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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...

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...

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

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

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...

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...

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...

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...

McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

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...

with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...

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...

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, ...