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Pain and Three Nursing Conceptual Models, 2004.
An examination of the concept of pain in the clinical area and how to adhere to JCAHO's standards using conceptual models from Orem, Neuman, and Roy.
3,103 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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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."
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The Conceptual Model of Nursing, 2002.
Presents an analysis of Sister Calista Roy's conceptual model for nursing, usually referred to as the adaptation model.
2,305 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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The nursing philosophy or model of Sister Calista Roy focuses on the individual (person) as a biopsychosocial adaptive system. According to Roy, nursing is a discipline that emphasizes strengthening, expanding and improving upon the person's coping abilities for the purpose of enhancing the patient's wellness or health. This paper describes the theory and provides reasons for why it was chosen for review and analysis. The paper then goes on to discuss the development, meaning, logical adequacy, usefulness, completeness and testability of the adaptation model.
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"It should be understood that the Roy Adaptation Model attempts nothing less than that of providing a theoretical framework for use by educators, researchers, and practitioners, for the purpose of validating a scientific foundation for nursing as a profession. This is, at best, an extremely challenging task and, as might be expected, the model has not only been refined and expanded upon many times, further expansion and refinement is expected in the future (Roy, 1997). In general, it must be noted that there is a need for intense study of the language and ideas behind Roy's Adaptation Model to fully understand it."
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Pain Management & Nursing, 1997.
Research proposal to assess conventional & advanced pain management techniques. Examines types of pain & alternative treatments from nursing perspective.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 10 sources, $ 55.95
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"ADVANCED PAIN MANAGEMENT & ACUTE CARE NURSING
Problem Statement
Conventional post-operative pain management protocols and practices rely heavily on nurse-administered opioids, patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), and skin patches (?Pain relief,? 1997, p. 4). Opioid analgesics include codeine, morphine, and other narcotics. PCA pumps allow a patient to administer her or his own medication. A portable, computerized pump containing medicine is attached to a small needle placed in a vein or under the skin. When a patient feels pain, the patient presses a button on the pump that delivers a preset, safe dose of medication. Skin patches release a steady dose of medication into the skin over days, with no need for frequent dosing. After applying the patch there is a lag time of about twelve hours be.."
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Community Conceptual Model, 2008.
A discussion of the social ecological model with particular focus on health issues in the baby boomer generation.
1,255 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines the social ecological approach and community intervention with regards to the baby boomer generation. The paper points out that the social ecological approach focuses on various factors, which may affect the health of the members of the baby boomer community. The paper also explores how this approach conoirms to the nursing process. It concludes that the social ecological model aptly illustrates how baby boomers are located in and affected by social, economic, and political systems, which determine their access to resources and their behavior that may be either conducive or detrimental to maintaining health.
Outline:
Introduction
The Social Ecological Model
Community Intervention
Social Structure, Policy, and Systems Spheres of Influence
Model Application to Nursing Process
Community-based Partnership
Conclusion
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"The ecological approach initially was designed during the 1920s and 1930s at the University of Chicago's sociology department to explain urban social change and especially changing rates of crime. Robert Park and Ernest Burgess originated the approach which was based upon the study of plant ecosystems since plants and animals exist in mutual harmony and in a state of interdependence. The social ecological approach was developed in the Laboratory of Social Ecology at Stanford University in 1984."
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Back Pain in Nurses, 2005.
An assessment of the prevalence of lower back pain among nurses.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This is a community health related assessment concerning the issue of low back pain among nurses. After a review of the prevalence of the disorder, the paper includes a comprehensive assessment examining biophysical, psychological, physical, socio-cultural, behavioral and healthcare system implications related to the problem. A critical analysis and community nursing diagnosis is also provided.
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"According to the US Department of Health (Brown, 2003) every day approximately 9,000 healthcare workers become disabled through injury on the job. Worker's compensation claims for healthcare workers related to back injuries are approximately $1.7 billion (Goldsmith, 2001) based on an injury frequency of 1 in 10 work related back injuries ending up with an injured nurse. According to Hedge (n.d.), the rate of injury to nurses is approximately twice that for all industries combined. Approximately 12% of nurses leave the profession each year due to back pain and back related injuries (ANA President Barbara Blakeney, 2004 as cited in "ANA Launches," 2004)."
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Conceptual Theory in Nursing, 2007.
An analysis of conceptual theory in nursing, with regards to screening procedures, as set down by theorists L.O. Walker and K.C. Avant.
2,220 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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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."
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Nursing Models, 2002.
Examines the importance of testing nursing theories and models in primary health care and mental health.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 16 sources, $ 71.95
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Conceptual models can influence clinical nursing practice via guidelines provided. Nursing practice promises data that can be used to actively test conceptual models. Particular reference is made to mental health care provision, often in non-Western settings.
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Adaptation Model of Nursing, 2000.
A definition and analysis of the development, logic, usefulness and testability of this model which focuses on the individual as a biopsychosocial system.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 15 sources, $ 79.95
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This paper presents an analysis of Sister Calista Roy's conceptual model for nursing, usually referred to as the adaptation model. The analysis describes the theory and provides reasons for why it was chosen for review and analysis. The paper then goes on to discuss the development, meaning, logical adequacy, usefulness, completeness, and testability of the adaptation model.
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"Concept Analysis Paper
Introduction
This paper presents an analysis of Sister Calista Roy's conceptual model for nursing, usually referred to as the adaptation model. The analysis describes the theory and provides reasons for why it was chosen for review and analysis. The paper then goes on to discuss the development, meaning, logical adequacy, usefulness, completeness, and testability of the adaptation model.
