Essays 481 - 510
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 ...
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...
paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...
as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...
today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...
staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...
In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...
which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...
adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...
the non-emergency sections of the hospital or when they are in the doctors office or the resident clinic! Heart attacks happen! ...
also point out that "developed countries may not be well served by international nurse recruitment if it prevents them from addres...
just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...
within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...
part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...
as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...