Overview
- Offers a joint content for theory, research and practice based on scientific literature
- Provides a complete knowledge and solutions for better individualized patients nursing care
- Describes a process of instrument development, validation and use in international context
- Informs on 20 years of international researches
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Framework for Individualised Care
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Research Framework: Measuring Individualised Care
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Research Evidence: The Delivery of Individualised Care
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About this book
This contributed book is based on more than 20 years of researches on patient individuality, care and services of the continuously changing healthcare system. It describes how research results can be used to respond to challenges on individuality in healthcare systems. Service users’, patients’ or clients’ point of views on care and health services are urgently needed.
This book describes the conceptualisation of the individualized nursing care phenomenon and the process development of the measuring instruments of that phenomenon in different contexts. It describes results from a variety of clinical contexts about individualized nursing care and explains factors associated with the perceptions and delivery of individualized nursing care from different point of views. This book may appeal to clinicians, nurses practitioners and researchers from many fields.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Minna Stolt (PhD) is a teacher in the department of Nursing science at University of Turku, Finland. Her professional background is in podiatry and research expertise in foot health. Moreover she has research expertise in the evaluation of health care quality in the field of older people nursing research, ethics and competence of professionals. Her teaching profile includes instrument development, literature reviews and academic writing. She has published several scientific articles and presented her research in national and international conferences. In the field of societal interaction, she is an active advocate for foot health promotion in different age groups and has published plenty popular articles and one textbook.
Dr Evridiki Papastavrou(PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Nursing, and she has a long experience as an Educator, Consultant and Chair of the Cyprus Regulatory body for Nursing and Midwifery. She contributed to the foundation of the Cyprus University of Technology Ethics Committee and she was appointed as a member of the Cyprus National Bioethics committee. She is also a consultant to the development and evaluation of the Nursing Curriculums of several Universities in Cyprus as well as a mission member of the TAIEX (A European body Technical Assistance and Information Exchange). She also has been actively involved in the care and welfare of patients with dementia by being a member of the National Multidisciplinary Committee for Alzheimer’s disease. Her research interest focuses on: a) the aspect of care as a multidimensional and complex phenomenon and b) the effects of care of chronically ill patients on their family careers, especially in dementia care. DrPapastavrou has a record of 113 publications in peer reviewed Journals (with more than 1500 citations).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Individualized Care
Book Subtitle: Theory, Measurement, Research and Practice
Editors: Riitta Suhonen, Minna Stolt, Evridiki Papastavrou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89899-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89898-8Published: 31 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07889-8Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89899-5Published: 22 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing, Quality of Life Research, Public Health