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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"nursing theory"”.
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The Journey through Perspective Transformation: Learning Nursing Theory
Through the use of grounded theory, educational methods most useful for nurses to achieve a perspective transformation, as exemplified by learning nursing theory were examined. Perspective transformation is a theory originally developed by Mezirow (1978) in a study of older women returning to …
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Spirituality And Spiritual Self-Care: Expanding Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
<p>The purpose of this study was to extend the theory of self-care deficit nursing by including specific constructs of religion, spirituality, and spiritual self-care practices within the structure suggested by Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory. Based on an extensive literature review, …
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Narratives of Adolescent Students: the Integration of Health and Learning Through Application of Nursing Theory
… identify my teaching practice in relationship to nursing theory integrating it with learning theory, thus highlighting the relationship between the health and learning of students. And third, I analyze and discuss my experiences to develop an emerging theory that can be shared with others in the …
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Diffusing nursing theory through nursing continuing education: knowledge, beliefs, and practices of nursing continuing education providers
Continuing education (CE) is that arm of the nursing educational system charged with the responsibility to disseminate nursing theory to those nurses whose formal education did not include nursing theory. This study examined the extent to which nursing theory was disseminated through CE programs in …
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The Effect of Simulation with Debriefing for Meaningful Learning in Courses of Nursing Theory and Practicum on Student Knowledge and Perception of Instruction
<p>Nursing students are expected to apply knowledge from lectures and laboratories to the clinical setting. One major challenge of nursing educators is facilitating the transfer of knowledge to the clinical-practice setting. Simulation-based education provides students with an experiential-learning …
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A qualitative multi-method study to explore the relevance of Benner's 'novice to expert' nursing theory in contemporary post-registration wound care higher education
… of Benner's 1984 five-stage 'novice to expert' nursing theory of skills acquisition and development in post-registration wound care nursing higher education in one institute in south west Scotland.;BACKGROUND: Since 1984, the fundamental assertions and learning and teaching strategies associated …
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A Wholistic Model of Cancer Care for Nursing Practice
Nursing today is affected by challenges to the beliefs and values underlying the delivery of health care services. Though nursing theory development, nursing has embraced a new paradigm in which the scientific medical model is being replaced by a model based on the concept of wholism. Key ideas …
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Nurse Faculty's Strategies to Teach Clinical Judgment: Use of Transformative Learning Theory in the Nursing Classroom
… judgment is acquired through experience. In nursing programs, this experience may be obtained through hospital-based clinical instruction and simulation scenarios. Although the literature demonstrates these methods of instruction beneficial to learning clinical judgment, time restraints and …
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A therapeutic nursing relationship
… between nurse and patient is important to nursing care and health outcomes. This relationship can be therapeutic for both nurse and patient. However, the current lack of conceptual consensus and descriptive clarity in nursing theory has precluded the relationship from the realms of therapy …
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Reciprocity in Relationships Among Rural Nurses
… Reciprocity is a concept that is not defined in nursing literature or emphasized in nursing theory, but may be important when exploring relationships among nurses. Reciprocity is defined by Pritchard (1969) as “equality of perceived investments in and outcomes from a relationship relative to the …
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Experience of oncology nurses and cancer survivors during cancer treatment transition from oncology teams to primary care providers teams
… for individual semi-structured interview. Nursing Theory of Transition framework and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach were applied to guide the study for data collection and analysis. Cancer survivors had concerns under personal transition and faced challenges under care …
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The Use of Academic Performance as a Predictor of Success of the National Council Licensing Examination
… the relationship between a baccalaureate nursing student's academic performance and scores received on the National Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN); and to develop an equation to predict NCLEX-RN scores.<br> The sample consisted of 25 generic students who graduated …
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Understanding the Culture Care Practices of Rural Immigrant Mexican Women
The purpose of this ethnonursing study was to understand the culture care meanings, expressions, patterns and practices of immigrant Mexican women who live in a rural community in Ohio. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory was utilized as an organizing framework in studying …
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Culture Care of Puerto Rican Elderly in a Community Setting
The purpose of this ethnonursing study was to discover the culture care meanings, beliefs, expressions, and practices of urban elderly Puerto Ricans residing in a mid-sized community. The Culture Care Theory was used as the guiding framework in studying the domain of inquiry: the discovery of the …
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The Experience of Feeling Disrespected a Humanbecoming Perspective
… a universal living experience. The humanbecoming theory of nursing science guided the study. The purposes of this investigation were to advance nursing science by gaining an understanding of the structure of the living experience of feeling disrespected for women who have experienced this …
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Generic and Professional Health Care Beliefs, Expressions and Practices of Syrian Muslims Living in the Midwestern United States
The purpose of this ethnonursing study was to discover the generic and professional health care beliefs, expressions, and practices of Syrian Muslims living in the Midwestern United States and to describe the influence of worldview, cultural context, and social structure, such as technological, …
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Culture Care Meanings, Beliefs and Practices of Rural Dominicans in a Rural Village of the Dominican Republic: An Ethnonursing Study Conceptualized within the Culture Care Theory
The purpose of this ethnonursing study was to discover, describe and analyze the meanings, beliefs and practices of care for Dominican people living in a rural village of the Dominican Republic. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory and ethnonursing method was utilized as an …
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Culture Care Education and Experiences of African American Students in Predominantly Euro American Associate Degree Nursing Programs
The purpose of this ethnonursing study was to discover the cultural care education and experiences of African American students in predominantly Euro American Associate Degree Nursing Programs. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory was used as a framework to describe the …
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Use Of Action Research To Reduce The Theory-Practice Gap In A Nursing Course
… action research study explored the causes of a theory practice gap in a specialist post registration nursing course, studied in one geographical area in England, and set out to discover how it may be reduced. Educational and nursing literature was studied to focus the aims of the study. Research …
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Growing old on the farm: An Ethnonursing examination of aging and health within the Agrarian rural subculture
The purpose of this Ethnonursing study was to discover and explore the elder agrarian rural subculture in regard to well-being, health beliefs, values and practices. In depth interviews utilizing a semi-structured interview guide were carried out with eleven key and 23 general informants in a rural …
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