Nursing theory 4edition.

This text, in its fourth edition, provides the analytical tools for understanding, analyzing and evaluating nursing theories. Intended for the graduate-level nursing student and the practising nurse, this comprehensive text discusses the basic trends in theory, as well as the structure and content of common theories used in practice and education. In addition, the author examines recent trends and methods that have developed since the last edition, such as New Age nursing theories, ecofeminism, hermeneutics, nursing as healing, spiritualism and nursing intervention. In response to the ever-increasing changes in nursing theory, 80% of the material has been updated.