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patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...
today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...
adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...
Olsen, 2006). The authors recognized that within the scope of nursing theory, the paradigms can relate to either the practical nu...
and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...
point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...
addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...
19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...
with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...
background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...
change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...
include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...
caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...
leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...
higher nurse-to-patient ratios suffer an increased rate of burnout and experience greater dissatisfaction with their jobs. In resp...
diabetic education that uses the Neuman Systems Model, which supports and facilitates taking a "holistic view of people with diabe...
more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...
by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...
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...
discipline of nursing (Wilkerson, 1998). Examination of nursing theory shows that, on a fundamental level, nursing theories provid...
expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...