Hugh McKenna & Oliver Slevin 
Vital Notes for Nurses 
Nursing Models, Theories and Practice

Vital Notes for Nurses: Nursing Models, Theories and Practice
provides a concise, accessible introduction to the development,
application and evaluation of nursing theories and clearly outlines
their relevance to everyday nursing practice. It encourages the
reader to view theories from a broader conceptual base, enabling
them to be more objective when it comes to clinical practice.



Suitable for nursing students and newly qualified nurses, the
authors explore the relationship between nursing theories and
practice, specifically analysing their origins, development,
selection and use. It discusses how nursing theories evolve, how
they relate to nursing roles, how to select a nursing theory
relevant to your practice, and how to evaluate theories
critically.

Key Features:

* Clearly examines the relationship between nursing
theory, clinical practice and nursing roles

* Written in a clear, accessible style which assumes no prior
knowledge

* Useful to all nursing students on the common foundation
programme as well as newly qualified nurses.

* Each chapter includes features such as activities, case
studies and learning objectives

* In the Vital Notes for Nurses series

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Introduction: the case for theory in nursing.

Chapter 2: Theory from practice and practice from theory.

Chapter 3: Knowing in nursing and nursing knowledge. Chapter 4:
Nursing theories and nursing roles.

Chapter 5: Nursing theories or nursing models.

Chapter 6: Nursing theories and interpersonal relationships.

Chapter 7: Choosing grand and mid range theories.

Chapter 8: Research based theories and theory based
research.

Chapter 9: Evaluating the worth of nursing theories.

References.

Über den Autor

Hugh Mc Kenna is Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Faculty of
Life and Health Sciences at the University of Ulster.

Oliver Slevin is Lecturer at the School of Nursing, University
of Ulster.