Nursing Care Plan: Terminal Illness and End-of-Life Lisa White Western Governors University Community and Population Health SZT 2 September 07‚ 2013 Nursing Care Plan: Terminal Illness and End-of-Life Personal Perceptions Quality of life is an individual concept that is different for each person. Personal perception of quality of life may differ from the reality of one’s life. My perception of quality of life and health promotion include a close relationship with spouse and family
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observed that obsessive-compulsive disorder today involves senior citizens particularly in Iloilo although they do not represent any illness. Normal worries‚ such as contamination fears‚ may increase during times of stress‚ such as when someone in the family is sick or dying. Only when symptoms persist‚ make no sense‚ cause much distress‚ or interfere with functioning do they need clinical attention. This aforementioned scenario has motivated the researcher to determine the relationship between the levels
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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 scope
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Japan Journal of Nursing Science (2008) 5‚ 71 doi:10.1111/j.1742-7924.2008.00111.x EDITORIAL Nursing theory – remembering our future Modern nursing theory began with Virginia Henderson in the 1960s. In her grand theory of nursing‚ she defined nursing as “assisting individuals to gain independence in the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery (Henderson‚ 1966‚ p. 15). Since the 1970s‚ the literature on nursing theory has focused upon two levels of nursing theories: the
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Health Promotion in Nursing Care Robert Driver GCU Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429 Jennifer Wood October 12‚ 2014 Health Promotion in Nursing Care Health Promotion is the social science and art of helping individuals discover the interaction between their optimal health and core passions‚ increasing their ambition to strive for optimal health‚ and encouraging them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of ideal health. Lifestyle change is made possible through educational
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The nursing shortage impacts the world in a prodigious way. The nursing shortage has an adverse impact on patient care‚ as well as on nurses. The causes of the nursing shortage are multi-faceted and there is no single measure that influences the declining issues. The most concerning issue of the nursing shortage is the decline in patient care‚ and positive outcome (Buchan‚ 2010). The research question in this study is the following: How does the nursing shortage affect quality of patient care
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specific field. In a like manner‚ different rules can be applied to the manufacturing and domestic maintenance. As the need for a well-planed‚ effective and safe maintenance has emerged‚ a complex methodology has been designed. It is called Reliability Centred Maintenance. Such methodology is applied to various contexts of maintenance so that there has been a little agreement on what is a real purpose of such approach. Therefore‚ current paper lingers upon the analysis and contextualization of RCM in terms
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Learning Centred Feedback in Practice Professors Ian Black and Dylan Wiliam of Kings College London reviewed a significant number of research studies and showed that formative assessment has more effect on learning than any other single factor (including prior learning). (Black & Wiliam (1998) “Assessment and Classroom Learning” in the journal Assessment in Education.) The following summarises the conclusions drawn from this research and is a good starting point for teachers in relation to assessment
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Orem Orem’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory description of category of theory is a set of broad concepts‚ definitions‚ relationships developed and assumptions or propositions created from nursing models or from other disciplines and projects of purposes that are required for care of by individual patient‚ family and community (Current Nursing‚2013). Orem ’s approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then to define
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dimension of care to meet the individual needs of each patient‚ each component of the metaparadigm of nursing must be considered. This metaparadigm was first developed by Florence Nightingale and is still a valid and important tool nurses use every day. Its four components are person‚ environment‚ health and nursing each works to help the other for a better understanding and application of proper care (Fawcett‚ 1994). The first paradigm refers not only to a person‚ but also to the families or social
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