Transforming Healthcare through Quality Caring: A Nurse’s Guide to Promoting Patient-Centered Care

Discover the power of caring relationships in improving patient outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and enhancing clinician well-being. This acclaimed text, freshly updated, demonstrates how nurses can foster caring relationships with individuals, groups, and communities across various healthcare settings.

Praise for Previous Editions

“I enjoyed the book. It was well written, current, and timely with changes in the healthcare system. The reflective questions and practice analysis were great and would be wonderful to use with students at the graduate and undergraduate levels.” – Doody’s Medical Reviews

About the Book

Grounded in the author’s Quality Caring Model, a middle-range theory, this book analyzes relationships among the self, community, patients and families, and the healthcare team. It expands upon the concept of self-caring, examining current thinking on employee work engagement and creating value. Interviews with practicing nurses provide valuable insights into current healthcare challenges and strategies for managing them.

Written for nursing students, clinicians, educators, and leaders, this book delves into the intricacies of relational healthcare, imparting strategies to address the ills of our current health system by focusing on nursing care that advances equity, pursues innovative and advanced educational experiences, leads, and engages in practice across multiple settings.

Key Features and Updates

• Examines in depth the evolution, key concepts, and clinical, educational, and leadership applications of the Quality Caring Model
• Underscores the significance of caring relationships in improving the safety and quality of healthcare systems
• Delivers comprehensive, concise, evidence-based content throughout
• Offers practical insights with real-life case studies and interviews in diverse community and academic settings
• Includes memorable quotes, learning objectives, boxed calls to action, key summary points, reflective exercises, and Practice Analysis supporting an active, learner-centered approach
• Updated to address the latest recommendations from NAM’s The Future of Nursing 2020-2030, ANA’s 2021 Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, AACN’s 2021 The Essentials, and AACN’s 2021 Entry-to-Practice Nurse Residency Program Standards
• Expanded content on the challenges of self-caring with practical guidance for preventing moral injury
• Examples of caring behaviors in action
• Current thinking on employee work engagement and creating value
• Interviews with practicing nurses reflecting challenges and strategies for dealing with the current state of healthcare
• Updated information on resiliency, long-term career planning, and work engagement
• Revised educational and leadership strategies to address the post-pandemic health system

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, December 2022. Language: English. ISBN: 9780826136862, 9780826136961.