Nursing practice draws upon several different ways of knowing LIZ BERRAGAN BN‚ RGN‚ PGCE‚ RNT Freelance Nurse Teacher‚ Agency Nurse‚ c/o General Supply Squadron‚ Cyprus Logistic Unit‚ RAF Akrotiri‚ BFP0 57‚ Cyprus Accepted for publication 8 December 1996 Summary • This paper explores the proposition that nursing practice draws upon several different ways of knowing. • It highlights difficulties often faced by practising nurses in defining what they do and hence what it is that constitutes
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The nursing process is used to support models such as the Roper Logan and Tierney’s activities of daily living (ALs) in order to ensure effective care is provided for each individual patient. Other models such as Roy’s adaptation model and Peplau’s person centred approach can also be used however I feel in Albert’s situation using the ALs model will be most appropriate. According to Aggleton and Chalmers (2000) the nursing process encourages the nurse and the person being cared for to set goals.
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Discuss how psychological and sociological concepts and theories can inform health promotion in nursing practice. For the purpose of the assignment the contents will discuss Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change Model in conjunction with empowerment and self-efficacy. To support the assignment a case study will be used to aid the application of the theories and models when applied to nursing practice. The case study used in this assignment is 50 year old woman‚ Alison Stevenson‚ a single
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‘Maintaining healthy skin’ in Redfern‚ S.J. & Ross‚ F.M. (eds) Nursing Older People (4th edn)‚ Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone Peniket‚ D Robinson‚ K. & Vaughan‚ B. (1992) Knowledge for Nursing Practice‚ Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann Roper‚ N.‚ Logan‚ W Royal College of Nursing (2003) Defining Nursing‚ London: RCN. Available at: http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/78569/001998.pdf (Accessed 28 June 2008) Rudd‚ C Smith‚ M. (1999) ‘Nursing and rehabilitation’ in Smith‚ M. (ed)
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shepherd dog. Clayton suspects that the man may have seen him taking his snapshots. The young camper is named Logan Thibault‚ and although a check reveals no wrongdoing on the stranger’s part‚ Clayton does not like him. His hatred is intensified when‚ after letting Logan continue on‚ Clayton can’t find his camera and he discovers slashed tires on his vehicle. What sequence of events brought Logan to North Carolina? He fought in Iraq as a marine. On his third tour of duty‚ he discovered a photograph
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of Conduct‚ Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives. London: NMC McCabe‚ C & Timmins‚ F Naidoo‚ J & Wills‚ J. (2009) Foundations for Health Promotion. 3rd Edn. London: Baillière Tindall Elsevier. O’ Connor‚ M. (2002) “Using the Roper‚ Logan and Tiernay Model in a neonatal ICU.” Nursing Times.net (May) [Online] Available at http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice/199604.article (Accessed: 08 February 2012) Rogers‚ C Spouse‚ J‚ Cook‚ M & Cox‚ C. (2008) Common Foundation Studies
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The ease of breathing is a subconscious action that is a fundamental part of life. A professional manner is the foundation on which an assessment and quality patient care is built. It is vital that nurses have sound knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system to be able to carry out a respiratory assessment. It is essential that nurses are able to recognise and assess symptoms of respiratory dysfunction to provide early‚ effective and appropriate interventions to improve patient
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Historically nurses’ decision making has relied on tradition‚ authority‚ trial and error and research (Lee 2003‚ p. 618). However‚ more recently the appreciation and application of evidence based practice (EBP) has caused a shift in clinical nursing decision making (Lee 2003‚ p. 618). EBP is defined as ‘integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research’ (Sackett et al. 1996‚ cited in Rolfe‚ Segrott & Jordan 2008‚ p. 448). EBP
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Emily Kinghorn Medieval Europe: Jan Vandeburie Word Count: 1‚906 To what extent was the papacy successful in asserting its dominance over the Western Church? The extent to which the papacy asserted dominance over the Western Church has been greatly disputed amongst historians. Certain historians would argue that there is little to suggest that the pope had control from inside other than papal reform to prevent unrest and‚ would argue that in fact the real conflict was between him and individual
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are there and where did they come from? What exactly does “language” mean in the twenty-first century? Robert K. Logan‚ a renowned physicist and media ecologist as well as the author of “The Sixth Language”‚ claims he has the answers. In his work‚ Logan claims that six languages form an evolutionary chain of languages: speech‚ writing‚ math‚ science‚ computing and the internet (Logan 2000). Over the years there has been much debate as to what language really is. The American Heritage dictionary
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