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Individualized Care

Theory, Measurement, Research and Practice

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    • Riitta Suhonen, Minna Stolt, Evridiki Papastavrou
    Pages 1-3
  3. Theoretical Framework for Individualised Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. Theoretical and Philosophical Framework for Individualised Care

      • Michael Igoumenidis, Evridiki Papastavrou, Chryssoula Lemonidou
      Pages 7-15
    3. The Concept of Individualised Care

      • Riitta Suhonen, Andreas Charalambous
      Pages 27-38
    4. Ethical Aspects of Individualised Care

      • Ann Gallagher, Rueben C. Warren
      Pages 39-51
  4. Research Framework: Measuring Individualised Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. Measuring Individualised Care

      • Riitta Suhonen, Chryssoula Lemonidou
      Pages 55-64
    3. The Validity and Reliability of the Individualised Care Scale

      • Minna Stolt, Janika Koskenvuori
      Pages 79-90
    4. Other Instruments Measuring Individuality and Related Concepts

      • Janika Koskenvuori, Minna Stolt, Riitta Suhonen
      Pages 91-105
  5. Research Evidence: The Delivery of Individualised Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. Individualised Nursing Care of Operative Surgical Patients

      • Helena Leino-Kilpi, Sunna Rannikko
      Pages 109-120
    3. Individualised Nursing Care in Older People Care

      • Beatriz Rodríguez-Martín
      Pages 121-130
    4. Individualised Nursing Care in Cancer Care

      • Andreas Charalambous
      Pages 131-139
    5. Individualised Care in Mental Health and Psychiatric Care

      • Maritta Anneli Välimäki, Tella Jemina Lantta
      Pages 141-150
    6. Individualised Care and Rehabilitation

      • Lena von Koch
      Pages 151-162
    7. Individual’s Foot Health

      • Minna Stolt
      Pages 163-169
    8. Individualised Care and Related Concepts

      • Evridiki Papastavrou
      Pages 171-183

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

  • Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku Department of Nursing Science, Turku, Finland

    Riitta Suhonen

  • Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Minna Stolt

  • Department of Nursing, Cyprus University of Technology Department of Nursing, Cyprus, Cyprus

    Evridiki Papastavrou

About the editors

Riitta Suhonen (PhD, RN) is Professor in Nursing Science and has a speciality in Older people nursing science since 2011 in the University of Turku, Finland. She worked as a quality and development manager in a health care district, and as a ward manager, registered nurse in surgical care unit. She is experienced in leading and participating in international cross-cultural studies and currently is a co-researcher in many projects. She is the Associate editor of Nursing Open (Wiley) and Nursing Ethics. She has been a principal investigator and coordinator of the Individualized Care Project since 2002, which evaluates the realization of individuality in patients’ care from patients and nurses' point of view in different clinical fields including national and international parts. The aim of the project is to develop quality of services and care processes for older people and their caregivers. Other research topics are nursing ethics, nursing education and nursing management. She teaches topics such as older people nursing care, research methodology, instrument development, academic writing, quantitative research methods in nursing science and research ethics.


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

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Softcover Book USD 49.99
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