Nursing: Concepts of Practice

PERSONAL, INTERPERSONAL, AND SOCIAL FEATURES OF NURSING . Understanding nursing . Nursing and society . Interpersonal features of nursing . The human condition and care requirements of individuals . Health care situations and nursing . THE FORMALIZATION OF NUSRING KNOWLEDGE . The nature of science in practice fields o Generalizations about nursing: the self-care deficit theory of nursing and its constituent theories . Stages of development of nursing knowledge o VARIABLES OF NURSING SYSTEMS o Views of nursing and views of human kind o Therapeutic self-care demand: an action demand . Self-care agency: a patient power . Nursing agency: a nurse power . Dependant care agents and dependant care systems in relation to nurses and nursing systems o THE PRACTICE OF NURSING o Positive mental health of individuals in nursing practice situations o The practice of nursing: the individual as the unit of service . The practice of nursing in multiperson situations, family, community . Nurses . Appendixes A, B, C