Nursing Catalogue 2016

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How to Nurse: Relational Inquiry with Individuals and Families in Changing Health and Health Care Contexts Gweneth Hartrick Doane, RN, PhD 978-1-4511-9026-7 • January 2014 • Softbound • 7” x 10” • 480 pp.

At the heart of nursing education is the need to prepare students to be safe, competent, ethical providers who are capable of providing high-quality care within the complexities of the ever-evolving North American health care settings. Research shows a gap exists between what nursing students are taught and what they later find out nursing really is as young professionals. Nursing as Relational Inquiry is a groundbreaking text that explicitly acknowledges workplace realities and then offers students a theoretically sound, research-informed way of navigating within the realities they will face upon graduation that will transform their nursing practice called relational inquiry. By highlighting scenarios from both acute and community-based settings throughout all chapters, the authors show the link of their relational inquiry approach and how it can be implemented in practice. What is Relational Inquiry? Relational inquiry involves being an inquirer and enacting nursing as an inquiry process. As an inquirer, nurses enter each nursing situation inquiring into the relational experience of people (including oneself), contexts, knowledge, meaningful purposes, excellence of practices and effectiveness of outcomes (Hartrick Doane & Varcoe, 2008). Like a scientific inquiry, inquiry-based nursing practice involves being in that in-between relational space of knowing/not knowing, being curious, looking for what seems significant, examining the interrelatedness betweenthe elements aswell asthe relevanceofthose interrelationships in the experiential moment and also acting toward them. Features • Real stories and examples, spanning nursing practice, from patients/families/nurses from varying geographic locales , instill an international perspective that will help students become promoters of global health. These stories ground the abstract concepts that comprise the relational inquiry theoretical approach to practice, breaking down the concepts into conversational stories students can easily relate to and learn to apply. • “Try It Out” feature boxes contain learning exercises tailored for students to apply chapter content and build relational inquiry skills. • “This Week in Practice” is an end-of-chapter feature that integrates ideas presented in the chapter and asks readers to draw on their past and present experiences, values, and beliefs.

Table of Contents 1. How to Nurse: An Introduction to Relational Inquiry in Nursing Practice 2. Using Theoretical Lenses to Support Relational Inquiry 3. Nursing Obligations and Ontologic Capacities: The Five Cs Supporting Relationship Inquiry 4. All Nursing is Cultural and Contextual 5. All Nursing is Family Nursing 6. Ways of Knowing to Support Relational Inquiry 7. All Nursing is Theoretically Informed 8. All Nursing is Relational Practice 9. Relational Inquiry Strategies 10. Nursing is Collaborative 11. Leadership in Every Moment of Practice

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