Category: nursing study guides
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Nurse Leadership During Organizational Mergers and Acquisitions
When hospital and health system mergers bring together the services of two healthcare organizations, chief nursing officers (CNOs) must be ready to support the transition by anticipating emerging issues, providing skilled communication and tackling the dynamic changes. Executive nurse leaders working as CNOs provide steadfast and dependable governance in a time of upheaval. Using their…
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Dr Patricia Benner’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: From Novice to Expert Concept
Patricia Benner developed a concept known as “From Novice to Expert.” This concept explains that nurses develop skills and an understanding of patient care over time from a combination of a strong educational foundation and personal experiences. Dr Benner proposed that a nurse could gain knowledge and skills without actually learning a theory. She…
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Isabel Hampton Robb’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Nursing Education
Robb’s most notable contribution to nursing was in the field of education. The reforms she put into place set standards for nursing education, and most of them are still followed today. Specifically, she developed and implemented a grading policy for nursing students that required nurses to prove their abilities in order to be awarded qualifications.…
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Henry Stack-Sullivan’s Contribution to Nursing: Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory
Stack-Sullivan is known for his Interpersonal Theory. He is considered the father of interpersonal psychiatry or interpersonal psychoanalysis. He proposed the interpersonal theory of personality. He explained the role of interpersonal relationships and social experiences in shaping personality. He also explained the importance of current life events to psychopathology. The theory further states that the purpose…
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Joyce Travelbee’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Human-to-Human Relationship Model
Travelbee developed the Human-to-Human Relationship Model of Nursing. The theory was presented in her book,Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing, which was published in 1961. The assumptions of the model are based on Soren Kierkegaard’s philosophy of existentialism and Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy. Existentialism places the accountability for people’s choices in life on the people who make those choices.…
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Hildegard Peplau’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: The Theory of Interpersonal Relations
Peplau’s model for nursing, which helped later nursing theorists and clinicians develop more therapeutic interventions, includes seven nursing roles, which show the dynamic character roles typical in clinical nursing. The Seven Nursing Roles are: the stranger role, in which the nurse receives the patient the way a stranger is met in other situations, and provides an…
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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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66 year old caucasian female with past medical history of hypertension, diabetes and diabetic neuropathy and previous amputation of big toe and second digit on right foot. patient state after recent tornado she was doing some yard work then within a few days she noticed infection on her foot. patient is 157cm in height and 100.5kg in weight
: Casestudy -( this is a hypothetical scenario.) demonstrate ability to synthesize nursing knowledge of a complex patient Instructions: case study: 66 year old caucasian female with past medical history of hypertension, diabetes and diabetic neuropathy and previous amputation of big toe and second digit on right foot. patient state after recent tornado she was…