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different that needs attention, but many have been able to prepare for the changes that are happening to them. Geriatric patients...

relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

at the moment of unconcealedness. She wanted a poet to describe nurses work: not what was visible, such as the emptying of a bedp...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...

relationship (Armstrong, 2009, p320). Process theories place an emphasis on the differences that are found in employees, and inste...

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

bringing awareness of the impact of environmental factors. Nightingale may be argued as held back by her gender due to a social st...

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

This essay offers a scenario teaching nurses and assistant to prevent UTIs associated with catheters. The essay describes the sett...

features of family life; That the families will develop different strengths and capabilities of promoting family growth and develo...

a profession, nursing theory has responded to meet the needs of nurses. For example, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the foc...

This statement presents an example paper of how to present a nursing educator's personal philosophy on teaching. The theory of mul...

also possess knowledge concerning a particular family as a whole, including the intricacies of its family system, the position of ...

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...