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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"science of unitary human beings"”.
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An Investigation of the Relationships Between and Among Power, Trust and Job Satisfaction of Nurse Managers in Acute Care Hospitals Using Rogers Science of Unitary Human Beings
… as control and freedom, power is often characterized as hierarchical. Power-as-freedom exists as a unitary manifestation of the whole and is acausal. Thus a worldview that emphasizes mutual process rather than a causal (control) view supports a culture of trust in the healthcare …
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Characteristics of a healing environment as described by expert nurses who practice within the conceptual framework of Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings: A qualitative study\r\n
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe characteristics of a healing environment from a nursing perspective. This qualitative study was conducted using an interpretive descriptive method consistent with a naturalistic inquiry model. A purposeful sample of 9 expert nurses who practice …
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Relations Amongst Power, Self-Health Patterning, and Quality of Life in Older Adults with Chronic Illness
<p>The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between power, self-health patterning, and quality of life in older adults with chronic illness using Rogers’ science of unitary human beings and Barrett’s theory of power. A cross-sectional, correlational design was used to examine the …
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The Life Pattern of People with Spinal Cord Injury
<p>This aim of this study was to answer the research question: "What is the Life Pattern of the Person with Spinal Cord Injury?" The unitary appreciative inquiry design, which has conceptualized through Rogers' (1986) science of unitary human beings, provided an approach for understanding the …
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Development and pilot testing of two bowel management scales
The goal of this study was to identify the benefits of breast-feeding for the mother, in order to facilitate continuing to breast-feed to 6 months. A theory of participation in an enlightening experience was deduced from the theory of enlightenment which was derived from Rogers' science of unitary …
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Feeling Overwhelmed: The Lived Experience of Nurse Managers.
… qualitative study explored the lived experience of feeling overwhelmed by 6 nurse managers currently working in an inpatient hospital environment. Interviews were analyzed using a modified version of the descriptive-interpretive phenomenological method as described by van Manen. Four essential …
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Exploring the Relationships of Power, Attitudes regarding Intermittent Fetal Monitoring, and Perceived Barriers to Research Utilization with a Labor and Delivery Nurse's Attitude toward Patient Advocacy
… in nursing practice was the routine use of continuous fetal monitoring (CEFM) with low risk laboring women. CEFM is associated with worsened outcomes for the low risk laboring woman with no benefit to the newborn. In addition, this routine practice does not allow most laboring women the …
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The Use of Music as an Adjunct therapy to Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease: A Pilot Interventon Study
<p>The purpose of this quantitative research study was to examine the effects of music on the pain experienced in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) which is one of the most prevalent genetic disorders in the United States. The pathophysiology of the disease is related to the sickling nature of abnormal red …
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Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek
… die. Yet, details regarding children’s days of living as dying are unknown. The aim of this qualitative hermeneutic study is to gain understanding of the phenomenon of <em>living as a dying child. </em>A Gadamerian-inspired approach was implemented to underpin the study, and to analyze poetic …