Description of Theory and Reason for choosing
The nursing philosophy or model of Sister Calista Roy (see: Roy, 1997) focuses on the individual (person) as a biopsychosocial adaptive system. According to Roy (1997) nursing is a discipline that emphasizes strengthening, expanding, and..."
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Nurses and Pain Management, 2004.
Examines the pain management strategies that could be employed by nurses towards alleviating pain in a variety of patients.
2,578 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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The first part of this paper examines the background and reviews the current literature regarding pain management. The next part then examines the key pain management issues and the pros and cons of establishing pain management standards.The paper then examines these proposed guidelines from a nursing viewpoint in line with the 2001 Code of Ethics, as well as the ANA's "Nursing's agenda for the future." Next, the paper addresses how a proposed set of pain management guidelines affects nursing practices and the practice of health care, in general. In the last section, the paper makes further recommendations on how pain management strategies could be tailored to facilitate the practice of nursing.
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"Pain management takes a backseat in a variety of medical specialties. Tanabe and Buschmann (1999), for example, found that 78 percent of patients experience severe pain in the emergency room. Furthermore, clinicians often followed a standard pain treatment program that did not take into account the severity of an individual patient's pain. As a result, many patients did not receive adequate pain medication, despite the availability of pharmacologic solutions."
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Nursing and Obstetrical Nursing Curricula, 2006.
A look at the organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at nursing and obstetrical nursing and investigates what agencies police and design the curricula for these fields. The State Boards of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission are examined and the policies and standards that they set are discussed as well as the required curriculum content and development they oversee. Their impact upon curriculum development and revision is also reviewed.
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"In the arena of nursing, there are so many specialties, so many fields, so many types of nurses, that there must be governing and regulatory bodies. Without such organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs, there would not be a singular and uniform set of expectations for this nation's nursing professionals. The two organizations that will be discussed in regard to how they influence the regulation of nursing, and more specifically how they could influence obstetrical nursing, are the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). The first of the two governing agencies that this paper will discuss and investigate is the NCSBN."
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Director of Nursing in Nursing Home, 1999.
Examines issues affecting this position & role. Examines the economics of the institute, restructuring, responsibilities, quality of care and staffing.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 14 sources, $ 47.95
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"DONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY NURSING HOME ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
This research examines some of the issues affecting the position and role of the Director of Nursing (DON) in contemporary nursing home environments. DONs are experiencing increasing difficulties in their attempts to fulfill their responsibilities as the health care environment in the United States continues in a period of transition.
DONs and Transition in the Health Care Environment
An increasing number of nursing homes, in the pursuit of goals related to both efficiency and effectiveness, are implementing reorganization schemes that frequently involve downsizing, decentralization, or some combination of downsizing and decentralization (Barrett, 1995). Among health care.."
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A Nursing Assessment of Infant Pain, 2005.
A review of the assessment of pain in infants proving that infants experience pain more acutely than adults.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper is a literature review of a quantitative research study based on pain assessment of neonates and the corresponding practice of documenting findings of the pain assessment. The author's beliefs and findings were consistent with other research in the area that while the belief is strong in the need to follow recommended assessments and use prescribed assessments tools, the practice of documenting assessment findings is inconsistent - in other words, pain assessments may take place, but little documentation exists.
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"Infants experience pain more acutely than do adults (Reyes, 2003). This is a concept that has radically changed since the time when the medical profession was of the belief that infants did not experience pain at all due to nerve fibers that were yet to develop myelinated sheaths. Also changing, has been technology and nursing practices related to neonatal pain assessment. This paper will analyze the October, 2003 article: Nursing Assessment of Pain, published in the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing (Reyes, 2003). The analysis presentation will follow class report review guidelines, focusing on why this study is important to the field of nursing."
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The Nurse?s Role in Pain Management, 2004.
Evaluates the role of nurses in the pain management of their patients and how they can better serve that role.
2,252 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 69.95
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This research paper focuses on how effective nurses? methods and procedures are in helping patients relieve their pain. The paper also uses information and data from existing literature and studies to identify some of the problems and issues that exist in the nurse's role in pain management. Furthermore, the study provides information that can improve nurses? performance of their duties and asserts that it is important to assess and evaluate how well they function in the pain management role because this information will improve the delivery of their main and overall responsibilities.
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"Nurses play a major role in the provision of healthcare to our society. The roles performed by nurses should never be underestimated because the responsibilities they need to meet grow everyday. Among the important duties of a nurse, providing relief to pains is perhaps the foremost concern their profession demands. Their role in assisting patients, and ensuring that patients are in the most comfortable condition, is important to patients? overall treatment and healing process."
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Nurses Aids as Supplement to Nursing Staff, 2002.
A discussion of the conflict within a hospital setting between registered nurses and nursing aids.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines a conflict between registered nurses and nurses' aids at a hospital. The conflict is centered around a misunderstanding on the part of the aids towards their respective duties. The paper provides a series of steps that can resolve this group conflict.
Outline:
Introduction
Problem
Overview of Situation
Recommendationa for Solution
Conclusion
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"It has come to the attention of the floor supervisors at Newport General Hospital that there is tension among the nursing staff. The decision of Harvard Group HMO to utilize "creative management" strategies to supplement the existing registered nurses with nurses' aids has been met with extreme prejudice on the part of the medical team and the patients. "
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