Nursing Concept Analysis: Applications to Research and Practice / Edition 1

by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Geraldine McCarthy PhD, MSN, MEd, DipN, RNYT, RGN, Fellow RCSI

Overview

This DNP and PhD doctoral-level nursing text delivers analyses of 30 core concepts that define nursing theory, research, education, and professionalpractice. Grounded in the concept analysis framework developed by Walker and Avant, this book clearly demonstrates how concepts are used to build theory,support research, and improve education and professional practice. Designed to facilitate practical applications of concept analysis methodology, allchapters provide an explicit description of each concept and a consistent framework for its analysis. Additionally, a diagrammatic representation ofcharacteristics across concepts allows readers to make comparisons and ultimately to build on the text’s knowledge base.

Expert authors from clinical and research disciplines focus on the core of nursing—the nurse–patient relationship—grouping material into the categories ofpatient/client-focused concepts, career-focused concepts, and organizational/systems-focused concepts. Within these groups, the book addresses suchcontemporary themes as hope, postpartum depression, resilience, self-care, cultural competence, and many others. With its expansive descriptions andanalyses of key nursing concepts within a consistent framework, the book will help nurse scholars to develop a sophisticated analytic ability and providegraduate nursing students with a foundation for developing a DNP capstone or PhD research project.

KEY FEATURES:

• Offers in-depth description and analyses of 30 core concepts relevant to nursing and related disciplines
• Provides a consistent analytical framework throughout
• Demonstrates a highly practical application of concept analysis methodology
• Includes diagrams of characteristics across concepts for comparison
• Authored by renowned scholars and practitioners

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826126771
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, 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 is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR), and a series of nursing research digests

Geraldine McCarthy, PhD, MSN, MEd, RNT, RGN, Fellow RCSI, is emeritus professor at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University County Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland, and chair of the South/South West Hospital Group, which comprises nine hospitals in the South of Ireland.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

PART I: PATIENT/CLIENT-FOCUSED CONCEPTS

1 . Concept Analysis

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick and Geraldine McCarthy

2 . Elder Self-Neglect

Mary Rose Day

3 . Exercise Adherence

Kari Gali

4 . Hardiness in Stroke

Irene Hartigan

5 . Help-Seeking Behavior for Breast Cancer Symptoms

Máirín O’Mahony

6 . Hope in Mental Health Recovery

Joan Murphy and Moira O’Donovan

7 . Meaning in Life

Elizabeth Weathers

8 . Medication Habits

Serena M. Fitzgerald and Elaine Lehane

9 . Motivation

Teresa Wills

10 . Parental Concern

Helen Mulcahy

11 . Patient Engagement

Rosemary Ventura

12 . Quality of Life

Corazon B. Cajulis, Linda Ahn, Colleen DeBoer, and Denise O’Dea

13 . Self-Care Strategies

Margaret G. Landers

14 . Self-Motivation

Aliza Bitton Ben-Zacharia

15 . Stigmatization

Donald Gardenier

PART II: CAREGIVER-FOCUSED CONCEPTS

16 . Anxiety

Catrina Heffernan

17 . Caregiver Burden in Mental Illness

Zamzaliza A. Mulud

18 . Clinical Autonomy

Patrick Cotter

19 . Compassion Fatigue

Mary T. Quinn Griffin and Ernesto P. Mir

20 . Cultural Competence

Karen Bauce

21 . Decision Making by Nurse Managers

Mary T. Quinn Griffin, Deborah J. Stilgenbauer, and Germaine Nelson

22 . Emotional Intelligence

Patricia Prufeta and Lauraine Spano-Szekely

23 . Empathy

Bertha Ku

24 . Interprofessional Collaboration

Miriam Bell

25 . Mindfulness

Jill Matthes

26 . Nurse Manager Accountability

Mary E. Quinn and Mary T. Quinn Griffin

27 . Social Support for New Mothers

Patricia Leahy-Warren

28 . Resilience

Mary Joy Garcia-Dia and Deirdre O’Flaherty

29 . Triage Nurse Expertise

Alice Corbett and Mary T. Quinn Griffin

PART III: ORGANIZATION-FOCUSED CONCEPTS

30 . Nurse Workarounds

Margaret A. Harris

31 . Organizational Commitment

Janet H. Johnson

32 . Teamwork

Siobhan Sundel and Sapina Kirpalani

33 . Transformational Leadership

Bernadette Khan

34 . Work Engagement

Jennifer Siller

35 . Summary and Conclusions

Geraldine McCarthy and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Martha Scheckel, PhD, RN (The Catholic University of America)
Description: This is a compilation of concept analyses with a focus on their application to research and practice.
Purpose: The purpose is to present concept analyses that depict perspectives within nursing, group them into content and process categories, and demonstrate application of Walker and Avant's content analysis process to the concepts. These objectives are worthy and give voice to concepts in nursing.
Audience: The intended audience is nurse scholars. The book is designed to guide them to advance nursing knowledge by examining the largest collection of concept analyses provided in a single book. Many others also can benefit from the book, including student nurses at all levels of education, nurse educators, and practicing nurses across specialties. The book can provide them with a succinct understanding of salient concepts in the discipline of nursing and the application of these concepts in practice. Both the editors and the contributors are credible authorities with diverse backgrounds, ranging from educators and researchers to advanced practice nurses and nurse administrators. Such an array of contributors provides a balanced presentation.
Features: The book groups the concept analyses into three categories: patient/client-focused, caregiver-focused, and organization-focused. Each category contains relevant concept analyses that are useful to nurses in today's healthcare systems. For example, transformational leadership, a concept analysis in the section on organization-focused concepts, discusses a highly regarded leadership style that nurse leaders seek to be successful in constantly changing and complex environments. Especially helpful is the consistent format of each chapter, which includes an overview of the concept and its defining attributes, definition, antecedents, consequences, empirical referents (measures), and concept diagrams. Most important is the application of the concepts to cases. These cases facilitate understanding about how to use the concept analyses in real-life situations, easing translation of concepts from theory into practice.
Assessment: Initially, the book appears too brief and simplistic. Yet, with further examination, it is clear that the editors and contributors provide a thoughtful and tangible way to convey concept analyses to nursing audiences. This approach to presenting concept analyses is engaging and motivates readers to learn more about concept analyses in research, practice, and education.

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