Essays 301 - 330
As this writer/tutor can only speculate on what the students personal values are, it is suggested that the student include a state...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...
There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...
drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...
care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...
not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...
has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...
the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...
the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...
This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...
and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...
differences between Orems theories and those of others. The intention of this paper is to work through each of these steps and to...
practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...
clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...