Integrating Social Support in Nursing

by Miriam Stewart

This is the first volume on social support from a nursing perspective. The author documents nursing′s contribution to the field and analyzes current conceptual controversies. She emphasizes the necessity for a social support based framework and proposes a psychosocial model of health care delivery that incorporates environment, nursing and health and that regards patients as partners, families as allies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803942737
• ISBN13: 9780803942738
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.4"