Chapter 2 Evolution of Research in Building Evidence-Based Nursing Practice http://evolve.elsevier.com/Grove/practice/ Initially, nursing research evolved slowly, from Florence Nightingale’s investigations of patient mortality in the nineteenth century to the studies…
Chapter 1 Discovering the World of Nursing Research http://evolve.elsevier.com/Grove/practice/ Welcome to the world of nursing research. You might think it is strange to consider research a “world,” but research is…
Chapter 4 Introduction to Qualitative Research http://evolve.elsevier.com/Grove/practice/ Qualitative research is a scholarly approach to describe life experiences from the perspective of the persons involved. It is a way to give…
Chapter 15. Death and dying Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Arguments for and against the proposition that we have become a ‘death-denying’ society ▪ Rationalist and bureaucratic discourses about death…
Chapter 14. Social responses to illness and disability Susan Philpin KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Deviance and labelling perspectives ▪ The application of labelling perspectives to mental illness ▪ Stigma ▪ Moral…
Chapter 13. Experiencing ill-health Susan Philpin KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Talcott Parsons and the sick role ▪ The experience of chronic illness ▪ Strauss’s framework of problems of chronic illness ▪…
Chapter 12. Lay understandings of health and riska changing picture Lindsay Prior KEY CONCEPTS ▪ The changing status of lay understandings of health and risk ▪ Being-at-risk of a ‘cancer…
Chapter 11. Understandings of health, illness, risk and bodies Susan Philpin KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Health professional perspectives of health and illness ▪ Lay concepts of health and illness causation ▪…
Chapter 10. Partnerships and care in the community Susan Lambert KEY CONCEPTS ▪ The policy context of social care ▪ The mixed economy of care ▪ Partnership working ▪ The…
Chapter 9. Nursing and nursing professionalism Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ The origins and development of modern nursing ▪ Nursing as women’s work ▪ Nursing and professionalism ▪ The changing…
