|Jean Watson’s Philosophy of Nursing | |This page was last updated on January 26‚ 2012 | |[pic] | |Introduction | |Theorist - Jean Watson was born in West Virginia‚ US | |Educated: BSN‚ University of Colorado‚ 1964
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government spends substantial amounts of money to provide care through nursing homes and community/home based services. In 1994‚ more than $100 billion was spent on long-term care in the US in 1994‚ 72% of which went to nursing home care (Binstock‚ Cluff‚ & Mering‚ 1996). It was not until recently‚ however‚ that long-term care of the elderly received attention from the government and the health care sector. Throughout most of American history‚ the long term care of the elderly has been considered a responsibility
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering
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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
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What is nursing? What exactly does it mean to nurse a patient‚ and how has this definition changed over the past centuries? What does the discipline of nursing consist of? In this essay‚ I aim to attempt to answer these questions‚ along with the help of a myriad of nursing researchers whose studies have helped to broaden my perspective on what exactly it is that I now do for a living. I will be discussing the different types of nursing knowledge that assists us as nurses to care for patients and
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Theories and Theorists Many professions have theories and theorists‚ especially in the medical and psychological fields. Sometimes theories will develop by theorists doing new research‚ but at other times previous theorists theories are used by a new researcher to expand on the theory and possibly come up with a new theory of his or her own. This paper will help show theories and theorists important to psychology. Psychologists and researchers in this field use these theories often‚ which is what
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Running Head: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE Putting Theory into Practice: Utilization of Henderson’s Nursing Theory in Everyday Nursing Practice Health care around the world and especially in the Western world‚ has undergone extreme changes over the past few decades‚ however‚ the basic principles of nursing such as caring for the sick and elderly have remained the same. Many of those principles come from the teaching of Virginia Henderson. Her interactional theory of holistic care has helped
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Nursing Theorist Grid: Ida Orlando Use grid below to complete the Week 4-Nursing Theorists assignment. Please see the “Nursing Theorists’ Grading Criteria” document‚ located on the Materials page of the student Web site. Name: Theorist Selected: Ida Orlando Description of Theory: Ida Orlando developed the deliberative nursing theory process in response to the nurse’s interpretation of client behavior. According to Orlando‚ the deliberative nursing process has five
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Analysis of Family Stress Theory Nursing theory explains the relationship between concepts to enhance understanding and knowledge about a phenomenon (Walker & Advant‚ 2005). Theoretical frameworks for nursing of families provide a foundation for guiding the development of family centered care and research (Friedman‚ Bowden‚ & Jones‚ 2003).The application of theory helps to guide nursing practice‚ education‚ and research and supports the development of evidence-based nursing strategies and interventions
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Nursing Theorist Grid Use grid below to complete the Week 4-Nursing Theorists assignment. Please see the “Nursing Theorists’ Grading Criteria” document‚ located on the Materials page of the student Web site. Theorist Selected: Ida Jean Orlando Pelletier Description of Theory: Ida Orlando developed the theory that nurses are people who act deliberately. “Orlando’s theory is a reflective practice theory that is based on discovering and resolving problematic situations
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