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The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of caring science, Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing reflects the paramount scholarship of Caring Science educators. This second edition intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints, exemplars, and dynamic direction for the application of fundamental principles. It goes beyond the conventional by offering a model that serves as an emancipatory, ethical-philosophical, educational, and pedagogical learning guide for both teachers and students.Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its powerful presence within nursing. Unit I lays the foundation for a Caring Science curriculum. Unit II introduces intellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approaches for faculty-student relations, teaching/learning skills, pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creative approaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. Unit III addresses curriculum structure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, caring in advanced practice education, and the development of caring consciousness in nurse leaders. It also features real-world exemplars of Caring Science curricula. Unit IV includes an alternative approach to clinical and course-based evaluation, and the text concludes with an exploration of the future of the Caring Science curriculum as a way of emancipating the human spirit. Each chapter is structured to maximize engagement with reflective exercises and learning activities that encourage the integration of theory and practice into the learning process.New to This Edition:Updated chapters, case studies, and learning activitiesSix new chapters that provide guidance on how to create a Caring Science curriculumExemplars from institutions that have developed Caring Science curriculaKey Features:Provides a broad application of Caring Science for teachers, students, and nursing leadersFeatures case studies of teacher/student lived learning experiences within a caring-loving pedagogical environmentEncourages the integration of theory and practice into the learning process with learning activities and reflective exercisesDistills the expertise of world-renowned Caring Science scholarsPurchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers

The first graduate text to address health literacy in the aging populationLow health literacy is a critical issue among adults, with over one third found to have difficulty understanding such basic information as that found on prescription bottles. This is the first graduate textbook to address key health literacy issues as they affect the health and wellbeing of the aging population. Embracing a topic spanning numerous disciplines, it features a dynamic, multicontextual systems approach and includes contributions from renowned scholars and practitioners in gerontology, public health, social work, nursing, and other related fields. The text emphasizes increasing health literacy among older adults through the use of technological tools and features, the most current research, and evidence-based programs and practices.The book provides expansive coverage of the intersection of technology and health literacy, highlighting innovative approaches and discussing how to use technology with resource-limited groups. The text gives special consideration to rural, impoverished, culturally diverse, and lowliteracy elders and presents gold standard intervention programs and models. Also covered are the policy implications of programs focusing on increasing health literacy and future directions for meeting the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Case studies, review questions, learning objectives, and supplemental PowerPoint presentations will reinforce learning.Key Features:Provides a one-of-a-kind, multidisciplinary survey of the key health literacy issues of older adultsFocuses on increasing health literacy across the disciplinesAddresses a priority area of Healthy People 2020Incorporates research and practice from gerontology, psychology, public health, social work, sociology, medicine, and nursingIncludes case studies, review questions, learning objectives, and PowerPoint slides for assisting instructors

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles as well as reviews of the latest media and publications on nursing and healthcare history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find Nursing History Review an important resource.The 29th volume of the review features a new section, "Hidden in Plain Sight", dedicated to highlighting nurses from underrepresented groups.Included in Volume 29:Rethinking the Tulsa Race RiotThe Nurses of Ellis Island: Caring for the Huddled MassesDifferent Stories, Similar Results: Urban and Rural Nursing in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyThe Nursing of the All Saints SistersThose of Little Note: Enslaved Plantation "Sick Nurses"

The purpose of this volume of the Annual Review of Nursing Research is to provide an introduction for nurses and other health professionals as they begin to study policy. It includes chapters that consider policy triggers, policy development, policy implementation, and policy outcome evaluation. Chapters have been included to explore healthcare policy across the spectrum, starting with the first spark that ignites an idea which leads to policy.This volume provides readers with new insights on how policies impact health, both positively and negatively, how policies come into being, are implemented, and how the effects of policy interventions are evaluated. Chapters aim to encourage all clinicians to consider how policy, at all levels, impacts individual patients, communities, and the health care delivery system.Our nation's health-care system is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation that provides nurses and the nursing profession with distinct challenges and exciting opportunities to provide visionary leadership, commensurate with its ever-increasing numbers of educated professionals.Key Topics:The Use of Restraint in Civilian and Military Health Care Settings "Playing the Movie Directly": Perceptions of Tobacco Content in Video GamesBody Art in the Perioperative SettingEthical Consideration for Nursing Research With Military PopulationsUsing Nursing Science to Inform Health Policy: The Role of the National Institute of Nursing ResearchEngaging in Policy During Graduate TrainingA Policy Apprenticeship in the Office of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye

This unique text elucidates the relationship between global nursing and global health. It underscores the significance of nurses' contributions in furthering the post-2015 agenda of the United Nations regarding global health infrastructures and examines opportunities for nurses to promote the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to foster health and healthy environments worldwide. While past nursing literature has emphasized nursing's potential involvement and influence in the global arena, this is the first book to identify, validate, and promote nurses' proactive and multidimensional work in furthering current transnational goals for advancing health on a global scale.The book includes an introduction to global health; clarification of terms and roles; perspectives on education, research, and theory related to global nursing; a history of the partnership between the United Nations and the nursing profession; and an in-depth exploration of the 17 SDGs and relevant nursing tasks. It is based on recent and emerging developments in the transnational nursing community and establishes a holistic dialogue about opportunities for nurses to expand their roles as change agents in a global context. The personal reflections of contributors animate such topics as global health ethics, the role of caring in a sustainable world, creating a shared humanity, cultural humility, and many others.KEY FEATURES:Written by leading nurses from around the world, this unique text integrates international initiatives and describes a proactive nursing role in the future of global health.Organized into three units, the book opens with 10 key chapters that outline the importance of nursing in global health, education, and research, highlighting the history of the United Nations as it relates to the nursing profession and examining the legacy of Florence Nightingale.Unit II includes chapters devoted to each of the 17 SDGs and outlines succinctly how nurses can help effect them.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource.Included in Volume 25...Compassionate Care Through the Centuries: Highlights in Nursing History "Endeavoring to Carry On Their Work": The National Debate Over Midwives and Its Impact in Rhode Island, 1890-1940 "A Powerful Protector of the Japanese People": The History of the Japanese Fishermen's Hospital in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada, 1896-1942Confectionery Care: The Child as a Category of Historical Analysis "Doctors Don't Do So Much Good": Traditional Practices, Biomedicine, and Infant Care in the 20th-Century United States

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the essentials of the Therapeutic Community (TC) theory and its practical "whole person" approach to the treatment of substance abuse disorders and related problems. Part I outlines the perspective of the traditional views of the substance abuse disorder, the substance abuser, and the basic components of this approach. Part II explains the organizational structure of the TC, its work components, and the role of residents and staff. The chapters in Part III describe the essential activities of TC life that relate most directly to the recovery process and the goals of rehabilitation. The final part outlines how individuals change in the TC behaviorally, cognitively, and emotionally. This is an invaluable resource for all addictions professionals and students.