Thoughts about conceptual models, theories, and quality improvement projects.

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate nurses' communications with patients, particularly regarding getting accurate and truthful information about their medical diagnosis and prognosis. This survey research involved 166 nurses and 435 patients at the Osmangazi University Hospital, Turkey. Although 90% of the ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Demirsoy N,Elcioglu O,Yildiz Z

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this column, the author describes imaginative capacities that encourage imaginative thinking and creating anew. Concepts from the nursing theory of humanbecoming are presented to further explore the applicability of focusing on cultivating the imagination in nursing curricula. A nursing seminar is proposed, entitle...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Bunkers SS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly philosophers and scientists have affirmed that all knowledge is theory-laden and that methods are theory-driven. These assertions raise important questions related to the role of theory in qualitative research. There are scholars who propose that qualitative research can enhance understanding and expand t...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Mitchell GJ,Cody WK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dialogue with Dr. Christine Esperat is about her project working with people in the community to establish transformation. She shares her vision and the process of developing a community-based health program. ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Clarke PN,Esperat C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article demonstrates how theoretical substruction with its various levels of abstraction can be used as a guide for theory testing research. The article describes a method for substructing research hypotheses as well as an entire study. Substruction and its benefits, including assuring the internal consistency of...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： McQuiston CM,Campbell JC

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this column, the human becoming practice methodology is illuminated and some of the questions that people have asked about living the art of human becoming are presented. The human becoming teaching-learning processes are discussed as a way of coming to know what it takes to live true presence, and the role of stor...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Bournes DA,Naef R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through advances in interpretive inquiry, diverse ways of knowing and experiencing reality are increasingly made explicit in nursing literature. Nevertheless, the privileges of empiricism continue alongside a lack of language to consider other realms of reality. In this column, Aboriginal ways of constituting health a...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Arnold OF,Bruce A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of women in the military related to the prevention of pregnancy. Ten single women, ages 19 to 24, volunteered to be participants. They were interviewed over a 12-week period in a private setting at a military clinic. The results of the study were that their deci...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Chung-Park MS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conducting studies at the end of life is often challenging for researchers due to the sensitive nature of the research, the vulnerability of the participants and the inherent methodological complexities. Methodological challenges include identifying and gaining access to eligible research participants, estimating the ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Kavanaugh KL,Campbell ML

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing theories are like myths, in that they contain symbolic representations that tell a story about nursing, and these stories represent or explain nursing's image, worldview, beliefs, and practices. Five theories are analyzed to identify the myths that they represent. It is proposed that uncovering the myth in nur...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Pilkington FB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning and nature of the yangsaeng experience, a caring intervention, through the dietary practices among a group of Korean women. The participants were 14 generally healthy women between 30 and 74 years of age who were attending a class for homemakers or members of a wome...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Yang JH,Shin KR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay addresses the name of our discipline. Discussion of the use of the term, nursology, focuses on the origin of the term, its use as a name for our discipline and its use as a research method and a practice methodology. Advantages and disadvantages of nursology as the name for our discipline are gleaned from P...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Fawcett J,Aronowitz T,AbuFannouneh A,Al Usta M,Fraley HE,Howlett MS,Mtengezo JT,Muchira JM,Nava A,Thapa S,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this column is to present the plan of a research project involving researchers, artists, and research participants. The planned research project will explore with the Parse method eight universal lived experiences important to persons in community. It is anticipated that art works will complement story ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Mitchell GJ,Halifax ND

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to contribute to clarifying the ontology of the discipline by extending existing meanings of the term nursing to propose a substantive definition. In this definition, nursing is viewed as an inherent human process of well-being, manifested by complexity and integration in human systems. ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Reed PG

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theme of this paper is the need to address the central question in nursing science. It is hypothesized that in the absence of a central, unifying question, the view of nursing as an applied science, the current research methodological debate, and the social policy statement definition of nursing have hindered nurs...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Packard SA,Polifroni EC

