作者: Jeanne Benoliel

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Ph D, MBA, RN, FAAN, is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She has received numerous honors and awards including the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 20 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature, and serves as Editor of three nursing journals. Her most recent Springer Publishing books are Nursing Concept Analysis: Application to Research and Practice (2016); and Theory in Nursing: Application to Research and Practice (2014) , both co-edited with Geraldine Mc Carthy, and Encyclopedia of Nursing Education, co-edited with Mary Jane Smith and Roger Carpenter (2015). She also co-edited, with Kathleen Tusaie, the first edition of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches (2012).