YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nursing Theory and Pain Management
Essays 631 - 660
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). From this perspective,...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...
19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...
While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...
In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...
discipline of nursing (Wilkerson, 1998). Examination of nursing theory shows that, on a fundamental level, nursing theories provid...
of fulfilling desires of order. Orem also sees the family as a relational concept (Taylor, 2001, p. 7). It only exists because o...
the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...
the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...
Olsen, 2006). The authors recognized that within the scope of nursing theory, the paradigms can relate to either the practical nu...
is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...
The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...
expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...
unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...
point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...
many of the same ideas as do his earlier counterparts, espousing the need for an overall quest for ultimate peace and contentment....
(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...
begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...
A 3 page research paper that compares and contrasts the way in which nursing theorists Hildegard Peplau, Dorothea Orem, and Betty ...
necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...
view as well, developing theories of nursing that focus on nursing and its components as systems of varying degrees. Some, such a...
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...
but that is not true. They set goals that are challenging but achievable. The goals influence their effort and ability (Accel-Trea...
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...