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effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...
point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...
at the moment of unconcealedness. She wanted a poet to describe nurses work: not what was visible, such as the emptying of a bedp...
during an era that rationalized social inequalities. In regards to Environment, Nightingale was changed the course of nursing an...
accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...
the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...
From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...
are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...
adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...
the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...
between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...
client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...
not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...
I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...
view as well, developing theories of nursing that focus on nursing and its components as systems of varying degrees. Some, such a...
the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...
is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...
and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...
In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...
Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...
the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...
Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...
more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...
30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...
caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...
change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...
socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...