Running head: Nursing Theorist - Myra Estrin Levine Nursing Theorist - Myra Estrin Levine The nursing profession is continuously evolving and dynamic. Ever since Florence Nightingale started writing her notes on nursing‚ more theories and models about the nursing profession flourished‚ especially during the last decade. One of these theories is Myra Levine’s Conservational Theory which was completed in 1973. Myra Estrin Levine was born in Chicago‚ Illinois
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Good Evening. My Name is Joyce Sanchez Hatchett Personal definition of nursing: a profession in which a person has received an education in the field of nursing and has passed state regulatory boards/ must be able to function as a patient advocate‚ a compassionate care giver‚ researcher‚ teacher‚ joke teller‚ must be emphathetic‚ comforting‚ competent‚ intelligent. Incorporates the patient and families mental‚ spiritual and physical needs in the plan of care. Communicates well with pt and family/
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This article is about the pattern of knowing and understanding of knowing in nursing. The knowledge is can be arbitrary and artificial‚ therefore‚ the critical thinking and understanding about the knowledge is necessary. The four patterns of knowledge are distinguished. The first is empirics of the science of nursing. The knowledge of nursing science has to be systematically organized in order to apply general law and theories. Thus‚ it can be described and explained. The systematically organized knowledge
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in Nursing Practice. This Kaiser Permanente research training is presented by June L. Rondinelli‚ RN‚ MSN. It is the twentieth video in a series of twenty that goes over nursing research. In this online lecture‚ she focuses defining outcomes research describe the components of Donabedian’s Model of Quality Health Care‚ listing nurse sensitive outcomes‚ and discussing places to find practice guidelines. Overall‚ the presenter discusses outcomes research as a way to evaluate change in nursing practice
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Nursing theorist concept Application in the Nursing practice Abstract Nursing theorist Virginia Henderson (1897-1996)‚ often referred to as the “First Lady of Nursing”‚ developed a nursing model based on the 14 components of activities of daily living. The paper discusses the importance of applying these components to the nursing practice. She emphasized the importance of increasing the patient’s independence so that progress after hospitalization would not be delayed (Henderson 1991). Henderson’s
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Can transcultural Nursing be applied to African American Men who have sex with men (MSM)? Jacqueline Watson Gonzaga University Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice NURS 700 Debra Smith and Lin Murphy November 9‚ 2014 According to Zander (2007) the term transcultural nursing was first established by Florence Nightingale due to her work in the Crimean war and her work in Australia with the Aborigines. Today; however‚ transcultural nursing care in healthcare focuses upon differences and similarities
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Nursing research is the process that underpins all the other things we have talked about. How was it determined that one particular way of carrying out nursing care was better than another way? How was it decided that a particular framework of understanding will explain certain behaviors better than another? When we discussed frameworks of understanding or conceptual models earlier in the course you learnt that there are various ways of viewing mental illness were discussed and the treatments were
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other healthcare providers. It is how nurses view the patient’s and the type of issue nurses deal with in practice when nurses engage in patient’s care. A nurse requires knowledge from what they had learned in the content of nursing‚ the ideas‚ concepts and theories of nursing. Nurses would be able to developed intellectual capacities and skills that would able them to become disciplined‚ self-directed and of most important critical thinkers (Adejumo. et. al. 2011).
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thinking has influenced nursing sector for many years so as to get intricate in formulising the understanding in order to become legitimate and explicit. However‚ human meanings and concerns are difficult to be formalised. Therefore‚ nursing theorist has considered other legitimate methods of knowing. (Tanner et al.‚ 1993) Carper’s paper on “pattern of knowing” was a milestone in the nursing literature which extended in a fresh perception‚ understanding of types of knowledge and theory desirable in a practice
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Range Theory of Comfort for Outcomes Research Katharine Kolcaba‚ PhD‚ RN‚ C The developmental stages of the mid range theory of comfort are discussed in this article‚ which includes its philosophic orientation and its inductive‚ deductive‚ and retroductive reasoning. Other steps that are described are the concept analysis of comfort‚ the operationalization of the outcome of patient comfort‚ the application of the theory in previous nursing studies‚ and the evaluation of the current theory as it
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