Category: Nursing
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Measurement for Change in Nursing
Being a nurse means that one must be prepared to face numerous challenges (Kelly, 2006) and be ready with an appropriate strategy to address the emerging issues (Kelly, 2006a). Personally, I have encountered a range of situations, in which the outcomes hinged on my competence and skills. However, by far the greatest challenge that a…
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Care and Critical Transitions: Planning a Nursing Study
Table of Contents Introduction Problem Significance Purpose Research Questions Master’s Essentials References Introduction While often overlooked, transitional nursing (TN) plays a crucial role in providing proper care. The phenomenon of TN involves the set of strategies and approaches used to make the process of transferring a patient from one setting to another as carefully and…
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Nursing: The Five Stages of Grief
Who is the nurse theorist we associate with the five stages of grief? Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is the nurse scholar identified with the five stages of grief. She intended to learn what the patients were contemplating while they were dying. With her first-hand study, she developed the famous five-stage theory popularly known as the “Kübler-Ross Model.”…
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Patient-Centered Nursing Care Delivery Model
Nursing Care Delivery Model Patient-centered care is a model of nursing care that encompasses a patient’s values, needs, preferences, and experiences in the planning, coordination, and delivery of care. It seeks to include patients and family members as active participants in the decision-making process rather than passive recipients of treatment. The model seeks to recognize…
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Personal Nursing Philosophy: Assumptions, Beliefs, and Domains of the Nursing Metaparadigm
Nursing can be defined as an act of providing and maintaining people’s health and capabilities, preventing illnesses, performing the treatment, educating patients about proper self-care, and increasing the level of health care quality in general (by contributing to the well-being of each person in particular). It is a constantly changing practice exercised by a highly…
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Core Competencies in Nursing
Table of Contents Introduction Advanced Role of Indirect Care Provider Advanced Role of Direct Care Provider Similarities and Differences Conclusion References Introduction The health care industry has many areas that may seem unrelated to the health care services’ provision. Nurse administrators, nurse informaticists, and many other positions are not related to the provision of the…
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Nursing Care Models Integrated in Practice
Table of Contents Introduction Observed Model Model Summary Additional Model Improving Quality Conclusion References Introduction Organization of care delivery is a complex process that is dependent on a variety of factors such as policy and economics. However, it is also influenced by the evidence presented by nursing care models which improve the quality of care…
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Simman Use in Nursing Education
Defining a Project and Deciding to Do a Project This project deals with evaluating the effectiveness of the SimMan use in nursing education. SimMan is a human patient simulator developed by Laerdal Medical Corp. It consists of computer software and a mannequin which presents “a lifelike adult or pediatric body that includes cardiovascular, pulmonary, and…
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Team and Primary Nursing Care Models in Practice
Table of Contents Introduction Selected Nursing Care Model Team Nursing Primary Nursing Implementation of the Current Model Recommending a Different Nursing Care Model Concluding Remarks References Introduction Researchers in the field of healthcare has managed to design evidence-based models and strategies to meet the changing medical needs of different patients. Nurse practitioners (NPs) should be…
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An Analysis of a Research: Understanding Nursing Research
The article “Relationships among resilience, stress, and persistence in prenursing students during COVID-19″ provides information about the impact of the recent pandemic on the well-being of prenursing students. The primary finding of the research by Urban et al. (2022) is that the on-campus prenursing students who participated in the study reported higher levels of stress…