Abstract
This paper examines a research article through the use of guide questions with emphasis on the conceptual framework utilized by the study. The paper addresses the conceptual model used in the article, the components of the framework, how the variables were used, congruency of conceptual definitions, as well as a discussion of some findings and definition and framework consistency.

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"This article discusses a proposed framework for educating both undergraduate and graduate nursing students by utilizing simulators and simulations in place of traditional methods of teaching. The author realizes the need for a more suitable teaching style in nursing education that emphasizes student autonomy, student-centered learning and teaching that depicts real-life, clinical situations (Jeffries, 2005). The author..."

Tags:conceptual, frameworks, nursing

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This paper explores the work of conceptual artist Sarah Lucas. It argues that Lucas challenges gender stereotypes and the image of the "anguished male artist." The paper looks at conceptual art as an oppositional process.

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"Sarah Lucas is known for her provocative work. Using mundane objects such as food and furniture, she takes words and images and transforms them into metaphors for sexual objects. Ready-made food and furniture are imbued with new meaning. The innocence of the original object becomes something else entirely. The objects imbued with new meaning carry with them crude and sexual connotations. Sarah Lucas goes against the grain. In addition, through her work that emphasizes the ordinary person in ordinary surroundings she challenges the..."

Tags:Conceptual art, sarah lucas, Got a Salmon On Gender

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This paper looks at PRECEDE-PROCEEED as a conceptual model, describes three concepts within the model and compares its application to the nursing process. In the final section, the paper cites applications of this model of community health problems and concludes by explaining the importance of community partnerships in community health projects.

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"This paper looks at PRECEDE-PROCEEED as a conceptual model and discusses the historical development of the model. Next the author describes three concepts within the model and compares its application to the nursing process. In the final section the paper goes on to cite two applications of this model of community health problems and concludes by explaining the importance of community partnerships in community health projects."

Tags:community, conceptual, model

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The paper looks at how in her article, Miller cites Beninger's assertion that communication should be studied generally in a broad conceptual sense instead of as a narrow discipline. The paper explains her view that this would be beneficial to those who study the concept of communication as the articulation of human relationships as well as to those who also consider internal, cognitive processes as a form of communication.

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"The study of communication is vast and diverse, including a number of different disciplines and poignant opinions. Communication as a social activity, or as the articulation of relationships, is one of these arguments among those who consider themselves scholars in this field. There is also some debate as to whether it is valid and reasonable to study communication using this framework. According to Katherine Miller's article, "Conceptual Foundations," it is difficult to argue this point because communication is not only a study that is fragmented within its own discipline, but is also intrinsically connected to a number of other academic fields. Each of these fields..."

Tags:conceptual, abstract, communication

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This paper defines and discusses conceptual poetics and its reflection of symbolic interactionist thought, a paradigm that emerged after the modernist period in human history. The paper explains that contemporary prose and poetry has always been recognized based on each literature type's ability to convey its message to the reader and communicate this message in an artistic or individualistic manner - that is, the artist's own way of expressing this message with the aid of letters and words. In understanding the link between conceptual poetics and symbolic interactionism, the paper provides further analysis of works categorized under conceptual poetics, of which the writer Kenneth Goldsmith is its primary proponent and advocate. Drawing primarily from his works, "Being Boring," "Uncreativity as Creative Practice," and "Fidget," this paper posits that, conceptual poetics as a new form of literary expression is reflective of symbolic interactionist thought wherein self-expression is a product of all the socio-cultural influences of the individual/writer/artist.

Outline:
Touch point 1: People's actions are derived from what happens around them
Touch point 2: People do not create meanings everyday; instead, we learn the meanings that have been assigned to particular symbols
Touch point 3: Symbolic interactionism draws attention to routine behaviors and makes social order possible
References

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"There are three key messages derived from this explanation of symbolic interactionism: first, that people's actions are derived from what happens around them; second, people do not create meanings everyday, instead, we learn the meanings that have been assigned to particular symbols; and third, it draws attention to routine behaviors and make social order possible. These messages will be the touch points of the analysis of Goldsmith's works. Putting Goldsmith's works under the symbolic interactionist perspective would provide readers an understanding of the interplay between the writer's idea of conceptual poetics and the socio-cultural elements that influenced him and brought about the development of conceptual poetics."

Tags:interactionism, uncreativity, practice

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The paper discusses a report which provides a conceptual model applicable to community health programs. The paper states that a conceptual model based on community capacity is a tool that health providers can use to promote health actions carried out in the healthcare environment and within the community. The paper concludes that when combined with other conceptual models like the health belief models, it is possible theoretically to provide comprehensive care that caters to the needs of individuals in a community and also the community at large.

