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Nursing Theories, 2005.
This paper examines the nursing theories of Benner and Watson regarding elderly patients.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 9 sources, $ 80.95
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The assignment offers an in depth review of two theories of nursing and the applicability to nursing the elderly. The paper examines each theory as to the content, theory and applicability to nursing the elderly. The paper applies an extension with respect to applying the two theories to a real life situation. The paper explains that the situation involved a personal encounter with a stroke victim.
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"The nursing profession, since the time of Florence Nightingale, has undergone significant change. No longer are nurses simply an extensive of the physician. Today nurses are, in their own right, important caregivers with respect to patient wellness. One of the most important factors promoting the importance of nursing in terms of patient wellness has been the development of favorable theories and educational programs supporting the nurse as an integral part of the patient's wellness program. Although it is of strategic interest to implement initiatives that support professional nursing practice, it is very challenging in the current cost-constrained healthcare environment to maintain professional nursing practice (Ritter-Teitel, 2002)."
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The Nursing Theories of Peplau and Roy, 2007.
This paper compares the nursing theories of Hildegard E. Peplau and Sister Callista Roy.
1,430 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper explains that although the Hildegard E. Peplau's model states that the most important determiner in the patient's health is the interactions between the nurse and the patient; however, there are many aspects of health that are not included within this view. The author points out that Sister Callista Roy's model states that all possible factors affect the patient's health, including the physiological aspects of the patient and the coping mechanisms of the individual. The paper relates that, while Peplau identifies a critical aspect of the nurses' role in the health care of the patient, Roy's model is much more comprehensive in its critical assessment of the factors influencing the health and health care goals of the patient.
Table of Contents:
Objective
Introduction
Nursing Theories of Peplau and Roy
Understanding the Scope of the Models of Peplau and Roy
Summary
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"Within this framework, the nursing practice takes place within a system that is adaptive in nature and includes inherent processes for coping and that functions in a unified nature toward a specific purpose. This system is inclusive of the individual and groups constituted by families, organizations, communities, nations and society as a whole. Inherent within this system are regulating subsystems that maintain adaptation in the four modes within the system which are those of: (1) physiologic - physical; (2) self-concept - group identity, (3) role function; and (4) interdependence."
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Nursing Theories, 2004.
A look at a nursing theory, the Pender Health Promotion Model, and how it could be applied to stop smoking addictions.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper looks at a nursing theory, the Pender Health
Promotion Model, and applies it to a theoretical situation.
It looks at how the model can be used in a program to help people stop smoking. The paper looks at the positive and negative aspects of the theory.
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"The setting for the current program is a rural community in which many of the constituents smoke. The program is designed to address the issue of smoking as an avoidable cause of illness and encourage members of the community to cease the practice. One of the goals of Healthy People is to increase the percentage of primary healthcare workers who routinely advise patients to stop smoking . The Surgeon General of the United States has said that the use of tobacco is the single largest preventable..."
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"Nursing Theories: A Comparison", 2008.
A discussion of Dorothea Orem's self-care deficit theory and Katharine Kolcaba's comfort theory.
1,831 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper relates that the role of a nurse has been redefined to include sub specialties and responsibilities in order to compensate for the shortage of health care professionals. The paper also relates that the very fundamental concepts of nursing, however, still apply to this day. The paper then goes on to discuss the two nursing theories that are at the heart of these concepts: Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory and Katharine Kolcaba's Comfort Theory. The paper states that these two theories have both been ascribed as descriptive of what nursing should be. The paper discusses these two concepts as well as the differences and similarities of both concepts together with the practical application of each of the theories.
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"These two theories speak of the fulfilment of certain needs. These needs must be fulfilled to allow a person to survive or overcome a present predicament. Both discuss on finding a solution to that need. A requisite and a discomfort are the same. It speaks of an inadequacy in one's physical, mental, social, or emotional state. Both are described as one of the foundations of nursing. However, it should be pointed out that self-care theory places responsibility on the very person in need to fulfil that deficit. Self-care behaviours are learned through time, or are innate behaviours. Self-care needs are different from a nurse fulfilling these needs. The role of a nurse in this case is to teach a person how to be self-reliant."
Outline:
Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
Kolcaba's Comfort Theory
Compare and Contrast Theories of Self-care and Comfort
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Nursing Theories Compared, 2004.
Compares theories by Jean Piaget and Jean Watson and how they can be applied to the field of nursing.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses the 'Theory of Human Caring', created by Jean Watson and Jean Piaget's theory on human intellectual development, individually. The paper then compares the two and explains how they can be applied to the nursing industry.
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"In addition to the above basic core ideas of the role of the nurse, Watson also discusses the idea of transpersonal caring relationships. These relationships convey a concern for the world and the spirit of the nurse's patient (Watson, 2000). These relationships help to move the patient beyond their pain and suffering, and allow them to tap into their own healing potential. Watson also discusses the ability of the nurse to use that caring to go beyond the illness and disease, and to focus on the healing and wholeness issues of the patient. As a part of that relationship, there are moments where the nurse and patient bond together and it is that bonding, which is a result of the ten processes above and the transpersonal relationship, which allows the healing of the patient (Watson, 1988)."
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Nursing Theories, 2006.
This paper examines the article "Measuring Nursing Power Within Organizations."
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The writer reviews an article entitled "Measuring Nursing Power Within Organizations," written by Christina L. Sieloff and published in a nursing journal entitled "Journal of Nursing Scholarship." The paper explains the reason for this choice of article, that it is an excellent example of research conducted within the ambit of mid-range nursing theories.
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Fawcett's Nursing Theory, 2001.
