Person-centred Nursing Research: Methodology, Methods and Outcomes Paperback / softback

This book is the first ever to offer a contemporary collection of different perspectives on person-centredness in international doctoral nursing research.

The research in the book is based on the ideas and values of personhood and person-centeredness, which have been used and can be seen to guide research approaches, inform research designs and theorize research findings.

Further, a specific framework for person-centred nursing is embedded throughout the research studies presented in the text.

The Person-centred Nursing Framework (PCNF) developed by Brendan McCormack and Tanya McCance in 2010, is recognized as a nursing theory and this book further develops it as a basis for research and for advancing person-centredness in nursing.

The framework informs all stages of the research process, from design through to dissemination.The book is structured into a number of highly engaging chapters written by doctoral candidates, and recently graduated candidates.

The opening and closing chapters, written by the editors, place the subsequent chapters in a global context of person-centredness and nursing.

The potential for person-centred nursing research to be a global movement is recognized and debated.

The subsequent chapters lead readers through philosophical ideas, methodologies and methods whilst also offering reflective and honest insights into learning how to become a person-centred researcher.This field is growing and developing but yet there is no specific book available.

As a result, researchers spend considerable time and effort translating existing research methodologies into person-centred perspectives.

This book fills this gap and acts as a key resource for future nurse researchers.The text is intended for, and benefits nursing doctoral candidates, masters candidates and academic staff who teach and supervise research candidates; it may also appeal to other graduate learners.

The book has international contributions which makes it appealing internationally.