Interpretive Phenomenology in Health Care Research: Studying Social Practice, Lifeworlds, and Embodiment

Interpretative phenomenological analysis aims to offer insights into how a person within a given context makes sense of a phenomenon. Usually, these phenomena relate to experiences of some personal significance, such as a major life event (acute or chronic illness, death of a loved one, change in economic status, etc.) or the development of an …

The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions

By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this collection identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level. This collection also affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions. Contributors from the fields of medicine, nursing, …

Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics

The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever before. Yet most people over sixty-five live with the burden of one or more chronic …

The Primacy of Caring: Stress and Coping in Health and Illness

First-person accounts from practicing nurses provide students with expert role models in this authoritative yet personal text that focuses on patients’ responses to stress. The breadth and value of the nursing experience is reinforced as nurses share how their caring made a critical difference for patients and their families. This text, winner of two American …

Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care, Second Edition: A Thinking-in-Action Approach

A classic research-based text in nursing practice and education. This newly-revised second edition explains (through first-hand accounts of the hard-earned experiential wisdom of expert nurses) the clinical reasoning skills necessary for top-tier nursing in acute and critical settings. It provides not only the most current knowledge and practice innovations, but also reflects the authors’ vast …

Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring, and Ethics in Health and Illness

Patricia Benner’s introduction to phenomenology develops the reader’s understanding of the strategies and processes involved in this innovative approach to nursing. The author discusses the relationship between theory and practice, considers the possibility of a science of caring from a feminist perspective, introduces interpretive phenomenology to the study of natural groups such as families, and …

From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice

This coherent presentation of clinical judgment, caring practices, and collaborative practice provides ideas and images that readers can draw upon in their interactions with others and in their interpretation of what nurses do. It includes many clear, colorful examples and describes the five stages of skill acquisition, the nature of clinical judgement and experiential learning …

A professor and two students along with the book Educating Nurses: A call for radical transformation

Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation

Since the last national nursing education study 40 years ago, profound changes in science, technology, patient activism, the market-driven health care environment, and the nature of nursing practice have all radically transformed nursing education. Educating Nurses, part of the Preparation for the Professions series from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, explores key issues …