The text instills a foundational understanding of the science of self-care and its contribution to contemporary nursing. It describes how this paradigm is gaining recognition as an effective anti-burnout strategy and demonstrates how it can be applied.

Table of Contents

• Foreword - Webber David E., PhD
• About the Authors
• Foreword - Fawcett Jacqueline, PhD, RN, ScD (hon), FAAN
• Preface
• About This Book
• PART I. THE WORLD OF THE NURSE
• Preface
• 1. Nursing: Profession and Discipline
• 2. Health, Well-Being, and Self-Care
• 3. Thinking and Doing Nursing
• 4. The Nursing System
• PART II. THE PRACTICE OF NURSING
• Preface
• 5. Conditioning Factors and Health-Related Self-Care
• 6. The “Why” of Self-Care: Determining the Self-Care Demand
• 7. The “How” of Self-Care: Self-Care Agency
• 8. Nursing Practice Operations: From Diagnosis to Designing the Patient–Nursing System
• 9. Production and Control Operations and Evidence-Based Practice
• PART III. BEYOND THE SELF
• Preface
• 10. Dependent-Care and Collaborative-Care Situations
• 11. Meaning of Family in Nursing
• 12. Community and Nursing
• 13. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Nursing
• 14. Care of Self: A Nursing Imperative
• APPENDICES: NURSING SITUATIONS AND CASE STUDIES
• Preface
• Appendix A: Primary Health Care Clinical Situation
• Appendix B: Child Health Situation
• Appendix C: Mental Health
• Appendix D: Mrs. Smith
• Appendix E: Description of a Population From a Nursing Perspective