Springer's "Annual Review of Nursing Research Series." Her most recent Springer books are "The Doctor of Nursing Practice and Clinical Nurse Leader: Essentials of Program Development and Implementation for Clinical Practice; 201 Careers in Nursing; Encyclopedia of Nursing Research 3e, " and "Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: An Interpersonal Approach (with Jones & Rogers). "