Routledge Library Editions: Nurse Education and Nursing Care
About the Book Series
Originally published between 1957 and 1988 the volumes in this collection were published at the time when the nursing profession was reviewing its education system and they:
- Give a basic grounding in community medicine and epidemiology for district, community psychiatric and other nurses and health visitors.
- Highlight the role of professional associations in nursing research development.
- Consider topics and concepts that give the specialism of Occupational Nursing its unique character.
- Focus on the philosophy of individualised patient care delivered by a professional nursing service and based on a close, therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient.
- Examine the beginnings of the nursing profession in its present form.
- Explain the relevance of sociology to contemporary nursing.
- Locate interpersonal skills in nursing in both social psychological and nursing contexts.
- Presents an analytical explanation of curriculum design, development and evaluation as applied to nursing.
Behaviour Therapy Nursing
1st Edition
By Philip J. Barker
September 17, 2025
The behavioural approach in nursing practice is the main concern of this book, originally published in 1982. Although the discussion concentrates on the fields of psychiatry and learning disabilities, it is also relevant to other areas of nursing such as the care of the elderly or of sick children....
Community Medicine: A Textbook for Nurses and Health Visitors
1st Edition
By W. E. Waters, K. S. Cliff
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1983 this book gives a basic grounding in community medicine and epidemiology for district, community psychiatric and other nurses and health visitors. It provides the background necessary to an understanding of how diseases occur and spread in populations, and to an ...
Community Nursing: Research and Recent Developments
1st Edition
By G. Baker, J. M. Bevan, L. McDonnell, B. Wall
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1987, this book is based on material generated by the former Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) research project into development in community nursing since the 1974 reorganisation of the National Health Service in the UK. The community nursing staff involved ...
International Issues in Nursing Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Shirley M. Stinson, Janet C. Ross–Kerr
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1986 this book presents a review of specific international themes in nursing research, particularly methodological issues; policy and funding issues; preparation for nursing research and other perspectives such as publication and the role of professional associations in ...
Interpersonal Skills in Nursing: Research and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn M. Kagan
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this book locates interpersonal skills in nursing in both social psychological and nursing contexts. It exposes nurses and nurse educators to different strategies for assessing, teaching and evaluating interpersonal skills and examines those aspects of specialised ...
Nurse Education and the Curriculum: A Curricular Model
1st Edition
By Fred Greaves
September 17, 2025
The nursing process, the curriculum process and theoretical nursing models are essential areas of concern for those nurses who are involved with the design, planning and implementation of nurse educational programmes. Originally published in 1984, this book reviews and brings together appropriate ...
Nurses: The Inside Story of the Nursing Profession
1st Edition
By Donald Gould
September 17, 2025
Nurses now, just as when this book was originally published in 1988, are underpaid and overworked and thousands are leaving the profession every year. But why do many more highly intelligent and well-educated men and women stick to such a difficult and ill-paid job? Donald Gould has tried to ...
Nursing Education: Research and Developments
1st Edition
By Bryn D. Davis
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1987 this book presents a number of research-based studies in nursing education, concentrating particularly on the nursing curriculum and its planning, content implementation and evaluation. Some of the chapters report on specific research projects whilst others are more ...
Nursing History: The State of the Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher J. Maggs
September 17, 2025
In recent years there has been an immense growth in interest in the history of nursing, both from nurses themselves, who are keen to discover the roots of their practice and profession, and on the part of historians and sociologists of health care to nursing history, women’s history and the ...
Nursing Management and Education: A Conceptual Approach to Change
1st Edition
By Michael P. Bowman
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this book examines the nature of management in nursing and discusses the relevance of management education to the job of the nurse. It examines key reports and legislation of the day as they affected the health service in general and nursing in particular. It aims to ...
Nursing in Contemporary Society
1st Edition
By Una Maclean
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1974, the main aim of this book is to help nurses to a deeper understanding of those whom they are learning to serve. The author explains the relevance of sociology to contemporary nursing, showing that patients cannot be fully understood or properly treated without a ...
Occupational Health Nursing
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Slaney
September 17, 2025
When this book was originally published in 1980, the speciality of occupational health nursing was only just beginning to be recognised by the nursing profession and the public although nurses had been doing the job for over one hundred years. One of the reasons for this may well have been the lack...