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Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Beginning

Author(s): Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, Weber State University
Lisa Wright Eichelberger, DSN, RN, Clayton State University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763747664
  • ISBN-10:0763747661
  • Paperback    208 pages      © 2004
Price: International Sales $67.95 US List
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Designed specifically for undergraduate nursing students, this text makes nursing theory accessible, meaningful, and enjoyable!

By presenting the difficult concepts of nursing theory through art, Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists helps students understand the work of 17 prominent scholars. The use of art as a teaching methodology translates Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences into nursing students' everday practice. Students enrich their mastery of nursing as they learn to employ kinesthetic skill mastery, pattern recognition, artful observation, and naturalistic inquiry. 

 

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Companion website, http://nursing.jbpub.com/sitzman with student resources, messages from the authors, sample syllabus, sample chapters, and more.

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Uses art to illuminate nursing theories, in turn mobilizing creativity for the construction of personal meaning.

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Learning activities at the end of each chapter that enable students to apply concepts of nursing theories.

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Activities that are visual, tactile, and kinesthetic, allowing students to be able to read, see, touch, and manipulate the learning materials.

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Language that is written in a helpful and engaging manner, designed for first-time nursing theory students who may believe that theory will be irrelevant, uninspiring, and difficult to grasp.

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Information that clarifies and illuminates the depths of nursing theories in ways that will hold meaning for your students long after the class is over.

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Chapter 1: What is Nursing Theory

Chapter 2: Why are Theories Important

Chapter 3: The Development of Nursing Theory

Chapter 4: Evaluating a Theory for Usefulness

Chapter 5: Using the Art of Georges Seurat to Envision Philosophies

Chapter 6: Florence Nightingale's Definition of Nursing

Chapter 7: Virginia Henderson's Definition of Nursing

Chapter 8: Ernestine Wiedenbach's Helping Art of Clinical Nursing

Chapter 9: Jean Watson's Theory of Human/Transpersonal Caring

Chapter 10: Using Mandala Art to Envision Grand Theories

Chapter 11: Myra Estrin Levine's Conversation Model

Chapter 12: Betty Neuman's Systems Model

Chapter 13: Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model

Chapter 14: Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Model

Chapter 15: Using Origami Art to Envision Middle Range Theories

Chapter 16: Ida Jean Orlando's Nursing Process Theory

Chapter 17: Madeleine Leininger's Culture Care: Diversity and Universality Theory

Chapter 18: Katherine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort

Chapter 19: Nola Pender's Health Promotion Model

Chapter 20: Using Space Photography to Envision Theories that Defy Classification

Chapter 21: Martha Rogers' Unitary Human Beings

Chapter 22: Margaret Newman's Health as Expanding Consciousness

Chapter 23: Further Development of Nursing Theory

Chapter 24: Use of Information Technology among Nursing Theorists

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Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN-Weber State University

Kathleen Sitzman earned her BSN from the University of Utah in 1984. She has practiced in many areas of nursing since then, devoting the most time and energy to home healthcare and hospice nursing. She received a Master’s of Science in nursing in 2001, and since then, has focused on teaching in the nursing program at Weber State University.  She is a nurse researcher and has so far been the principle investigator for three research studies, the results of which were published in peer-reviewed journals in 2001 and 2002.   Sitzman is also a prolific nurse writer, having published over 60 articles (and counting) in peer-reviewed journals over the last 6 years.
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Lisa Wright Eichelberger, DSN, RN-Clayton State University

Dr. Lisa Wright Eichelberger is currently a Professor at Clayton College and State University where she has taught nursing theory, management and interactive communications for the past seven years.  She has over 25 years of teaching and administrative experiences in nursing education programs in many types of universities ranging from private, religious, single-purpose to large public research institutions.  Dr. Eichelberger is an expert in the use of computer technology in delivering on line nursing education and distance learning.  Dr. Eichelberger has over fifteen years' experience as an evaluator of nursing programs for national accrediting agencies and served an Educational Consultant for American Association Colleges of Nursing Colleagues in Caring Project Office of Workforce Redevelopment 1998-2002.  She has also published in the area of nursing competency and competency models.

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  • "Lisa, Your book is wonderful – I used it to develop a new way to present our nurse theorists and one student actually said, 'I always thought about what nurses do and never looked at the art of what they do – this activity and discussion has given me a lot more to think about and explore'."

    —Kathie Kulikowski
    Faculty Associate
    Arizona State University College of Nursing

     

    "This is a wonderful book to introduce students to nurse theorists."

    —Joyce Henderson
    Associate Professor
    Union University

    "Short and easy-to-follow for BSN students."

     

    "The approach of this text makes nursing theory accessible, meaningful, and enjoyable to study...While most nursing theories are undeniably complex, explanatory simplicity is intentionally used in this text to foster creative encounter with nurse theorists, encouraging students to engage and leverage the information into a more complete understanding of each theory's more complex and nuanced points as their interest and study advance...[Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists] should be owned by all health science and academic libraries supporting nursing education programs."

    —E-Streams, v. 7, no. 10
    http://www.e-streams.com

    "I commend the authors for taking such a creative approach. Nursing needs more creative approaches/activities!"

    —Sue Bryant

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