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.
Origins of General Nursing
1st Edition
By Christopher Maggs
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1983 this book examines the beginnings of the nursing profession in its present form through one generation of general hospital nurses, Voluntary and Poor Law based, who were recruited and trained between 1881 and 1914. As such, they were the first to go through a ...
Primary Nursing: Nursing in the Burford and Oxford Nursing Development Units
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Pearson
September 17, 2025
Primary nursing is a system of care which reinstated the skilled professional nurse at the forefront of practical nursing care. Originally published in 1988, this book presents an argument, based on contemporary literature and on the practice in the former Burford and Oxford nursing development ...
Psychology for Student Nurses
1st Edition
By Jessie Williams
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1954 and as a second edition in 1957, this book provides a survey of the main psychological principles necessary to nurses in their work. As well as being a textbook for nurses in training, it was written in such a way as to be of value to qualified nurses as well. The ...
Research into Nurse Education
1st Edition
By Bryn D. Davis
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1983, this book provides a revealing and comprehensive perspective on nurse education in the 20th Century. The opening chapters look at the students themselves: the sort of people who come into nursing and it examines why the drop-out rate is high and how reality differs ...
Routledge Library Editions: Nurse Education & Nursing Care
1st Edition
By Various Authors
September 17, 2025
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 ...
Social Skills Training and Psychiatric Nursing
1st Edition
By Owen Hargie, Patrick J. McCartan
September 17, 2025
When it was originally published in 1986, this book was one of the few to be written on social skills and mental health specifically for nurses. Yet it is nurses who are uniquely placed to improve the skills of those with mental illness since it is they who often have most contact with patients or ...
Social Skills for Nursing Practice
1st Edition
By Peter French
September 17, 2025
The acquisition of professional interpersonal skills remains one of the key skills in the practice of nursing. Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1994, this established book maintains that social skills can be learnt, and that patient care can improve by anticipating and ...
The Nurse as Therapist: A Behavioural Model
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip J. Barker, Douglas Fraser
September 17, 2025
This book, originally published in 1985, is intended to complement Philip Barker’s previous book Behaviour Therapy Nursing. The latter focussed more on the principles of the behavioural approach to nursing, while this book adopts a more practical approach. It is also shown that the proposed model ...
The Nursing Curriculum: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Fred Greaves
September 17, 2025
Originally published in 1987, this book expands and develops some of the ideas presented in the author’s earlier volume Nurse Education and the Curriculum: A Curricular Model. This book expands that theoretical discussion and presents an analytical explanation of curriculum design, development and ...