Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Sciences 3rd Edition

Watson’s Caring Science Guide

Kathleen Sitzman, Jean Watson
Springer Publishing
416 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0826195418
March 2019

This text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of validated and reliable instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing and health professions research. These measurements address quality of care; patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring; and caring behaviors, abilities, and efficacy. The third edition is updated throughout and includes a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring. It features several new tools and instruments, and updates all established tools and instruments to reflect how each has been used in the past ten years.