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Nursing and the Use of Family Theories

features of family life; That the families will develop different strengths and capabilities of promoting family growth and develo...

Catheter-Associated UTI Training

This essay offers a scenario teaching nurses and assistant to prevent UTIs associated with catheters. The essay describes the sett...

New Nursing Theory Formulation

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

A Comparison of Two Theories in Nursing Metaparadigm

who often preferred pure science over such an approach. These past perceptions, however, should not sway the student from a deter...

Learning Theories-Nursing Education: Annotated Bibliography

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

Theory Analysis/Peplau

indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and...

Four Nursing Theorists

explain Watsons Caring Theory, including "Caring Science Ten Caritas Processes," "definitions," "Ten Caritas Processes" and more. ...

Middle Range Nursing Theories, An Overview

a profession, nursing theory has responded to meet the needs of nurses. For example, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the foc...

Jokinen's Family Life-Path Theory

also possess knowledge concerning a particular family as a whole, including the intricacies of its family system, the position of ...

Theory of Caring, Kristen M. Swanson

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

Confidentiality and Three Nursing Models

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Levine's Conservation Theory of Nursing

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

Nurse Educator, A Philosophy of Teaching

This statement presents an example paper of how to present a nursing educator's personal philosophy on teaching. The theory of mul...

Culturally Competent Nursing

This paper is divided into related sections and includes a case scenario to which Leininger's transcultural nursing theory is appl...

Six Questions on Nursing Theory Models

general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...

Questions on Nursing Theory

to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

Nursing Wages

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

Lateral Violence in a Nursing Workforce

backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...

Learning Diabetes Self-care

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

Leddy’s Human Energy Model of Nursing

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

Nursing Shortage

information about the shortage of nurses and the consequences. This was achieved as demonstrated in the following brief report of ...

Information on a Quantitative Research Article

In addition to these central variables, the authors also considered other potential factors influencing study outcomes, including ...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Nursing Questions

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Economics and Nursing

(Nellis and Parker, 2000). Elasticity Elasticity of a good is the measure that assess the impact that a change in price will have...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...