Module 2: Nursing Theory Development‚ Analysis & Evaluation 1) What is the relationship between: Methatheory deals with the processes of generating knowledge and debating broad issues related to the nature of theory‚ types of theory needed‚ and suitable criteria for theory evaluation. Metatheory -refers to the phiosophical and methodologic questions related to developing a theroretical base for nursing. Gran Theory - Grand theories are thef conceptional frameworks of broad perspesctives
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Dorothea Dix Nov. 12th 2013 Life Chart Name of Biographee: Dorothea H. Dix Date of Birth: April 4‚ 1802 Date of Death: July 17‚ 1887 Place of Birth: Hampden‚ Maine Location where this individual spent her early life: Worcester/Boston‚ Massachusets Education: Tutored‚ homeschooled‚ self taught Spouse: N/A Children: N/A Significant Relatives: N/A Careers: Education‚ Author‚ Activist‚ War Nurse Most Significant Careers: Education‚ Activist Years of most significant effect on the history
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Nursing requires daily‚ hourly and even up to the minute tasks and details. The nurse is reactive and supportive‚ caring and efficient. It may be overwhelming to keep up with the many activities of daily nursing. But being professional nurse is all that and more. It means that you have an internal roadmap to patient care‚ a guide that helps you achieve good outcomes. This is where nursing theory comes in. Nursing theory can help you with overt and covert problems‚ as well as inform your nursing decisions
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Nursing Care for Dissociative Indentity Disorder Santosh Baral Nursing Care for Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Dissociative identity disorder is a common mental disorder. American Psychiatric Association (2000) defines DID as‚ "presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the individual’s behaviour‚ accompanied by an inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness"
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Care Plan Norma Valdez-Rosa South University Online Introduction Chronic illness affects the whole family not just the patient. As discussed in our readings from this week‚ the impact of disease on family members includes: Emotional impact‚ financial impact‚ Impact on family relationships‚ Impact on the caregiver’s education or work‚ Impact on the caregiver’s leisure time and Social impact for the caregiver (Golics‚ et al‚ 2013). All of these factors are import to consider when
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which affects everyone and should be discussed. Every person deserves to have some autonomy when it comes to end-of-life care decisions. There are ethical and legal disputes that arise because of disagreements between patients‚ families‚ and medical professionals. Unfortunately‚ there is not always a clear right answer to what extent or how something should be done. How to care for a dying individual also presents a plethora of issues‚ especially for nurses. This is mostly due to lack of support
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Development of Nursing Timeline September 15‚ 2014 Historical Development of Nursing Timeline This paper discusses a timeline of the development of nursing science history starting with Florence Nightingale to present times. Florence Nightingale will always be associated with nursing‚ regardless how the field of nursing changes. Significant historical events to include dates which have enhanced the field of nursing will be discussed
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Quality Nursing Care (i) Table of contents PAGE 1. Introduction 1 2. Definition / Explanation of quality care 1 3. The Elements of quality care 1 4. Quality assurance and risk management
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Ethical Practice in Nursing S.Z‚ a 65 year old Hispanic male‚ is being discharged from hospital after being admitted with a blood sugar of 589. He has been seeing a curandero to manage his diabetes mellitus type II‚ hyperlipidemia‚ and osteoarthritis. He has not taken his prescription medications for these chronic conditions‚ but instead takes traditional medicines the curandero tells him to take. His daughter approaches the nurse with her concerns over her father’s heath and asks the nurse if
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After completing the self assessment tool for self care‚ it was clear that I am lacking in many areas. With the aid of the assessment tool I was able to recognize that my strengths are in my emotional self care and professional self care. I must say that with these areas of strengths for me‚ I am elated. I like to think that I give a lot of myself when I am caring for others such as my patients and family. However‚ the areas that I need improvement on are for me. It did not surprise me that my areas
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