An analysis of the nursing theory of Jacqueline Fawcett through the use of case studies.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper looks at Jacqueline Fawcett's framework of analysis and evaluation of conceptual modules of nursing. It attempts to select a specific example as a kind of case study and uses this as an evaluation tool and example throughout the paper. The purpose of Dr. Fawcett?s text is to marry ideas regarding nursing theory with nursing practice and this paper attempts to do so as well, albeit in a much more concentrated format. Nursing theory is supposed to provide aid to nurses through describing and ?controlling? the theoretical framework through which care is provided. This paper assesses Fawcett?s model on those terms.
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"At the beginning of her text, Jacqueline Fawcett traces the historical evolution of the conceptual model of nursing, to the present development of the ?metaparadigm? model of nursing. Unlike previous theoretical models, the metaparadigm model links concepts such as ?person,? ?environment,? ?health,? and ?nursing? from a merely thematic approach, where such concepts are looked at in isolation, to one in which propositions regarding these cornerstones of care are linked as a part of a general model of nursing care. Fawcett relies on the four-pronged approach to the development of nursing knowledge in her model. She labels these four prongs as ?person,? ?environment,? ?health,? and ?nursing.? "
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| Term Paper # 34151 |
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Nursing Research Theory, 2004.
This paper presents a nursing diagram based on the development of a middle-range nursing theory.
1,808 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses the linkage of theory-research and theory practice. The author delineates each level of the theory and provides supportive documentation for all statements, postulates, claims, and other notions central to the presented theory. The paper explores a nursing diagram based on the development of a middle-range nursing theory related to coping with chronic illness.
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"One promising approach to strengthening theory-research and theory-practice linkages is to place greater emphasis on developing and using theories of the middle range to underpin nursing research and practice. The authors define middle range theories as moderately abstract inclusive organized within a limited scope with a limited number of variables, which are testable in a direct manner. The mid-range theories are said to have a stronger relationship with research and practice. This paper presents a nursing ..."
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The Nursing Theory of Hildegard Peplau, 2006.
A review of Hildegard Peplau's theory of nursing.
1,596 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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According to this paper, Hildegard Peplau is a nursing theorist who developed a nursing theory with sensitivity to nurse and patient interaction. The paper discusses how Peplau's theory has often been applied to nursing theory associated with psychiatric nursing but can also be applied to nursing theory with regard to many aspects of the nursing process.
Outline:
Introduction
Peplau's Theory
Application of theory to Hospital Medical Surgery Nursing
Conclusion and Evaluation
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"Within the hospital setting of the practice of medical/surgical nursing practice Peplau's theories can be identified as very helpful in defining the psychosocial role of the nurse and patient in the roles they are prescribed during a hospital stay. During the orientation phase of the theory in medical surgical practice, the nurse and the individual assist one another in discerning the patient's problem and the needs that may arise because of it. During the identification process the nurse and the patient collectively identify with each other, in the roles they play in the given condition and the patient becomes comfortable enough to rely on the nurse to assist them in the needs they cannot meet independently, such as dressing site changes, vitals taking and activities of daily living like bathing and trips to the bathroom to aide the patient in recovery. "
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Two Nursing Theories, 2002.
A comprehensive comparison of selected chapters from Gary Zukav?s "Seat of the Soul" and Martha E. Rogers?s "Science of Unitary Humans Being".
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This paper provides an examination and comparison of Gary Zukav?s "Seat of the Soul" and Martha E. Rogers?s "Science of Unitary Humans Being", including excerpts and appropriate citations. A summary is provided in the conclusion.
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"When Dr. Martha E. Rogers presented her evolutionary nursing model in 1970 with the publication of An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing, it represented a drastic but useful manner of viewing human interaction and the nursing process. According to one Rogerian authority, ?The concept of unitary pattern appreciation is unique to the Science of Unitary Human Beings. It was developed and evolved with the intention of creating a way of doing science and practice from a unitary perspective. It is both a way of knowing from a unitary ontological perspective and an essential attitude toward persons as energy fields? (Cowling, 1989, p. 130 in Madrid)."
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| Term Paper # 105079 |
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The Peplau Nursing Theory, 2002.
A background and explanation on the Peplau theory of nursing.
1,593 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains the theory known as Peplau Nursing. The theory was created by Hildegard Peplau, a nurse whose pioneering theory can be seen in her book "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing". The paper offers a brief background on Peplau herself as well as an explanation of her system whereby nurses are trained and encouraged to develop close personal and psychological relationships with their patients. The paper includes a copy of an actual case study which put the theory to the test.
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"Peplau became a prolific writer, expanding on her theory, which focused on the use of a therapeutic relationship between the nurse and the client, or ?psychodynamic nursing?. Her descriptions of the ?four phases? of this relationship and the six major ?roles? of the nurse led her to numerous positions and awards throughout the country. She retired in 1974 and received numerous honorary doctorates from various universities."
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Nursing and Personality Theory, 2007.
An overview of Erik Erickson's personality theories as applied to nursing.
778 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper presents an examination of personality theories by famed theorist Erik Erickson and looks at how the theory applies to the field of nursing. The paper also explores the theory of locomotor development and explains how it is used in the author's daily profession as a nurse.
Outline:
Introduction
The Theory
Using it in Nursing
Conclusion
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"In the field of pediatric nursing, the understanding of Erickson's personality theory can be extremely useful. Knowing what the theory believes and what the various stages of childhood development entail, provides an excellent backdrop for nurses to be significantly more equipped when it comes to handling their young patients.
When children are seen in the office, it can be a scary and sometimes overwhelming experience for them. If they are between the ages of 2-6, a nurse who understands the locomotor theory of Erickson can use it to help the child feel comfortable and in control of their environment and the medical events of their lives. "
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