Theories as the Basis for Nursing Practice Seema R Sulemani Homeland University NURS 211 SF12 October 14‚ 2012 Abstract Theory development is the fundamental step for expansion of nursing knowledge. The knowledge has been borrowed from different disciplines to build the nursing theories. The categorization of theories is based on their scope of practice. The grand nursing theories are the most complex and abstract in their nature. Middle range theories are inducted mostly from grand nursing
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Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person or organism may live‚ based on the year of their birth‚ their current age and other demographic factors including gender. There are several sites available that will help one determine how many years one is expected to live. Life expectancy can be put into a mathematical formula ex where e denotes the expected number of years remaining and x denotes the person’s present age. There are several variables that are included when determining
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A theoretical foundation provides a rationale for predictions about the relationship among variable of research study. Predictive theories move beyond explanation of precise relations between concepts or the effects of one or more concepts (McEwen & Wills‚ 2014). Predictive theories are generated and tested by experimental research involving manipulation of a phenomenon to determine how it affects or changes some dimension or characteristics of another phenomenon (Fawcett‚ 1999). During Green & Davis
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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 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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developped countries and the least developped countries concerning life expectancy. Life expectancy is an average number of year given to a person at his birth depending on the country he was born in‚ and it is a factor defining the health of a country. Diseases‚ war‚ famine‚ death rates in one hand‚ national economic prosperity‚ standard education and performant healthcare in the other hand‚ there are many factors affecting the life expectancy in each country‚ making it better or worse. People tend to have
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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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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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nurses must be prepared to deliver such care (Prosen‚ 2015). The American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) considers cultural competence as an important component to advanced practice nurses’ (APNs) education and preparedness (AACN‚ 2011). Dr. Madeleine Leininger‚ a nurse anthropologist‚ developed the transcultural nursing theory in the 1960s (DeNisco & Barker‚ 2016). Transcultural nursing theory is defined as “a formal area of study and practice focused on comparative human-care (caring) differences
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hospital gives quality service. According to nursecredentialing.org‚ 80% of nurses must a BSN by 2020. So‚ for me the difference between a BSN and an ADN is that I won’t get the job. I had an all about the money conspiracy theory. I knew it had to be more to it than my crazy theory. I read statistical material. I’m sure it was truthful. Right now‚ it’s just a bunch of numbers on a page. I want to understand why a new grad BSN trumps my six years of experience as an ADN. Continuing my research‚ my eyes
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