Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Sciences by
As in the first edition, the author has done a magnificent job compiling these instruments and providing important information that the reader can use to evaluate their usefulness.. -- Ora Lea Strickland, RN, PhD, FAAN (From the Foreword). This book provides all the essential research tools for assessing and measuring caring for those in the caring professions. Watson's text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing research. The measurements address quality of care, patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring, and caring behaviors, abilities, and efficacy. Newly updated, this edition also contains three new chapters, which document the most effective caring language and provide innovative methods of selecting appropriate tools for measurement based on validity and reliability. Key features of new edition: .: .; A chapter providing a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring.; A chapter entitled Caring Factor Survey, which presents a new scale based on Watson's original theory of human caring.; Chapters outlining instruments for care measurement, including Holistic Caring Inventory, Peer Group Caring Interaction Scale, and many more.; New instruments focused on assessing caring at the administrative-relational caring level.; An updated section dedicated to challenges and future directions of the measurement of caring.;chapte
Caring Science As Sacred Science by
This Print on Demand title is available exclusively through Amazon.com. Written by the leading expert in caring science, this book presents Jean Watson's expanded view of the emerging field of caring science as it complements the dominant curing science for health professionals. The framework focuses on the philosophical, theoretical, ethical, and core knowledge of caring.
The Ethics of Care and the Ethics of Cure (no cover art) by 
Nursing by
This classic book by renowned nurse theorist Jean Watson discusses the balance between science and caring that is the basis of the nursing profession. Watson's Theory of Human Care draws from the works of Western and Eastern philosophers, approaching the human care relationship as a moral idea that includes concepts such as phenomenal field, actual caring occasion, and transpersonal caring. Inherent in this theory are concepts of health and illness, the environment, and the universe.
Postmodern Nursing and Beyond by
This new book written by Jean Watson, a highly regarded visionary of nursing theory reestablishes the critical balance between caring and curing. It blends the technical aspects of modern medicine with the holistic focus traditionally associated with nursing, and serves as a model for nursing practice into the 21st century.
Unitary Caring Science by 