YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Nursing Theorists
Essays 541 - 570
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...
Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...
task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...
quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...
individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...
include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...
information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...
many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...
York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...
concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...
potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...
secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...
to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...
illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...
the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...
nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...
supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...
patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...
background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...
percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...
in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...
of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...
Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...
ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...
In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...
backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...
and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...