• Unit 1: Steps zero, one, two; getting started :
• Making the case for evidence-based practice and cultivating a spirit of identity
• Asking compelling clinical questions
• Finding relevant evidence to answer clinical questions
• Unit 1 making EBP real: A success story. Using an evidence-based, autonomous nurse protocol to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a long-term acute care facility
• Unit 2: Step three: critically appraising evidence :
• Critically appraising knowledge for clinical decision making
• Critical appraising quantitative evidence for clinical decision making
• Critically appraising qualitative evidence for clinical decision making
• Integration of patient preferences and values and clinician expertise into evidence-based decision making
• Advancing optimal care with robust clinical practice guidelines
• Unit 2 making EBP real: A success story. Intradermal lidocaine intervention on the ambulatory unit : an evidence-based implementation project
• Unit 3: Steps four and five: moving from evidence to sustainable practice change :
• Implementing evidence in clinical settings
• The role of outcomes and evidence-based quality improvement in enhancing and evaluating practice changes
• Implementing the evidence-based practice competencies in clinical and academic settings to ensure healthcare quality and improved patient outcomes
• Leadership strategies for creating and sustaining evidence-based practice organizations
• Unit 3 making EBP real: A success story. Improving outcomes for depressed adolescents with the brief cognitive behavioral COPE intervention delivered in 30-minute outpatient visits
• Unit 4: Creating and sustaining a culture and environment for evidence-based practice :
• Innovation and evidence : a partnership in advancing best practice and high quality care
• Models to guide implementation and sustainability of evidence-based practice
• Creating a vision and motivating a change to evidence-based practice in individuals, teams, and organizations
• Teaching evidence-based practice in academic settings
• Teaching evidence-based practice in clinical settings
• ARCC evidence-based practice mentors : the key to sustaining evidence-based practice
• Unit 4 making EBP real: A success story. Mercy heart failure pathway
• Unit 5: Step six: Disseminating evidence and evidence-based practice implementation outcomes :
• Using evidence to influence health and organizational policy
• Disseminating evidence through presentations, publications, health policy briefs, and the media
• Unit 5 making EBP real: A success story. Research projects receive worldwide coverage
• Unit 6: Generating external evidence and writing successful grant proposals :
• Generating evidence through quantitative and qualitative research
• Writing a successful grant proposal to fund research and evidence-based practice implementation projects
• Ethical considerations for evidence implementation and evidence generation
• Unit 6 making EBP real: Selected excerpts from a funded grant application. COPE/healthy lifestyles for teens : a school-based RCT
• Appendix A: Question templates for asking PICOT questions
• Appendix B: Rapid critical appraisal checklists
• Appendix C: Evaluation table template and synthesis table examples for critical appraisal
• Appendix I: ARCC model timeline for an EBP implementation project
• Appendix J: Sample instruments to evaluate EBP in educational settings
• Appendix K: Sample instruments to evaluate EBP in clinical settings.

"Enhance your clinical decision-making capabilities and improve patient outcomes through evidence-based practice. Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice (EBP) an integral part of your clinical decision-making and everyday nursing practice with this proven, approachable text. Written in a straightforward, conversational style, Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare delivers real-world examples and meaningful strategies in every chapter to help you confidently meet today's clinical challenges and ensure positive patient outcomes"-- Provided by publisher.

• Caritas coaching : an overview
• My quest for caritas literacy
• Living a caritas consciousness : a philosophy for our everyday practices as nurse educators
• Creating an essence of compassion : a personal reflection on the journey through caring science
• Caritas coach : a work in progress
• The caritas coach : an instrument of healing
• Living caritas
• Love Is the essence
• Nursing as a sacred act of caring : practicing with an open mind and open heart
• Caritas coach literacy : sustaining loving-kindness for self and others
• Caritas coach reflections
• Reconnection
• The learning path of a caritas coach nurse
• Transformation through caring moments
• Caring leadership as a caritas coach
• Creating and sustaining a caritas way of being
• Working with others within the context of caring relationships
• A physician's journey with caritas : a path to healing
• Reflections of a caritas coach
• A global paradigm shift for the caritas coach
• The ever-evolving, introspective, and morally active life of a caritas coach.

