Stress: Concepts, Theoretical Models and Nursing Interventions

Concepts , Theoretical Models and Nursing Theories : Integrative Review REVIEW

Methods and Findings: An integrative review was performed on the website of the journal Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, via ScieLO, from 2005 to 2014. The sample included 21 studies that addressed the application, analysis, construction, validation or reflection on concepts, theoretical models and nursing theories. Of the publications, 42.8% came from the Northeast region and 76.2% contemplated th...

Terror management theory: Theoretical concepts, experimental research and Critics

Terror management theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski & Solomon, 1986) considers the desire for survival as the underlying motivation for human behavior. Given his cognitive capacity and ability to think abstractly about the future, man realizes that his death is inevitable, which causes Paralysing terror. Man has developed certain psychological structures to protect himself from this terror. A cult...

identity and ir theoretical concepts

identity has emerged gradually within contemporary debates in social science and has led to vivid debates in international relations. the aim of this article is to show how identity, or identity-oriented approach, may affect fundamental theoretical concepts of ir. at first the importance of identity in theoretical and meta-theoretical debates in ir is discussed. then identity itself is conceptu...

Development of Detailed Clinical Models for Nursing Assessments and Nursing Interventions

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop and validate Detailed Clinical Models (DCMs) for nursing assessments and interventions. METHODS First, we identified the nursing assessment and nursing intervention entities. Second, we identified the attributes and the attribute values in order to describe the entities in more detail. The data type and optionality of the attributes were then de...

Basic Theoretical Concepts