Nursing, 2Ed: A Knowledge Base for Practice

by Moya Jolley (Editor), Abigayl Perry (Editor), Moya Jolley (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $6.32

  Already established as an essential coursebook for nursing students and practitioners, the Second Edition of this comprehensive text continues to explore a range of nursing topics central to undergraduate programmes. Areas covered include health promotion research, curriculum development, psychology, sociology and the carer-client relationship thus reflecting the direction nursing knowledge has taken over the past decade in terms of higher education and academic research.
  
  
  
  The Second edition brings together expert contributors who cover a range of issues relevant to the social practice of nursing; the subjects selected represent a core for an explicit nursing knowledge base even though a national curriculum has yet to be established.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $8.02

  Academic concepts within the social, behavioural and biological sciences are an essential basis for professional nursing practice. This book provides an introduction to nursing as an applied science, explaining fundamental theories relevant to nursing and health care. Using a holistic approach, the contributions show the importance of their various disciplines to the expanding knowledge base of nursing.