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Essential Nursing Care For The Sole, Teresa A. Miller
Essential Nursing Care For The Sole, Teresa A. Miller
Theses and Graduate Projects
This paper illuminates the transformational journey experienced while exploring nursing practice involvement in essential holistic foot care as a Doctor of Nursing-Transcultural Nursing (DNP-TCN) practice project. The underlying theoretical framework is based on the relational caring complexity theory by Marilyn A. Ray and Marian C. Turkel, depicting model complexity concepts essential to holistic health and wellness nursing foot cares. As an advanced practice nurse, this practice shift is an assertion of health and wellness essentials in the model of holistic nursing, as foot health is tied to the health of the physical body and spiritual soul of the living. Individual …
Honoring Others By Accompaniment, Merrilee Brown
Honoring Others By Accompaniment, Merrilee Brown
Theses and Graduate Projects
Nurses recognize that access to healthcare for marginalized individuals prevents some from utilizing western medicine basic health services. People living in the margins can experience difficult encounters to healthcare as a system and a culture. Providers in Scott County that offer access to the marginalized are referred to as safety net services, lack individual choice, resource coordination, or a health partnership with individuals struggling in their daily lives. public Health Nurses recognize the need for intentional collaboration among providers. This project began with a Hispanic individual who had accessed all safety net providers in Scott County and still was not …
Reclaiming Our Sacredness As Nurse Healers, Lani L. Hollenbeck
Reclaiming Our Sacredness As Nurse Healers, Lani L. Hollenbeck
Theses and Graduate Projects
The nurse-patient relationship encompasses the richness of being in a relationship with another human being. When viewed through a healthcare lens a patient's health, illness, and healing are often defined by procedural testing, diagnosis, and a plan for treatment. Within the community of professional nurses, it is known that healing involves more than an attempt to physically repair the human body. The use of nursing theory, caring science, and recognition of the patient in their wholeness guides nursing practice. Nurses incorporate the use of experiential wisdom (metis) in caring for the life force of another human being in the effort …
Uncertainty In Nursing: The Impact On Practice And Leadership, Sarah R. Orde
Uncertainty In Nursing: The Impact On Practice And Leadership, Sarah R. Orde
Theses and Graduate Projects
Nurses experience uncertainty in practice due to the fast paced, complex nature of the healthcare system. Uncertainty in nursing practice has a direct influence on patient care, as well as personal well-being of the nurse, and his or her engagement and retention in the workplace. This paper describes a project intended to help nurses identify and cope with uncertainty in practice on an adult medical inpatient unit at a major Midwestern healthcare facility. The project is illustrated through a conceptual model of coping with uncertainty as guided by Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC). The model identifies …
Overcoming Knowledge Gaps In Use Of Capnography In A Post Anesthesia Care Unit: A Project Proposal, Glen Meyer
Overcoming Knowledge Gaps In Use Of Capnography In A Post Anesthesia Care Unit: A Project Proposal, Glen Meyer
Theses and Graduate Projects
The use of capnography plays a significant role in patient safety while recovering from anesthesia and sedation. Capnography has been used for many years in emergency departments, operation suites, and procedural areas. However, in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) capnography is rarely utilized. This proposed project explores the use of capnography in developing a project proposal and implementing an educational module to change this practice in a PACU. Dr. Watson's Transpersonal Caring Theory is used as the theoretical foundation for developing the project proposal. Within this project proposal an educational module will be developed using Dr. Watson's Theoretical concepts …