Theoretical Basis for Nursing

by Melanie McEwen (Editor), Evelyn M. Wills (Editor)

This text is the most contemporary and comprehensive Nursing Theory textbook on the market today. Written in an easily understood style, it reflects current content course needs by addressing the underlying information needed to understand and apply theory to practice. One of the most popular aspects of this text is how it presents shared theories from other disciplines—such as the sociological, behavioral, and biomedical sciences—and relates them to nursing practice, research, education, and administration.

Genres: Nursing, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Medical

551 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2001

Reviews

[Josh Eiler]

Awful organization. Lacks depth. Good exemplars, but not comprehensively supported. Often introduces theories inconsistently, with bias, and sometimes with little to no consistent depth or utilitarian comprehensiveness.

[Laura Felty]

All I can say is nursing theory is hard.

[Cristi Biehle]

Theoretical Basis for Nursing was read for my master's level nursing theory course. It was dry, to say the least. However, everything in this book was relevant and did a fantastic job connecting the dots from my everyday nursing practice to the theories behind those practices. The only thing I didn't like in this book was a section about group projects needing to make up a more significant portion of nursing education programs. In a perfect world, these group projects may be beneficial, but we all know they are just a stress fest that everyone wants to get done with. Overall, this textbook did a great job of relaying the information needed to bring light to the importance of nursing theories and how they separate nursing from a task-driven, physician-led practice to a profession.

[Rachel Nicole Wagner Martinez]

This is a really great textbook and I will refer back to it over and over again as I am studying for my PhD. This is a great resources and valuable reference :)

xo,
Rach

[Alexandra (Lex)]

0/10 do not recommend. Kidding.. mostly

[Kasey May]

Wish I could give it 0 stars

[Rachel Nicole Wagner Martinez]

I honestly loved this book the first time I read it because of its readability and ease of understanding. This time around was no different :)

~xo,
Rach

[SheriC]

A useful textbook, well written, easy to read. I relied most heavily on this book for my class.