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

transcendence is moving beyond the meaning moment with what is not-yet. Moving beyond is propelling with envisioned (Parse, 1998, ...

to the "unique ways of originating" while "in the process of transforming" (Cody, 2008). There is innate tension in the need for t...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

interested in the profession and since that time has done a great deal. Not only did she become a nurse, but achieving a doctorate...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

who often preferred pure science over such an approach. These past perceptions, however, should not sway the student from a deter...

Stimulus for developing of the students personal philosophy The process of nursing education exposes students to diverse clinical...

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

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...

In eight pages this paper examines advanced nursing practices through an application of the theory by Rosemarie Parse. Five sourc...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

Theories regarding management, finance, human resources, and so forth change as time goes by. Organizations have become are more c...

followed this by subjecting any hypotheses generated to elaborate and vigorous tests for validity and error. But from the sixties ...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

nervous breakdown following the death of his father, thereafter Weber became a hospital administrator, which obviously further inf...

There are dozens of nursing theories that have been developed over decades. Each has its own value and each is beneficial for nurs...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...