Peter Draper

Nursing Perspectives on Quality of Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the fundamental aims of nursing is to safeguard or promote patients' "quality of life." "Perspectives on Quality of Life" 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. Part One provides an analysis of statistical approaches to quality of life, including social indicators, the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY), and the medical outcomes literature. Part Two proposes an alternative, qualitative approach to organizing care, which respects the patients' choice and individuality. Part three presents the findings of new research into the quality of life of older people in hospital wards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 162mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780415141697
• ISBN-10: 0415141699
• Artikelnr.: 21399970

Autorenporträt

Peter Draper is Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Hull

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I The concept of quality of life and its use in health
research 1 Introducing quality of life 2 Social indicators of quality of
life 3 The quality adjusted life year (QALY) 4 Quality of life and medical
research 5 The social scientific approach to quality of life: positivism
and it limits Part II Quality of life and nursing practice: philosophy and
methods 6 The case for a nursing approach to quality of life 7
Hermeneutics: a philosophical basis for the study of quality of life Part
III Quality of life: a nursing perspective 8 Research decisions 9 Being at
home: the relationship of places and personal possessions to quality of
life 10 Being an individual 11 Organising care to promote quality of life
12 Conclusion: quality of life and its contribution to nursing practice