Theory of Chronic Sorrow
CHAPTER 31 Theory of Chronic Sorrow Ann M. Schreier and Nellie S. Droes “Chronic sorrow is the presence of pervasive grief-related feelings that have been found to occur periodically throughout…
State of the Art and Science of Nursing Theory
CHAPTER 37 State of the Art and Science of Nursing Theory Martha Raile Alligood “In this seventh edition, the goal is to clarify the relevance of nursing theoretical works, facilitate…
Watson’s Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring
CHAPTER 7 Watson’s Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring D. Elizabeth Jesse “The nursing profession, and each nurse within it, is invited to consider/reconsider: How do we walk through life?…
Health as Expanding Consciousness
CHAPTER 23 Health as Expanding Consciousness Janet Witucki Brown “We have to embrace a new vision of health. Our caring must be linked with a concept of health that encompasses…
Peaceful End of Life Theory
CHAPTER 36 Peaceful End of Life Theory Patricia A. Higgins “Standards of care offer a promising approach for the development of middle-range prescriptive theories because of their empirical base in…
Theory of Caring
CHAPTER 35 Theory of Caring Danuta M. Wojnar “Caring is a nurturing way of relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility.”…
Self-Transcendence Theory
CHAPTER 29 Self-Transcendence Theory Doris D. Coward “The quest for nursing is to understand the nature of and to facilitate nursing processes in diverse contexts of health experiences.” (Reed, 1997a,…
Logical Reasoning
CHAPTER 3 Logical Reasoning Sonya R. Hardin and Sue Marquis Bishop “Like most other words, deduction and induction have common meanings related to, but different from their meaning within systems…
Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
CHAPTER 8 Theory of Bureaucratic Caring Sherrilyn Coffman “Improved patient safety, infection control, reduction in medication errors, and overall quality of care in complex bureaucratic health care systems cannot occur…
Philosophy of Caring
CHAPTER 10 Philosophy of Caring* Herdis Alvsvåg “Nursing is founded on caring for life, on neighbourly love, … At the same time it is necessary that the nurse is professionally…
