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al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

on a global level. Her background was anthropology, which focuses on groups in different areas of the world and it was this focus ...

adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...

today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...

MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...

patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...

McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

large perspective world view. Summing up, three differences between paradigms and models are that paradigms take a broader view of...

can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

with focus point objects for mom to keep her gaze locked on while dad coaches her breathing. Others plan to receive an epidural a...

The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...

become stressed and this lowers morale. A nurse manager writes that at her hospital, her job has become overwhelming, but when dis...

theory includes statements such as "Being authentically present, and enabling and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective...

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

will the organization finance those costs? How will current and future employees view the planned changes? Once senior man...

and case management. Maras shares the leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level, L. McChesney....

importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...

brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...

to meet its own needs. Dorothea Orems Self-Care Framework. Models and Theories of Nursing quotes Polit & Hendersons defini...

on the other hand, is much faster than analysis in that it is based on "immediate recognition of the key elements of a situation a...