• Global advances in human caring literacy / Jean Watson [US]
• Advancing caritas literacy in practice, education, and health systems / Susan Lee [US]
• Building global caritas community through online education / Kathleen Sitzman [US]
• The caring science imperative : a hallmark in nursing education / Jacqueline Whelan [Ireland]
• The use of simulation to strengthen humanistic practice among nursing students in the Canton of Vaud / Philippe Delmas [Switzerland]
• Thinking, acting, and leading through caring science literacy / Sara Horton-Deutsch [US]
• The co-emergence of caritas nursing and professional nursing practice in Peru / Patrick Palmieri [Peru]
• Creating intentionality and heart-centered leadership in the hospital setting / Jacqueline Somerville [US]
• Relational caring inquiry (RCI) : the added value of caring ontology in nursing research / Chantal Cara [Canada]
• Collaborative action research and evaluation (care) : relational inquiry for promoting caring science literacy / Marcia Hills [Canada]
• Spirituality and nursing : United States and Ukraine / Gayle Casterline [Heuristics: Ukraine and US]
• Seeing the person through the patient : a human caring reference model for health care and research / Sandra Vacchi [Italy]
• Practices of caring : a South African perspective / Charlene Downing [South Africa]
• A conceptual framework for midwifery in South Africa / Anna Nolte [South Africa]
• Caritas for society's safe-keepers : upholding human dignity and caring / Joseph Giovanonni [US]
• Giving voice through caritas nursing / Maryanne T. Sandberg [US]
• Caring practices in an era of conflict : Middle East nurses / Julie Benbenishty [Israel]
• Japanese caritas for peace and change / Mayumi Tsutsui [Japan]
• Caritas arts for healing / Mary Rockwood Lane [US].

• Introduction : context for theory development
• Nursing as human caring science
• Human caring in nursing
• Nature of human caring and caring values in nursing
• Nursing and metaphysics
• Nature of human life as subject matter of nursing
• Theory components and definitions
• Transpersonal caring relationship
• Structural overview of Watson's theory of human care
• Methodology : reconsidered
• Transcendental or depth phenomenology and poetic results: an exemplar.

Human Caring Science: A Theory of Nursing, Second Edition by renowned nurse theorist Jean Watson discusses the balance between science and caring that forms the basis of the nursing profession. Watson's Theory of Human Care draws from Western and Eastern philosophers, approaching the human care relationship as a moral concept. Further, it seeks to elucidate the human care process in nursing, preserve humanity and the inner life of patients, and reintroduce true caring and healing into educational and clinical practices. Thoroughly revised and updated, each chapter provides fresh insights and contemporary thinking making it accessible to undergraduates as well as graduates and practicing nurses. This Second Edition also includes a new research chapter with the latest empirical work on assessing and measuring caring, examples of practice models, and multi-site research.--Publisher website.

• Caring science : curriculum revolutions and detours along the way
• Beliefs and assumptions : the hidden drivers of curriculum development
• Emancipatory pedagogy : the transformation of consciousness through relational inquiry
• Creating caring relationships : collaboration, power, and participation
• Engaging in critical caring dialogue
• Critical reflection-in-action (praxis) : emancipatory action
• Creating a culture of caring
• Curriculum structure and design
• Evolution of a caring-based college of nursing / Anne Boykin, Theris A. Touhy, and Marlaine C. Smith
• Caring-human science philosophy in nursing education : beyond the curriculum revolution / Sheila Lewis, Martha Rogers, and Rahel Naef
• Caring in advance practice education : a new view of the future / Mary Enzman Hines
• Introduction to caring as a pedagogical approach to nursing education / Mary Rockwood Lane and Michael Samuels
• Teaching-learning professional caring based on Jean Watson's theory of human caring / Kathleen L. Sitzman
• Connoisseurship : an alternative approach to evaluation
• Reflecting and re-visioning : bringing the heart and mind together.

Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its reemergence as a powerful presence within nursing. Unit II introduces intellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approaches for faculty-student relations, teaching/learning skills, emancipatory pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creative approaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. The third unit addresses curriculum structure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, the philosophy of caring-human science, caring in advanced practice education, caring as a pedagogical approach to nursing education, and teaching-learning professional caring based on Watson's theory of human caring. Unit IV explores an alternative approach to evaluation. The final unit explores the future of the caring science curriculum as a way of emancipating the human spirit, with caritas nursing as a transformative model. --Book Jacket.

