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Saturday, November 21, 2009

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice.

29 Nov 2009 The therapeutic nature of the nurse-patient relationship is grounded in an ethic of caring. Florence Nightingale envisioned nursing as an art and a science...a blending of humanistic, caring presence with evidence-based knowledge and exquisite ... Read more...

Art, science, or both? Keeping the care in nursing.

29 Nov 2009 Nursing is widely considered as an art and a science, wherein caring forms the theoretical framework of nursing. Nursing and caring are grounded in a relational understanding, unity, and connection between the professional nurse and the patient. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nursing Theory'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice. 29 Nov 2009
• Art, science, or both? Keeping the care in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Theoretical frameworks and concept development. 30 Aug 2009
• [The day clinic, from experience to tentative theorization] 30 Aug 2009
• [Collaboration between science and practice: experiences of conducting a nursing intervention study] 30 Aug 2009
• Measuring spiritual care with informatics. 29 Jun 2009
• Caring for special populations: total pain theory in advanced heart failure: applications to research and practice. 29 Jun 2009
• A theoretical death? 29 Jun 2009
• [Chronically ill, a lifelong responsibility, regarded from 3 different perspectives. Friedmann family and environment relevant nursing (1)] 29 Jun 2009
• What should we assess in practice? 29 Jun 2009
• Lived religion: implications for nursing ethics. 29 Jun 2009
• Grasping the nutritional situation: a grounded theory study of patients' experiences in intensive care. 29 Jun 2009
• The perpetual search for parsimony: enhancing the epistemological and practical utility of qualitative research findings. 9 Jun 2009
• [An interprofessional or an interdisciplinary problem? Distinctions to develop an analytical scheme of interdisciplinarity based on the case of a long-term care hospital] 30 May 2009
• [An analysis of professional practice as a means to enhance one's skills: theoretical basis, actual process and associated limitations] 30 May 2009
• [Domains in the clinical practice of Clinical Nursing Experts in Germany and their correspondence with the internationally described "Advanced Nursing Practice"] 30 May 2009
• [Dialogal phenomenology in the context of nursing science, a critical examination of a rather unknown research method] 30 May 2009
• Teaching to the three apprenticeships: designing learning activities for professional practice in an undergraduate curriculum. 26 May 2009
• The influence of concept-based learning activities on students' clinical judgment development. 26 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Nursing Theory'

Definition: Concepts, definitions, and propositions applied to the study of various phenomena which pertain to nursing and nursing research.

Descriptor UI: D009742

Alternative terms: Nursing Theory; Theory, Nursing; Nursing Theories; Theories, Nursing;

Related Mesh Headings: Models, Nursing;

Tree Number: H02.478.408;

History Note: 86

Technical Notes: no qualif; DF: NURS THEORY