Outline:
Introduction of Model
Historical Development
Comparison of the Application of the Model to the Nursing Process
Two Applications of the Model to Community Health Problems
How Application of Model Supports Community Partnership/Collaborations with Other Agencies/Programs in Community Health Projects
Conclusions

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"The community capacity model for health promotion and community health programs focuses on developing tools that provide health educators and community the ability to gain access to proper care. Dressendorfer et al, 2005 note the conceptual model of community capacity development can be delineated easily by reviewing thirteen steps or processes related to capacity development. Among these include proper leadership among health care systems and within the community to drive and manage programs, proper policy review and making, so that "diffusions and sustainability" is possible using the model presented, and proper use of available resources within the community to provide information and build an infrastructure for health promotion within the community ."

Tags:healthcare, environment, community

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The paper weights each of Graham T. Allison's three conceptual models against the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the models. The paper explains the rational policy model, the organizational processes model and the bureaucratic politics model. The paper concludes that because the war is a subject of such recent history, and a variety of debates exist as to its actual cause, the conceptual models prove extremely useful in organizing and evaluating many of the war's proposed motivations. The writer of the paper therefore is of the view that although they were conceived over three decades ago, Allison's conceptual models remain relevant to today's foreign policy world.

Outline:
Introduction
Rational Policy Model
Organizational Processes Model
Bureaucratic Politics Model
Evaluation and Conclusion

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"In 1969, Harvard University's Graham T. Allison revolutionized foreign policy with his American Political Science Review article, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis," creating three theoretical models that are still widely references in international relations theory today: Rational Policy Model, Organizational Process Model, and Bureaucratic Politics Model. While some have heeded the models as infallible, others have suggested their need for reconditioning. In their 1992 study, Jonathan Bendor of Stanford University and Thomas H. Hammond of Michigan State University found that "the models require substantial reformation" by subjecting them to a "systematic critical analysis" (301). Other scholars, like Andrew Farkas, have considered one of Allison's models--in his case Rational Actor Model--and critiqued the model based on other factors, such as psychological data (343)."

Tags:rational, policy, organizational, processes, bureaucratic, politics

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The paper discusses the changes in the proposed Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) conceptual framework development initiative. The paper explains that the changes aim to bring coordination between both the FASB and IASB conceptual frameworks and also to bring the individual organization's frameworks into line with their set standards.

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"The FASB report entitled Selected Issues Relating to Assets and Liabilities with Uncertainties was based on a joint 2004 project between FASB and IASB with the purpose of improving the organization's conceptual framework. The areas of improvements generally focus on establishing objectives for better financial reporting by creating qualitative characteristics to be used when conducting financial reporting. The main area of interest in the report is assets and liabilities, primarily the role of probability and uncertainty in defining, recognizing and measuring assets and liabilities."

Tags:assets, liabilities, uncertainties

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This paper discusses how pain is a global problem that affects all people during their life and how poorly treated pain is a major concern for the millions of Americans currently suffering with pain. It looks at how heath care strives to deliver optimal care and treat patients effectively and how the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has developed pain management quality standards that must be implemented by all health care organizations to be accredited. It shows how providers need help to integrate these standards for optimal pain management and how conceptual models developed by nursing theorists can be useful tools to guide clinical practice. In particular, it explores Orem's Self-Care Framework, Neuman's System Model, and Roy's Adaptation Model as examples of conceptual models that can be used to analyze possible approaches to solving health care problems and clinical concerns.

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"Roy's Model guides pain management with a nursing process, which includes a behavioral assessment, a stimuli assessment, nursing diagnosis, goal setting, plans for implementation, and evaluation. Each step takes into consideration the patient's perceptions and desires into account. Behavioral assessment is completed keeping in mind the four modes of adaptation. The four modes of adaptation are physiological, self-concept, role function, and interdependence. This allows for a systematic and holistic approach in recognizing the patients' right to proper pain assessment. In the physiological mode, a thorough assessment investigates the underlying disease process of the pain. Once treatment is implemented for the illness or injury causing pain, the focus moves into the actual elimination of pain."

Tags:self, care, framework, system, model, adaptation

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This paper discusses nursing theorists, Walker and Avant's conceptual theory in nursing. Specifically, the paper details eight steps to a more effective concept analysis of "screening" for nurses in theory and practice. It describes the relevance of each step and the ways that they should be implemented for the most successful screening and treatment.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Step 1
Selecting a concept
"Screening"
Step 2
Purpose Or Aims Of The Concept
Step 3
Identify Uses Of The Concept
Step 4
Determine the Defining Attributes
Step 5
Identify A Model Case
Step 6
Examine Other Cases
Step 7
Identify Antecedents and Consequences
Step 8
Define Empirical Referents

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"An "invented" case of such a problematic screening, however, one that may or may not contain ideas outside of the experience of many nurses, however, might be that of a mother who brought her infant in for a routine screening by a pediatrician, and who volunteered to the nurse, without the prompting of a screening, the fact that she was depressed or had trouble coping. Then, if the nurse broached the subject in a more formal fashion, according to some of the language that is used to characterize the physical and emotional problems of screening for postpartum depression, the mother might reject such a diagnostic inquiry. This is problematic, because the nurse may or may not be qualified to make such a psychological assessment, even though she, by virtue of her position, might be led to believe that the woman is suffering from postpartum depression."

Tags:compliance, antecedents, ailment