• Introduction: measuring caring
• Caring and nursing science: contemporary discourse
• Background and selection of caring instruments
• CARE-Q and CARE/SAT and modified CARE-Q
• Caring behaviors inventory and new version. Caring behaviors inventory for elders
• Caring behaviors assessment tool
• Caring behaviors of nurses scale
• Professional caring behaviors
• Nyberg caring assessment scale
• Caring ability inventory
• Caring behavior checklist and client perception of caring scale
• Caring assessment tools and the CAT-admin
• Peer group caring interaction scale and organizational climate for caring questionnaire
• Caring efficacy scale
• Holistic caring inventory
• Caring dimensions inventory
• Caring attributes, professional self-concept, and technological influences scale
• Caring professional scale
• Methodist health care system nurse caring instrument
• Relational caring questionnaires
• Family caring inventory
• Nurse-patient relationship questionnaire
• Caring behaviors inventory-short form
• Caring nurse-patient interactions scale
• Caring factor survey
• The evolution of measuring caring: moving toward construct validity
• Postscript: thoughts on caring theories and instruments for measuring caring.

"Thi book provides all the essential research tools for assessing and measuring carlng for those in the caring professions, Watson's text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of instruments for such measurement in clinical and educational nursing research. The measurements address quality of care; patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring; and caring behaviors, abilities, and efficacy." "Newly updated, this edition also contalns three new chapters, which document the most effective caring language and provide innovative methods of selecting appropriate tools for measurement based on validity and reliability." "Key features of new edition: A chapter providing a comprehensive literature review of the research and. measurement of caring; a chapter entitled "Caring Factor Survey," which presents a new scale based on Watson's original theory of human caring; chapters outlining instruments for care measurement, including the Holistic Caring Inventory, Peer Group Caring Interaction Scale, and many more."--Jacket.

• pt. 1. Background
• pt. 2. Caring science as context
• pt. 3. From carative factors to caritas processes
• pt. 4. Expanding knowledge-building frameworks for reconsidering caritas nursing: the energetic chakra-quadrant model
• pt. 5. Health, healing, humanity, and heart-centered knowing for caritas nursing
• pt. 6. Critiquing nursing education
• Addenda.

• CD tracks: Caritas meditation featuring the spoken messages of Jean Watson & the music of Gary Malkin: Caritas meditation
• Caritas prayer
• The caring moment
• Music meditation : letting yourself be loved.

"Jean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new edition offers a contemporary update and the most current perspectives on the evolution of the original philosophy and science of caring from the field's founding scholar. A core concept for nurses and the professional and non-professional people they interact with, 'care' is one of the field's least understood terms, enshrouded in conflicting expectations and meanings. Although its usages vary among cultures, caring is universal and timeless at the human level, transcending societies, religions, belief systems, and geographic boundaries, moving from Self to Other to community and beyond, affecting all of life. This new edition reflects on the universal effects of caring and connects caring with love as the primordial moral basis both for the philosophy and science of caring practices and for healing itself. It introduces Caritas Processes, offers centering and mediation exercises on an included audio CD, and provides other energetic and reflective models to assist students and practitioners in cultivating a new level of Caritas Nursing in their work and world." -- Publisher's website.

• Original text on caring science
• Transpersonal caring and unitary views of science
• Extant caring theories as metaphysical, meta-ethical, meta-narrative to guide caring science
• Existential crisis in science and human sciences: continuing journey toward caring science
• Working assumptions for caring science
• Metaphysics and science: can there be a re/union?

• A contemporary case for moral-metaphysics ground for caring science: approaching the holy and the sacred
• The ethical demand: Knud Logstrup: holding other in our hands
• Caring and science: a contemporary orientation
• Caring science as disciplinary foundation for health sciences
• Professional/personal remembering
• Evolving consciousness: caring and cosmic love as a universal field
• Love and the heart's code?: emerging field of cardio-energetics and heart-centered living
• Holding holy space in our face, hands and heart
• From "facing our humanity" to "faces of water": artistic reflections revealing how different states of consciousness affect our world
• Metaphysical-ontological mandala for a caring science wheel of knowledge
• Re-patterning self for caring-healing
• Personal remembering: practicing personal forgiveness, gratitude, surrendering
• Human evolving for caring science and healing.

• Transpersonal nursing as ontological archetype
• Transpersonal nursing as ontological artist
• Transpersonal nursing as ontological architect.

This book blends the technical aspects of modern medicine with the holistic focus traditionally associated with nursing, and serves as a model for nursing practice into the 21st century.