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptation to chronic illness framework, an elaboration of the Roy adaptation model for chronic illness, provided direction for a program of nursing research. The purposes of investigations within the program were (a) to identify predictors of adaptation to chronic illnesses and (b) to determine whether the relati...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Pollock SE

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The necessity of having peer review is the subject of this column. To that end, the nature of truth, standards by which quantitative and qualitative research studies are judged, and predatory publishing are considered along with an example of the adverse impact of scientific misconduct. Finally, a call for more intens...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Florczak KL

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infant born prior to the completion of term gestation faces many challenges in order to merely survive in the extrauterine environment. A preterm birth is also a time of extreme crisis for the family. There is a great need for the refinement of nursing practice models for neonatal intensive care nursing, to assure...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Mefford LC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors highlight approaches used in implementing tribal policy to provide a successful culturally-based modification of dialectical behavior therapy in the Suquamish Native American Tribe. The modified program was called Healthy and Whole. This work fostered greater tribal community resiliency despite the serious...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Kinsey K,Reed PG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nurse-person relationship is sometimes regarded as the essence of professional nursing practice. Many biomedical nursing definitions and connotations have emerged over time for what it means to practice professional nursing with boundaries in a therapeutic nurse-person relationship. In this column the author compa...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Milton CL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors of this paper explore the distress that terminally ill children experience when they see the suffering their illness and dying is causing their parents. The authors refer to this experience as special sorrow. The conceptual framework that guides this reflection of the terminally ill child's experience is t...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Velasco-Whetsell M,Baumann SL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author in this column explores implications of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico British Petroleum oil spill for human-environment-health. One aim was to acknowledge the continuing occurrences of catastrophe affecting human-environment-health that are greatly compounded due to lack of regulation and enforcement, lack of inf...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Kagan PN

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Florence Nightingale made a profound statement about leadership when she returned from the Crimean War without the fanfare offered to her. Promoters paraded her empty carriage around the city of Southampton England to applaud her accomplishments in the war. Her absence signaled a new leadership, one of quiet determina...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Hegge M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report of an interview of Betty Neuman, founder of the Neuman systems model, that took place at the 13(th) Neuman Systems Model Symposium in June 2011. The interview, conducted by Jacqueline Fawcett, included questions submitted by Neuman systems model trustees Sarah Beckman, Barbara Cammuso, Marlou de Kuipe...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Neuman B

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health has been described as a central concept and the goal of nursing. The incongruence between that centrality in nursing and in other disciplines and the public's view is discussed. Other issues and views of health also are considered, including diversity and unity in conceptualizing health, the social nature and s...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Meleis AI

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This column is a review of the use of the term transparency as it relates to healthcare with specific emphasis on nursing practice. Concept analysis is guided by Parse's concept inventing approach. The relevance of this concept to nursing has become increasing important in the language of healthcare. There is no stand...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Horne C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of paradox is central to Parse's human becoming theory. Joy-sorrow is an example of a paradoxical pattern of human becoming which was earlier investigated by Parse, using her research method. Here, the concept is revisited and further explored in light of selected literature, including a classic work on grief...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Pilkington FB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This introduces the guest author's column on perspectives on the development of leaders in science. The need for leadership in science is discussed and a model for the development of science leaders in nursing is outlined. ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Ortiz MR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This column supports the global mantra to develop mechanisms that address the worldwide crisis in patient safety and demonstrates, using nursing as an example, that the mechanisms currently being developed are too limited. Patient safety initiatives must be expanded to acknowledge and make ways to minimize mis-takes, ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Bournes DA,Flint F

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suffering involves the loss of acceptable meaning and nourishing connection. How nurses are present to those who suffer makes a significant difference. In a context where sustained engagement with the sufferer is crucial but often neglected, important questions for educators arise. These include how to cultivate moral...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Johnston NE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00