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ISBN 10: 0415141699
ISBN 13: 9780415141697
Author: Peter Draper
One of the fundamental aims of nursing is to safeguard or promote patients’ ‘quality of life’. In Nursing Perspectives on Quality of Life, Peter Draper examines existing ways of defining the concept and argues that nurses need to adopt a fresh approach, which more accurately reflects patients’ concerns and helps them to develop practical ways of promoting the well-being of people in their care. The text provides an analysis of statistical approaches to quality of life, including social indicators, the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY), and the medical outcomes literature. The author proposes an alternative, qualitative approach to organising care, which respects the patients’ choice and individuality and presents the findings of new research into the quality of life of older people in hospital wards. Combining original research and a critical analysis of existing models, Nursing Perspectives on Quality of Life is suitable for students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Nursing Perspectives on Quality of Life 1st Table of contents:
PART I: The concept of quality of life and its use in health research
Chapter 1: Introducing quality of life
Chapter 2: Social indicators of quality of life
Chapter 3: The quality adjusted life year (QALY)
Chapter 4: Quality of life and medical research
Chapter 5: The social scientific approach to quality of life: positivism and its limits
PART II: Quality of life and nursing practice: philosophy and methods
Chapter 6: The case for a nursing approach to quality of life
Chapter 7: Hermeneutics: a philosophical basis for the study of quality of life
PART III: Quality of life: a nursing perspective
Chapter 8: Research decisions
Chapter 9: Being at home: the relationship of places and personal possessions to quality of life
Chapter 10: Being an individual
Chapter 11: Organising care to promote quality of life
Chapter 12: Conclusion: quality of life and its contribution to nursing practice
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