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Person-centred Nursing: Theory and Practice

ISBN: 978-1-444-39050-6

July 2010

Wiley-Blackwell

208 pages

Description
The concept of 'person-centredness' has become established in approaches to the delivery of healthcare, particularly with nursing, and is embedded in many international healthcare policy frameworks and strategic plans. This book explores person-centred nursing using a framework that has been derived from research and practice.

Person-centred Nursing is a theoretically rigorous and practically applied text that aims to increase nurses' understanding of the principles and practices of person-centred nursing in a multiprofessional context. It advances new understandings of person-centred nursing concepts and theories through the presentation of an inductively derived and tested framework for person-centred nursing. In addition it explores a variety of strategies for developing person-centred nursing and presents case examples of the concept in action.

This is a practical resource for all nurses who want to develop person-centred ways of working.

About the Author
Professor Brendan McCormack, Professor of Nursing Research, Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster. Director of Nursing Research and Practice Development, Royal Hospitals Trust, Belfast. Adjunct Professor of Nursing, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Tanya McCance, Reader, Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster. Director of Nursing Research and Development, Ulster Community and Hospitals Trust, Belfast.