Pender Nursing Theory Nola Pender‚ former professor of nursing at the University of Michigan‚ has developed a rational-choice model of healthcare. This is not really a nursing theory per se‚ but a psychological look at how human beings perceive themselves‚ their health and their ability to change their lifestyles to promote health. As a result of this focus‚ Pender’s model is normally called the "Health Promotion Model" of nursing. Features This model is based on the idea that human beings
Premium Nursing Medicine Health
The author will discussed nursing leadership‚ nursing management with relevant theories relating to managing and coordinating patients care and nursing teams. In this essay‚ an incident in the clinical practice is analysed and evaluated using six Cs‚ exploring essential skills required‚ discussion leadership and management styles in action and consequential outcome on patients’ health and experience. A leader is an individual who can direct‚ control‚ and commands others. In healthcare setting‚ leaders
Premium Nursing Health care Nurse
According to the behavioral theory‚ learning involves alterations and modifications in behavior (Barrett‚ 2006). Behaviorists believe that what one learns is influenced by the environment instead of the student. The theory of behavioral learning also contends that reinforcement‚ whether positive or negative‚ are essential to the learning process (Smith‚ 2005). As a teacher one particular function‚ according to the behavioral learning theory‚ would be to make use of negative reinforcers to
Premium Reinforcement Psychology Behaviorism
decreasing retention of students in the nursing programs. Since the 20th century‚ there has been a decline in retaining students in nursing programs (Bigbee & Mixon‚ 2013). However‚ the issue of retention became more prominent as changes occurred in the secondary educational system and as guidelines related to financial assistance changed. Many students enter postsecondary programs unprepared for the challenges colleges‚ thus contributing to being unsuccessful in nursing school. Review of literature revealed
Premium Nursing Nurse Florence Nightingale
Theories of Aging related to Nursing From the reading this week I learned that even though some cognitive functions in old age decline people regardless of age can continue to learn. The cognitive skills that remain stable are attention span‚ language skills‚ communication skills‚ comprehension and discourse and visual perception. Some of the skills that decline with age are verbal fluency logical analysis‚ selective attention object naming and complex vision spatial skills.( Toughy and Jett 2010)
Premium Psychology Cognition Ageing
Annotated Bibliography Meyer‚ R. M.‚ & O ’Brien-Pallas‚ L. L. (2010). Nursing services delivery theory: An open system approach. Journal of Advanced Nursing‚ 66(12)‚ 2828-2838. This paper focuses on elucidating the how Nursing Services Delivery Theory can be derived from the application of open system theory in case of the large scale organization. The healthcare organizations are referred to the open systems which can be characterized by the transformation of energy‚ negative entropy‚ differentiation
Premium Nursing Scientific method Health care
cardiology group‚ there is not a lot of large quality and risk management projects that take place within our group; however‚ we do try to do our own risk management and quality improvements to enhance patient safety and efficiency. One of the challenges that we face is the discharge planning process or the lack there of. We typically do not admit patients‚ and the majority of the time we are consulted to see patients regarding an acute and chronic cardiac conditions. Many times‚ the hospitalist
Premium Patient Health care Health care provider
Business e-Bulletin Vol. 1‚ Issue 1‚ 55-64 GOODS AND SERVICES TAX‚ PROBLEMS AND EFFECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION ABOOD MOHAMMAD SALMEEN ALEBEL INTRODUCTION In taxation‚ taxpayers are taxed in two forms: whether through direct taxes such as income tax and road tax or through indirect taxes such as the sales tax and the services tax. For direct taxes‚ taxpayers will definitely realize that they are facing the tax burden since taxpayers are required to declare their income and to pay tax accordingly to the
Premium Value added tax Tax Indirect tax
Complexity Theory as Applied to Nursing‚ 2005 Abstract Many conventional ideas about the world we live in have been shaken to their foundations by the emerging concepts of chaos and complexity. Insights are now being gained from the application of complexity theory into phenomena varying in scale from the natural sciences such as biology to the concept of caring in the nurse-patient relationship. These new scientific ideas have significant implications for the theory and practice of nursing. This
Premium Chaos theory Nursing Complexity
CHAPTER 5 Implementation‚ contracts‚ and renegotiation in environments with complete information* John Moore READER’S GUIDE Part one of the chapter is written in an easy style‚ to try to demystify the subject (it is based on the lecture given at the World Congress). The Biblical story of the Judgement of Solomon is used as a running example for presenting different notions of implementation. Inevitably‚ perhaps‚ this part of the chapter contains a number of statements that are rather loose
Premium Game theory Nash equilibrium