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These theories emphasize the fact that the concept of holism is integrally linked with the goals and objectives of nursing. Holis...
importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...
was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...
addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...
MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...
patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...
and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...
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...
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...
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
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...
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...
This paper discusses Leininger's theory, which outlines the parameters of transcultural nursing. Five pages in length, six sources...
This research paper concerns Jean Watson's theory of human caring and its use within nursing clinical practice. Eleven pages in le...
This paper offers an annotated bibliography that discusses articles on the integration of nursing theory into research studies. Fi...
become stressed and this lowers morale. A nurse manager writes that at her hospital, her job has become overwhelming, but when dis...
grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...
therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...
and case management. Maras shares the leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level, L. McChesney....
theory includes statements such as "Being authentically present, and enabling and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective...
is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...
can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...
From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...