Comfort Care Theory Nightingale described comfort as first duty of nurses. Since then comfort theory is flourishing in nursing and medical field. The first article on comfort theory was published in 1994 (Oliveira‚ 2013). Katharine Kolcaba first published her book on comfort care in 2003. This theory has been published and accepted at many health care authorities (Kolcaba & Dimarco‚ 2005). Kolcaba defined comfort as “the immediate state of being strengthen through having the human needs for relief
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NUR 587 April 13‚ 2015 Dr. Sharon Thompson Personal Development Plan Intro Nursing is much more than a job; it is a lifetime career path. One does not step lightly into the field of nursing just to further their financial gains. As quoted by Florence Nightingale‚ “Nursing is an art… it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation‚ as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble‚ compared with having to do with the living body‚ the temple of
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Public health nursing evolved to teach us that wellbeing needs to move outside the individual‚ to include the family and community‚ to make all of the population healthy (Truglio-Londrigan‚ & Lewenson‚ 2013‚ p. 5). Public nursing started out as district nursing‚ in England‚ where nurses transitioned from the hospital‚ to work with the sick poor in their homes. They took care of patients‚ families‚ and communities by protecting the poor from unsanitary conditions and teaching them hygienic routines
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The elements of the nursing knowledge sums up what nursing is all about. Right from its inception through Florence Nightgale’s work‚ nursing has approached patient care with a holistic ideology. It was not surprising to come across the metaparadigm of the nursing knowledge including‚ the person‚ health‚ environment‚ and nursing practice. The metaparadigm share light of the ideology of nursing. With that said‚ it is essential we produce more research work and come-up with knowledge unique to the profession
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References: Pilarski‚ T. (Fall‚ 2010). Where is Nursing Informatics in Undergraduate Nursing Education? CJNI: Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics‚ 5 (4)‚ Article Two. http://cjni.net/journal/?p=1041. Nightingale F. Notes on nursing what it is and is not. London: Churchill Livingstone‚ 1946. (First published in 1859) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/infolit/overview/intro/index.cfm
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things that come to mind when faced with dire situations. In my interviews the three of them tells me that theories are almost never present in their minds when doing their job. But one theorist keeps coming up and that person is no other than Nightingale. Her theory seems to be the most popular. Since her theory is simple but true and without doubt effective in helping a patient achieve health. As I have said earlier‚ nursing is sometimes about experience. Nurses are more effective when they
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Nursing as an Entity Casey Berling‚ BSN Student Eastern Kentucky University NSC 252 Intro to Professional Nursing Department of Baccalaureate & Graduate Nursing‚ College of Health Sciences October 31‚ 2012 If the question was asked‚ “What is your definition of nursing‚” to the thousands of nurses in the world today‚ there would be one word that would unite them all‚ and that is the word care. Nursing strives to be a very unique profession where selfishness‚ and self-serving
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Personal Definition of Nursing Maryville University Personal Definition of Nursing My definition of nursing is the protection‚ promotion‚ optimize the health‚ prevention of illness and injury‚ alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment‚ and advocacy in the care of individuals‚ families‚ communities‚ and populations (American Nurses Association‚ 2013). Once you are involved in the nursing profession there is much more to it than caring and taking care of people. We help
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different to the old based training model. Today‚ nurses learn from theory behind actions‚ procedures and decisions‚ before gaining the experience of performing the action or duty of nursing. In contrast‚ the hospital based model was based on the Nightingale system where the educational needs of the trainee nurse took second place to the service needs of the hospital. The limited theory component of the course was given by doctors and other health care workers (Matron) at the hospital and not by educators
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Maria Jennifer R. Falcon IV-Nightingale Acute Biological Crisis article [pic] Critical care nursing is a field of nursing that focuses on the provision of care to critically patients‚ unstable patients‚ or pediatric patients. Critical care nursing is usually implemented at the Emergency Room (ER) and at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Because of the unstable nature of the client’s illnesses‚ on nurses who specialize in critical care nursing are allowed to handle them. Nursing assistants‚ Licensed
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