Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Sciences: Watson’s Caring Science Guide, Third Edition

Kathleen Sitzman PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF (Author) Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN (Editor) Third Edition March 28, 2019, Springer Sitzman & Watson This book provides all the essential research tools for assessing and measuring caring for those in the caring professions. Watson's text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of instruments for care 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. New to the Third Edition: Includes a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring Updates all instruments and tools to reflect how each has been used in the past ten years Presents new instruments including “Student Perceptions of Caring Online” Offers an updated section dedicated to challenges and future directions of the measurement of caring Provides new chapter on assessing and measuring caring in digital