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Transforming Nursing Education
Springer Publishing Company 2008; US$ 59.00" Readers will learn more about how to create a dynamic, inclusive and challenging learning environment that remains true to the purpose of graduating highly qualified nurses to meet the need of a diverse multiracial, multicultural, multilingual society.". -- Gloria Smith, RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN, FRCN. Bosher and Pharris's provocative and... more...
Teaching Nursing in an Associate Degree Program
Springer Publishing Company 2003; US$ 60.00This practical "how to" book for teaching nursing in an associate degree program is for new and not-so-new faculty. Advice gleaned from the author's many years of teaching is presented in a friendly and easy-to-read format, designed to quickly help new faculty get a positive sense of direction. The special issues of AD nursing students... more...
Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education
Springer Publishing Company 2009; US$ 80.00"This 3rd edition has again given us philosophical, theoretical and social/ethical frameworks for understanding assessment and measurement, as well as fundamental knowledge to develop evaluation tools for individual students and academic programs.". -Nancy F. Langston, PhD, RN, FAAN. Dean and Professor. Virginia Commonwealth University School... more...
Nursing and Women?s Labour in the Nineteenth Century
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 125.00This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation. Nineteenth century nursing history has, until now, concentrated almost exclusively on nurse leaders, on the development of nursing as a profession and the politics surrounding registration. This emphasis on big... more...
Advances in Nurse Education
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2009; US$ 148.50As the number of countries around the world preparing registered nurses (RN) in universities and equivalent higher education institutions increases, it is not uncommon to read of concerns in both the academic and popular literature about the practice of newly registered nurses as they enter the workforce. Some of these comments will refer to what are... more...
Parish Nursing - 2011 Edition
Templeton Press 2011; US$ 9.99The engaging stories in Parish Nursing provide accessible and enjoyable accounts of real parish nurses, both paid and volunteer, who attend to the needs of their congregations in a variety of ways—from home, hospice, and hospital visits to community outreach. This revised edition gathers their stories of hearing and heeding God’s call,... more...
Nursing before Nightingale, 18151899
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 119.95Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century onwards, historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas's... more...
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It discusses how Japanese nursing adopted western models,... more...
Nursing the Image
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations. How has this image come to be constructed? An empirical investigation of representations of nursing practices in Britain... more...
Implementing Inquiry-Based Learning in Nursing
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95If you want to introduce Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) into your curriculum but are not sure how to go about it, this book will set you on the right track. In this text the author shares the experience of leading a project to implement IBL as a whole integrated pre-registration curriculum and provides a blueprint for successful implementation. The... more...









