Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, Third Edition

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick · Meredith Kazer

Aug 2011 · Springer Publishing Company

About this ebook

Named a 2013 Doody's Essential Purchase!

Named a "Choice Outstanding Academic Title" for 2007 and an "AJN Book of the Year

The award-winning Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its third edition, is the comprehensive resource for tracking developments in the field. With over 20 new areas of research, and meticulous updates of original entries, the encyclopedia presents key terms and concepts and their application to practice. Pithy entries provide the most relevant and current research perspectives, and will be a starting point for future content and references. Nurse researchers, educators, students, and all clinical specialties will find the encyclopedia an important introduction to the breadth of nursing research today.

New topics include NIH-funded research areas, a comprehensive survey of major nursing research journals, addictions care, palliative care, translational science, simulation, trauma care, family-centered care, mild cognitive impairment, active surveillance for cancer care, workplace and empowerment research, nurse engagement, nurse-physician collaboration, CAM and empowerment research, spirituality, synthesis and action research, mixed methods research, systematic review, ethnopharmacology, and more.

Key Features:

• Includes NIH-funded research topics
• Provides a comprehensive survey of major nursing research journals
• Adds over 20 new areas of research and updates original entries
• Written by over 200 nursing research experts
• Organized alphabetically for easy access to information

About the author

Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She has received numerous honors and awards including the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 20 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature, and serves as Editor of three nursing journals. Her most recent Springer Publishing books are Theory in Nursing: Application to Research and Practice, co-edited with Geraldine McCarthy (2014), the Encyclopedia of Nursing Education, co-edited with Mary Jane Smith and Roger Carpenter (2015), and Concept Analysis, co-edited with Geraldine McCarthy (2015). She also co-edited, with Kathleen Tusaie, the Springer book, Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches (2012). Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, A/GNP-BC, is Associate Professor, Fairfield University, School of Nursing.