Nursing Science, Nursing Theory: Nurse Atheists, Nurse Agnostics, Nurse Theists

The Naïve nurse: revisiting vulnerability for nursing

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Nurses in the Western world have given considerable attention to the concept of vulnerability in recent decades. However, nurses have tended to view vulnerability from an individualistic perspective, and have rarely taken into account structural or collective dimensions of the concept. As the need grows for health workers to engage in the global health agenda, nurses mu...

Applying nursing theory to the practice of nurse anesthesia.

With the current movement of anesthesia education into graduate programs, changes in curriculum are inevitable. These changes will include advanced nursing theory. How the issues of nursing theory apply to the practice of nurse anesthesia are examined. Applications of Betty Neuman's systems theory are used in specific examples of the anesthesia role. The profession of nurse anesthesia may benef...

Standardized Nursing Data and the Oncology Nurse.

Oncology nurses are experts in conducting comprehensive assessments of symptoms and patient responses to treatments, but documentation in electronic health records frequently results in data that cannot be readily shared or compared because of a lack of standardization of the terms. Standardized nursing terminology can enhance communication among nurses and between nurses and other members of t...

Nurse practitioner role: nursing needs it.

Nurse Competence of Graduating Nursing Students

4 Satu Kajander-Unkuri NURSE COMPETENCE OF GRADUATING NURSING STUDENTS Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Painosalama Oy, Turku 2015