Evaluating Nursing Interventions: A Theory-Driven Approach
Author: Carrie Jo Braden
At last, a book that offers not only an overall perspective of nursing intervention and outcome research but also theory-driven guidelines for future study. Evaluating Nursing Interventions provides clinicians and students alike with a clear explanation of the problems encountered in outcomes and intervention research and then proceeds, via the Intervention Theory, to show how these studies can be undertaken reasonably and comprehensively. The authors first relate outcomes and interventions research to the quality of care. They then review the conventional approach to evaluation and the elements and sources of the Intervention Theory approach to effectiveness research. Characteristics of clients and health care professionals, intervention variables, and outcomes are also considered, concluding with implications for future research in effectiveness.
Nurses and other health professionals recognize the need to demonstrate that their care is high quality, effective, and also cost-effective; Evaluating Nursing Interventions helps them evaluate their programs to meet this need.
Gayle J. Acton
This book presents the argument that intervention effectiveness research should be theory driven in order to develop and expand clinically relevant knowledge. The authors maintain that traditional outcomes evaluation provides a narrow understanding of the effects of an intervention on an outcome and fails to analyze the mechanisms linking the intervention to the outcome. It also does not take into consideration the potential influence of extraneous variables on the outcomes. Further, the authors argue that this information is needed in order to prescribe interventions correctly and apply them successfully in everyday practice. The purpose of the book is to critically analyze the factors influencing the effectiveness of an intervention in producing the desired outcomes, to examine their impact on the validity of the study conclusions, to determine the role of theory in examining these factors, and to discuss strategies for dealing with these factors. The authors propose theory-driven evaluation as a way to develop better, more clinically relevant interventions for nursing practice. The book is aimed at students, researchers, and clinicians and all could greatly benefit from the information contained in the book, especially students and researchers. The overall design of the book is pleasing. The text is well written and easy to understand. The chapters are well organized and contain tables and figures of important information that are helpful to the reader. This book is organized around the factors that could influence the effectiveness of intervention outcomes that can be addressed by intervention theory. Chapters cover traditional outcomes methodologies, reviewing their strengths andweaknesses. The theory-driven approach to effectiveness research is described and illustrated. Next, factors related to clients' effect on interventions is addressed and intervenor and setting-related factors are examined. Also covered are the difficulties of measuring process variables and the importance of selecting outcome variables that are sensitive to the intervention being tested. The authors of the book make a very credible argument that intervention research must move from causal connection to causal explanation, arguing that a theory-driven approach is needed to make this transition. This is an excellent book and one that is highly recommended to those engaged in intervention research.
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Reviewer: Gayle J. Acton, PhD, RNC (University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing)
Description: This book presents the argument that intervention effectiveness research should be theory driven in order to develop and expand clinically relevant knowledge. The authors maintain that traditional outcomes evaluation provides a narrow understanding of the effects of an intervention on an outcome and fails to analyze the mechanisms linking the intervention to the outcome. It also does not take into consideration the potential influence of extraneous variables on the outcomes. Further, the authors argue that this information is needed in order to prescribe interventions correctly and apply them successfully in everyday practice.
Purpose: The purpose of the book is to critically analyze the factors influencing the effectiveness of an intervention in producing the desired outcomes, to examine their impact on the validity of the study conclusions, to determine the role of theory in examining these factors, and to discuss strategies for dealing with these factors. The authors propose theory-driven evaluation as a way to develop better, more clinically relevant interventions for nursing practice.
Audience: The book is aimed at students, researchers, and clinicians and all could greatly benefit from the information contained in the book, especially students and researchers.
Features: The overall design of the book is pleasing. The text is well written and easy to understand. The chapters are well organized and contain tables and figures of important information that are helpful to the reader.
Assessment: This book is organized around the factors that could influence the effectiveness of intervention outcomes that can be addressed by intervention theory. Chapters cover traditional outcomes methodologies, reviewing their strengths and weaknesses. The theory-driven approach to effectiveness research is described and illustrated. Next, factors related to clients' effect on interventions is addressed and intervenor and setting-related factors are examined. Also covered are the difficulties of measuring process variables and the importance of selecting outcome variables that are sensitive to the intervention being tested. The authors of the book make a very credible argument that intervention research must move from causal connection to causal explanation, arguing that a theory-driven approach is needed to make this transition. This is an excellent book and one that is highly recommended to those engaged in intervention research.
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Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States
Author: Teresa L Amott
((Updated with the latest [economic] data, this is the best history of the histories of [women] and the US economy. "a lovely detailed, richly textured history of American working women" Barbara Ehrenreich [labor] [radical politics]
Table of Contents:
| List of Tables | ||
| List of Figures | ||
| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works: A Conceptual Framework | 11 |
| Ch. 3 | I Am the Fire of Time: American Indian Women | 31 |
| Ch. 4 | The Soul of Tierra Madre: Chicana Women | 63 |
| Ch. 5 | Whatever Your Fight, Don't Be Ladylike: European American Women | 95 |
| Ch. 6 | We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: African American Women | 141 |
| Ch. 7 | Climbing Gold Mountain: Asian American Women | 193 |
| Ch. 8 | Yo Misma Fui Mi Ruta: Puerto Rican Women | 257 |
| Ch. 9 | The Growth of Wage Work | 291 |
| Ch. 10 | The Transformation of Women's Wage Work | 317 |
| Ch. 11 | Seeking Beyond History | 355 |
| Notes | 363 | |
| App A: United States Census Sources | 403 | |
| App B: Definitions of Major Occupational Categories | 408 | |
| App C: Labor Force Participation Rates, 1900-1980, and Share of Families Which Were Female-Headed, 1960-1980 | 412 | |
| App D: Some Problems of Comparability Between Census Years | 414 | |
| Index | 416 |
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