The graduate nursing handbook for turning philosophy and theory into something you can actually use in practice and in coursework.

Butts and Rich’s Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice, Fourth Edition, gives advanced practice nurses and graduate students the foundation to build a defensible nursing philosophy of their own. It explains how theory is constructed before asking you to apply it, and draws on nursing models, middle range practice theories and interdisciplinary theory across 750 pages — which is why it ends up cited in so many graduate projects and DNP papers.