Joanne Duffy’s work in theory-guided caring and issues of quality caring,
in education, practice, and research, spans more than two decades of
scholarship and sustained focus. Her scholarship in this area has deepened
and expanded with each turn of her career, culminating in this comprehensive
book, which demonstrates her unique contributions to this
fi eld of increasing importance. Her book offers a coherent, theoretical,
and research-guided framework for quality nursing caring in practice,
education, and leadership; a foundational, timeless, yet transformative
framework of substance related to caring and quality, for which systems
and society yearn at this point in the history of nursing and health care.