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There is an international epidemic of overweight, obese, and morbidly obese adults and children. Programs that would be successful...

This paper is basically about nurse leadership. A scenario was presented in which a nurse director needed to present a new annual ...

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...

is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...

discipline of nursing (Wilkerson, 1998). Examination of nursing theory shows that, on a fundamental level, nursing theories provid...

the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...

view as well, developing theories of nursing that focus on nursing and its components as systems of varying degrees. Some, such a...

Olsen, 2006). The authors recognized that within the scope of nursing theory, the paradigms can relate to either the practical nu...

the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...

2003). Since the Gestalt therapist limits this sort of interpretation, this facilitates meeting the needs of clients who have cult...

the concept of paying it forward. Praying forward is that act of doing something kind or helpful for someone else, they, in turn, ...

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

choice will be made between the alternatives (Elton et al, 2002). There may be situations where there is certainty of outcome. Thi...

The process of successful change was observed by Lewin as occurring in three stages; unfreezing, change and refreezing (Lewin, 195...

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

diabetic education that uses the Neuman Systems Model, which supports and facilitates taking a "holistic view of people with diabe...

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

A 3 page research paper that compares and contrasts the way in which nursing theorists Hildegard Peplau, Dorothea Orem, and Betty ...

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

the mid- to late-1960s. Burns identified the difference between transactional and transformational leadership theories. In 1968, B...