Abstract This paper scrutinizes the question of whether or not nursing should be referred to as a profession. The final conclusion shall be made after extensively reviewing the qualities of a profession proposed by Joel and Kelly in their book. The paper begins with an abstract that clearly summarizes the whole work, which later is […] Read more >>
Introduction Health care systems in the world constantly undergo major administrative restructuring. As a result, the systems expose people to the risks that dehumanize patient care. Considering caring to be principal for nursing, nurses must strive to make conscious efforts to preserve human caring within the administrative, clinical, research, or educational practice. Changes in health […] Read more >>
Tom Craig Olson and Eileen Walsh are famous writers and scientists who became famous after publishing their book Handling the Sick: The Women of St. Luke’s and the Nature of Nursing, 1892-1937 in 2004. Eileen Walsh wrote a number of books dedicated to different practical issues in the field of general biology. Tom Olson’s most famous book […] Read more >>
The famous book Daring to Care written by Susan Gelfand Malka analyzes the impact of the second wave of feminism on a nursing sphere that began in the 1960s. According to the author, this movement gave autonomy and professional status to nurses. Malka (2007) marks two periods in the history of nursing. The first period she […] Read more >>
Culture refers to the way of life of a given group. The term way of life concerns their traditional practices, beliefs, organization, among other social factors that give a particular group a unique identity. Culture encompasses all aspects of people’s life, including their social interaction as transferred from one generation to another. These research papers […] Read more >>
Patient Evaluation This paper seeks to evaluate the developmental, sociocultural, spiritual, and psychological variables of A. H., who is 32 years old, married and has one daughter. The family are Christians and A. H. works in a hospital as a clinical technician/nurse’s aide. The patient has a brother and a sister. Both his father and […] Read more >>
Jean Watson Theory Overview of the Theorist’s Background Jean Watson is a theorist who specializes in sensitizing the need to incorporate, human caring, emotions and subjective feelings in the field of nursing. Her formulation of the theory of human care was aimed at ensuring that human caring becomes part and parcel of nursing. The core […] Read more >>
A great deal has been documented on reflective practice over the years, and it has been heralded by some as a radical new methodology to extend education and practice. According to Basford and Slevin (2012, p. 483), reflective practice dates back to Socrates, who encouraged his pupils to find solutions to philosophical problems from within […] Read more >>
Nursing is a definite professional discipline (Alligood, 2013, p. 22). It presupposes that patients should be provided with individualized high-quality care in order to fulfill their personalized requirements. Thus, the ability to achieve this objective as a health professional, it is highly important to ground individual nursing services on the four fundamental metaparadigms that universally […] Read more >>
Abstract This paper presents a critique of nursing theory. A case of Florence Nightingale’s Environmental theory has been selected and the main ideas and assumptions discussed. The origin of the theory, its testability, and its usefulness in nursing practice are also tackled. Introduction Nursing is a science that focuses on improving the health and healing […] Read more >>
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