Pamela Brink Nursing Books
Patientology Toward the Study of Patients
"Patientology: Toward the Study of Patients" is an in-depth look at how the patient is an integral part of the Health Care Delivery System (HCDS). The previous statement may be an odd one; of course, patients are pivotal to the industry, but they are being ignored and disregarded in alarming numbers. In fact, patients do not even appear in organizational charts—they are merely assumed to exist. When author and doctor Pamela Brink studied victimology in the 1970s, she quickly saw the relevance to her own patient and nursing experiences as well as the comparison of patients to victims in her studies. This includes an infinite number of stories that show patients' wishes being deliberately ignored or overturned. This unique look at an often-ignored aspect of the HCDS focuses on the science of Patientology, the classification of a patient, the patient's role in the health care system, and much more. The main area of research must be what we can learn from the study of patients themselves.
An Academic Nurse's Tale
Looking back, author Pamela J. Brink never really wanted to be a nurse, but when she was in high school, she couldn’t think of any other career for women she felt drawn to. She was expected to go to college, but she had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. In An Academic Nurse’s Tale, Brink narrates her story, telling how her choice turned out to be a perfect one.
She began her nursing career in the 1950s, and it spanned the most turbulent times in nursing education in the United States. Brink documents the times, offering a glimpse of the remarkably interesting period in the development of education, research, theory, and skills. She also presents a look at the ever-changing aspects of academic nursing.
An Academic Nurse’s Tale gives firsthand insight into the versatility of a nursing career and describes the interesting, challenging, and rewarding aspects of the profession.
Advanced Design in Nursing Research
This Second Edition of the bestselling Advanced Design in Nursing Research has been substantially revised and reorganized.
Using the principle that the level of knowledge available on a research topic determines the level of design that can be used to study the topic, the contributors present discussions of research at three levels of design: theoretically based experimental designs; comparative and correlated survey designs; and exploratory-descriptive research designs.
Strengths and weaknesses of each design in sampling, methods, reliability, validity, data analysis and issues related to human subjects are addressed. Contributors also discuss writing and evaluating proposals.
Transcultural Nursing
Transcultural Nursing: A Book of Readings is a collection of published articles by nurses, anthropologists and graduate students in nursing. The purpose of the book is to offer original content to inform nursing practice with patients of different cultures. Taken from the perspective of the nursing process, the organization of the book stresses what nurses need to know to do a nursing assessment then plan an appropriate nursing intervention.
Published at a time when nurses were pursuing doctoral degrees in anthropology, the intent was to bring anthropological insights to nursing within a cultural context. Articles explored the similarities between nursing and anthropology, methods pf anthropological research compatible with the nursing process, theoretical insights and problem solving examples of working with a patient from a culture distinctly different than the nurse's. The end of the book includes articles proposing nursing interventions that include an analysis of the cultural differences between the patient and the health care system and how to work within these differences to achieve results.
The book was an attempt to interest more nurses to take a course in introductory anthropology as part of their undergraduate education. An understanding of the biological differences in races, language barriers, beliefs and customs surrounding health and illness, and general difference in world views might reduce the mistakes nurses make in dealing with people of other cultures.
