This contributed book is based on more than 20 years of researches on
patient individuality, care and services of the continuously changing
healthcare system. It describes how research results can be used to
respond to challenges on individuality in healthcare systems. Service
users’, patients’ or clients’ point of views on care and health services
are urgently needed.

This book describes the conceptualisation
of the individualized nursing care phenomenon and the process
development of the measuring instruments of that phenomenon in different
contexts. It describes results from a variety of clinical contexts
about individualized nursing care and explains factors associated with
the perceptions and delivery of individualized nursing care from
different point of views. This book may appeal to clinicians, nurses
practitioners and researchers from many fields.