Presciutti‚ M.‚ Bader‚ M. K.‚ & Hepburn‚ M. (2012). Shivering Management During Therapeutic Temperature Modulation: Nurses’ Perspective. Critical Care Nurse‚32(1)‚ 33-42. doi:10.4037/ccn2012189 This article discusses shivering as a major complication of therapeutic hypothermia treatment and the importance of its early recognition and resolution. The article describes a tool called “The Bedside Shivering Assessment Scale” which according to the text‚ “can be used to determine the efficacy of interventions
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Nursing Theory in Professional Practice Nursing Theory in Professional Practice Nursing is the art and science of caring for individuals with potential or actual health problems. Nursing is the art of providing quality‚ compassionate care while evaluating the patients’ biopsychosocial and spiritual needs. Nursing as a science evaluates the patients’ health and response to disease. Nurses assist individuals and groups to maintain or attain optimal health. They implement care to accomplish
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Discussion of student’s response to the management position and management/ leadership I thought charge nurse Jo did a fantastic job in managing the flow of the entire unit. I believe that she uses a transformational approach with a democratic leadership background. Democratic leadership is a type of leadership style that incorporate the whole group to participate in decision making. Leadership theories such as transformational leadership are constantly used to guide nursing leadership research by projecting
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00X-7489/97 %17.00+0.00 The evaluation of nursing theory: a method for our madness Sharon L. Dudley-Brown Assistant Professor‚ University of Maryland School of Nursing‚ Department of Material and Clinical Health‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ U.S.A. (Received 20 March 1995;revised 13 January 1996;accepted 11 March 1996) Abstract The profession of nursing has‚ in recent years‚ been trying to further develop‚ test and use proposed nursing theory. To utilize theory appropriately‚ in all domains of practice
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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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practices is carried through by: patient safety measures‚ collaborating with other team members‚ and new technology. Effective management during a crisis is prioritizing and providing continuity of care. Patient teaching of testing‚ educating on medications and setting mutual goals falls within these interlocking domains. Simplicity Benner uses five concepts to describe nursing practice. Competencies that were identified are grouped inductively into seven domains. There is a degree of complexity
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ABSTRACT This paper defines the four functions of management and the operations management theory. It then provides an analysis of how the functions of management the operations management. THE FOUR FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT Planning: It is an act of formulating a program for a definitive course of action. The management defines a goal and puts forward its strategies to accomplish the objectives defined. Organizing: To divide the work force into specific groups and giving each group a specific
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Historical timeline of nursing theory development NUR/513 12/2/2012 Historical timeline of nursing theory development The evolution of nursing as a profession throughout time has proven to be both an art and science. Different events throughout history have shaped nursing into its current organization. Nursing in the future is improving‚ striving for better care and service to the community in whole. The objective of this paper is to discuss the historic development of nursing‚ the relationship
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Nursing Theory Plan of Care Theoretical Foundations of Practice NUR/513 March 05‚ 2012 Nursing Theory Plan of Care Ida Orlando literally wrote the book on the function of nursing. Her theory of the deliberative nursing process outlines a dynamic nurse-patient relationship in which the nurse uses his or her senses of perception together with deliberate actions to create an individualized care plan for each patient. Results of current research on the application of her theory follow
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Discuss the value of nursing theory to the profession of nursing. Identify one way in which you could use nursing theory to improve your practice (present or future role). Provide a reference for your response. Nursing theory is the term given to the body of knowledge that is used to support nursing practice. (Current Nursing‚ 2012). The foundation for nursing research was developed by nursing theory‚ which is important in developing nursing practice. If it wasn ’t for nursing research‚ we would
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