Encyclopedia of Nursing Research

Book Detail

Author/Editor(s): Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD MBA RN FAAN, Meredith Kazer PhD APRN A/GNP-BC
Publication Date: August 24, 2011
ISBN-10: 0826107508
ISBN-13: 978-0826107503
Language: English
Edition: 3
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Size: 4.84 MB
Format: pdf

Book Description

Named a "Choice Outstanding Academic Title" for 2007 and an "AJN Book of the Year"

The award-winning Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its third edition, is the comprehensive resource for tracking developments in the field. With over 20 new areas of research, and meticulous updates of original entries, the encyclopedia presents key terms and concepts and their application to practice. Pithy entries provide the most relevant and current research perspectives, and will be a starting point for future content and references. Nurse researchers, educators, students, and all clinical specialties will find the encyclopedia an important introduction to the breadth of nursing research today.

New topics include NIH-funded research areas, a comprehensive survey of major nursing research journals, addictions care, palliative care, translational science, simulation, trauma care, family-centered care, mild cognitive impairment, active surveillance for cancer care, workplace and empowerment research, nurse engagement, nurse-physician collaboration, CAM and empowerment research, spirituality, synthesis and action research, mixed methods research, systematic review, ethnopharmacology, and more.

Key Features:

Includes NIH-funded research topics
Provides a comprehensive survey of major nursing research journals
Adds over 20 new areas of research and updates original entries
Written by over 200 nursing research experts
Organized alphabetically for easy access to information

About the Author

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).

Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, A/GNP-BC, is Associate Professor, Fairfield University, School of Nursing. Dr. Kazer is a well-known Springer author, and her books include the previous edition of Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (2005), Prostate Cancer Nursing Assessment Management and Care (2002), an AJN Book of the Year Award winner; Essentials of Gerontological Nursing (2007); ,Gerontological Nurse Certification Review (2008), and the Gerontological NP Certification Review. In 2002 she was Associate Editor, The Geriatric Nursing Research Digest. She is a t recipient of the ENRS/John A. Hartford Foundation investigator award. Dr. Kazer is an adult NP and currently practices in primary care with a focus on chronic illness in the elderly.

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