Integrating Social Support in Nursing / Edition 1

by Miriam J. Stewart

Overview

This is the first volume on social support from a nursing perspective. The author documents nursing's contribution to the field and analyzes current conceptual controversies. She emphasizes the necessity for a social support based framework and proposes a psychosocial model of health care delivery that incorporates environment, nursing and health and that regards patients as partners, families as allies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803942745
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/09/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - Benjamin Gottlieb
Concepts and Controversies in Social Support
Social Support
Impact on Health, Health Behavior and Health Care
Relevance of Social Support to Nurses
Significance of Social Support for Nursing Practice
Contributions of Nurses to Social Support Research
Significance of Social Support for Nursing Theory and Nurse Theoreticians
Significance of Social Support for Nursing Education
Social Support and Nursing
Projection and Prospectus
Commentary - Virginia Tilden