Key Features
- Combines diverse perspectives of the core concept and its use
- Provides international overviews as well as detailed country reports
- Based on extensive literature surveys as well as analytical approaches
- Creates opportunities for comparison especially with regard to problem-solving strategies
Author Information
Edited by Monika Habermann, PhD, RN, Professor of Nursing; Head of the Centre for Nursing Research and Counselling; Head of the International Study Programme for Nursing Management, Hochschule Bremen and Leana Uys, DSocSc(Nursing), RN, RM, Director of the WHO-Collaboration Centre, University of Kwazulu-Natal
Contributors. Foreword by Barbara Parfitt. Acknowledgement. Chapter 1 - The Nursing Process: globalization of a nursing concept (Leana Uys and Monika Habermann). Chapter 2 - Opening new discourses in nursing: the history of the Nursing Process in the UK (Daniel Kelly). Chapter 3 - The Nursing Process: nursing discourse and managerial technologies (Niels Buus and Michael Traynor). Chapter 4 - The Nursing Process in UK mental health care: application to a field of nursing (Martin F. Ward). Chapter 5 - The Nursing Process and information technology (Elske Ammenwerth). Chapter 6 - The Nursing Process: core of nursing? A Finnish perspective (Maritta Valimaki and Marja Kaunonen). Chapter 7 - The Nursing Process: developments and issues in Germany (Monika Habermann). Chapter 8 - The Nursing Process in Australia (Bev Taylor and Chris Game). Chapter 9 - The Nursing Process in South Africa (Leana Uys). Chapter 10 - The neursing Process in the Caribbean (Hermi Hewitt). Chapter 11 - The Nursing Process in the Czech Republic (Alena Mellanova). Chapter 12 - The Nursing Process worldwide: what is the future? (Barbara Stevens Barnum). Index.
"This book offers accurate record of the nursing process's creation and emersion into the nursing culture with mixed success and acceptance." Sue Cross; Nursing Standard; Vol 20
