Author: Liu
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Kurt Lewin’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Change Theory
Considered the father of social psychology, Kurt Lewin developed the nursing model known as Change Theory. He theorized a three-stage model of change that is known as the “unfreezing-change-refreeze model” that requires prior learning to be rejected and replaced. It states behavior as “a dynamic balance of forces working in opposing directions.” The three concepts identified…
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Katharine Kolcaba’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Comfort Theory
Kolcaba developed her nursing theory in the 1990s. It is a middle range nursing theory designed for nursing practice, research, and education. According to her theory, patient comfort exists in three forms: relief, ease, and transcendence. These comforts can occur in four contexts: physical, psychospiritual, environmental, and sociocultural. Relief comfort usually comes in the form…
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Virginia Henderson’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Nursing Need Theory
Henderson’s Need Theory emphasizes the importance of patient independence so that the patient will continue to progress after being released from the hospital. Henderson described the role of the nurse as one of the following: substitutive, which is doing something for the patient; supplementary, which is helping the patient do something; or complementary, which is…
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Faye Glenn Abdellah’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Twenty-One Nursing Problems
According to Abdellah’s Twenty-One Nursing Problems theory of nursing, “Nursing is based on an art and science that moulds the attitudes, intellectual competencies, and technical skills of the individual nurse into the desire and ability to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.” The patient-centered approach to nursing was developed from Abdellah’s…
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How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.
Criteria Fill in the answers in this column. Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, official job title of interviewee that includes the type of nursing information role and the date the interview was conducted. RN Initials: CAHIMS, CPHIMS, CHCIO Job Title: Hospital Chief Information Officer Date of Interview: August 13, 2018 Required Questions (answer EVERY…
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How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.
Completing this interview will help to strengthen my profession because I have learned a lot throughout the process. During the discussion, I recognized the significance of incorporating new technology into the healthcare system. For example, the introduction of Smart beds has helped to reduce in-hospital accidental falls among patients by electronically reporting movements by the…
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Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not “understand the needs of nurses/nursing?”
From the interviewee’s experience, the most dominant challenge she has faced include interpreting nursing informatics in its correct context to other disciplines within the hospital. Staff from other disciplines fail to understand that nursing informatics is an extension of nursing practice, and thus they end up not appreciating the roles of nurse informaticists. Mostly, it…
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develop a qualitative research proposal using guidelines attached. i assume a descriptive-exploratory qualitative method with phenomenology design
Instructions: develop a qualitative research proposal using guidelines attached. i assume a descriptive-exploratory qualitative method with phenomenology design Wilkes University Passan School of Nursing NSG 502: Final Project Students are to select option 1 or 2 and read the corresponding chapters. The writing rubric will be used to grade the final paper. Follow APA 6th edition…
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Vonnie is in the seventh stage of Erickson’s Developmental stages, generativity versus stagnation.
When asked how Vonnie views health, her response was “It is very important but not the point where you obsess over it.” Vonnie said, “For instance if there is food I want to eat, I will just eat it.” Vonnie states that she hopes for the future of her health is to be off all…