Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science

Jean Watson

• 23 september 2008
• 9780826121974

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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. br/ --boldOra Lea Strickland, /boldRN, PhD, FAAN (From the Foreword)br/ br/br/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. br/br/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. boldKey features of new edition:/boldbr/ bulletlist bulletA chapter providing a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring bulletA chapter entitled Caring Factor Survey, which presents a new scale based on Watson's original theory of human caring bulletChapters outlining instruments for care measurement, including Holistic Caring Inventory, Peer Group Caring Interaction Scale, and many more bulletNew instruments focused on assessing caring at the administrative-relational caring level bulletAn updated section dedicated to challenges and future directions of the measurement of caring /bulletlist;chapter