This ambitious and long-awaited volume brings together foremost nursing scholars, researchers, and educators to review and critique the state of research across areas most relevant to clinical practice. The contributorship appears as a veritable ‘who′s who’ of nursing research and the contents comprise primary areas in the vanguard of nursing science. In the first section, the authors explore theoretical issues, the variety of philosophical approaches to scientific inquiry in nursing, factors shaping nursing research, and the relationship of the philosophical perspectives to research methodologies. In later sections, the scientists review and analyze the state of nursing science in relation to community health, practice strategies, family care, health promotion, biobehavioral investigations, women′s health, gerontologic nursing, and health system perspectives and outcomes. For physiological as well as psychological research, the most relevant theories driving the research are presented along with the review of multiple diverse instruments and measurement issues. Comprehensive in scope, cogent and truly thought provoking, a book such as the Handbook of Clinical Nursing Research arrives only once or twice in a career. It is a must-have shelf reference for every nurse and for those who would teach them.
Table of Content
PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL, THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES AND ISSUES
Section Overview – Ada Sue Hinshaw
Diversity in Philosophical Approaches – Ada Jacox et al
Evolving Nursing Research Traditions – Ada Sue Hinshaw
Influencing Factors
What Is Known about Caring in Nursing Science – Kristen M Swanson
A Literary Meta-Analysis
Relationship of Research Perspectives to Methodology – Carolyn L Murdaugh
PART TWO (A): CRITICAL HEALTH NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS: CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
Section Overview – Toni Tripp-Reimer
The Sampler Quilt – Clarann Weinert and Mary E Burman
A Metaphor of Rural Communities
Research with Immigrants and Refugees – Juliene G Lipson and Afaf I Meleis
Cultural Interventions for Ethnic Groups of Color – Toni Tripp-Reimer
Community-Focused Interventions and Outcomes Strategies – Joan K Magilvy, Nancy J Brown and Patricia Moritz
PART TWO (B): CLINICAL NURSING PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND NURSE SENSITIVE OUTCOMES
Section Overview – Joan L F Shaver
Promoting Physiological Stability – Pamela H Mitchell
Therapeutic Actions and Outcomes for Preterm (Low Birth Weight) Infants – Barbara S Medoff-Cooper and Diane Holditch-Davis
Therapeutic Outcomes Sensitive to Nursing – William L Holzemer and Suzanne Bakken Henry
PART TWO (C): FAMILIES IN HEALTH, ILLNESS AND LIFE TRANSITIONS
Section Overview – Suzanne L Feetham
Normative Family Transitions and Health Outcomes – Marilyn Mc Cubbin
Nursing Care of Families in No-Normative Transitions – Catherine L Gilliss and Kathleen A Knafl
The State of Science and Practice
Nursing Research of Families – Suzanne L Feetham and Susan B Meister
State of the Science and Correspondence with Policy
PART TWO (D): HEALTH PROMOTION AND RISK REDUCTION
Section Overview – Nola J Pender
Interventions for Promoting Health in Adolescents – Carol J Loveland-Cherry
Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension in Black Americans – Martha N Hill
Lowering Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in Children and Adolescents – Joanne S Harrel and Barabara J Speck
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Intervention in Worksites – Sally Lechlitner Lusk
PART TWO (E): BIOBEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Section Overview – Ada M Lindsey and Joan L F Shaver
Management of Mobility and Altered Physical Activity – Barbara Smith and Mary Mac Vicar
Managing Dyspnea – Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman and Susan Janson
Managing Pain – Betty R Ferrell
Managing Urinary and Fecal Incontinence – Molly C Dougherty and Linda L Jensen
Managing Nausea and Vomiting – Margaret Heitkemper
Managing Sleep and Waking Behaviors and the Symtom of Fatigue – Joan L F Shaver
PART TWO (F): WOMEN′S HEALTH
Section Overview – Nancy Fugate Woods
Women′s Work, Women′s Health – Marcia Gruis Killien
From Menarche to Menopause – Nancy Fugate Woods, Ellen Sullivan Mitchell and Diana Taylor
Contributions form Nursing Research and Recommendations for Practice
Infertility – Ellen Olshansky
Women and Sexuality – Catherine Ingram Fogel
Contributions from Nursing Research and Practice Recommendations
Clinical Nursing Research on Battered Women and Their Children – Jacquelyn Campbell and Barbara Parker
A Review
PART TWO (G): OLDER ADULTS: HEALTH AND ILLNESS ISSUES
Section Overview – Patricia G Archbold
Activities of Daily Living – Beverly L Roberts
Factors Related to Independence
Managing Cognitive Impairment and Depression in the Elderly – Cornelia K Beck et al
Supportive and Non-Supportive Care Environments for the Elderly – Linda R Phillips and Martha Ayres
PART TWO (H): ENVIRONMENTS FOR OPTIMIZING CLIENT OUTCOMES
Section Overview – Joyce A Verran
Acute Care Environments – Gail L Ingersoll and Pamela H Mitchell
Transitional Environments – Dorothy Brooten and Mary Duffin Naylor
Quality Outcomes and Contextual Variables in Nursing Homes – Meridean L Maas and Janet P Specht
About the author
Dr. Shaver is professor and dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), a top-10 college of nursing, according to U.S. News and World Report, and currently highly ranked in federal funding for nursing research and research training. She also is a nationally recognized researcher in women’s health, sleep science, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Dr. Shaver, who was a faculty member at the UA College of Nursing from 1976 to 1977, is expected to join the college as dean in July. She replaces Carolyn Murdaugh, RN, Ph D, who has served as interim dean of the college since June 2008.
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