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A nursing home is a long-term care facility that offers room and board and health care services, including basic and skilled nursing care, Nursing homes are often the only alternative for patients who require nursing...
Authors:Mila A. Aroskar, Anne J. Davis, and Theresa DroughtFrom:Encyclopedia of Bioethics
(Vol. 1. 3rd ed.)
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Ethics has received increased attention in nursing education programs; however, problems remain. This entry provides an overview of nursing ethics education in the United States and in other countries addressing both the...
20023 pages
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In 1990, the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) defined nursing diagnosis as "a clinical judgement about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes....
20134 pages
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Nursing education refers to formal learning and training in the science of nursing. This includes the functions and duties in the physical care of patients, and a combination of different disciplines that both accelerate...
20024 pages
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A nursing home is a long-term care facility that offers room and board and health care services, including basic and skilled nursing care, rehabilitation, and a full range of other therapies, treatments, and programs....
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••• Any theory or philosophy of nursing involves a quest for nursing identity. The quest that began in the last quarter of the twentieth century has been fostered by several factors, including nursing education's move...
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••• Care for the ill or injured has existed since the beginning of recorded history, but modern nursing, as it is now known, had its beginnings in the nineteenth century with Florence Nightingale, who viewed nursing as...
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To place nursing education into perspective, it is helpful to reflect on the health care environment and the role of the nurse in that environment. The health care landscape in the United States has been changing at an...
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••• The development of nursing ethics has paralleled the development of nursing as a profession. As nursing has evolved from the use of the rules of hygiene in caring for the sick (Nightingale) to a profession that...
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The decision to enter a nursing home is the most wrenching outcome of long-term-care decision making. It changes almost every aspect of the life of an elder, who moves to new surroundings, may acquire a perfect stranger...
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Public health nursing is a specialized form of registered nursing that combines nursing and public health principles. According to the American Public Health Association, the primary focus of public health nursing is...
20044 pages
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A nursing home is a long-term care facility licensed by the state that offers 24-hour room and board and health care services, including basic and skilled nursing care, rehabilitation, and a full range of other...
Authors:Thomas J. Fairchild and Janice A. KneblFrom:Encyclopedia of Aging
(Vol. 3. )
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Nursing facilities, commonly called nursing homes, serve a small percentage of older adults. These facilities continue to be in the public-policy spotlight because of efforts to redefine their position in the long-term...
20132 pages
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The Henderson theory of nursing encompasses a definition of nursing, a description of the function of a nurse, and the enumeration of the 14 components that make up basic nursing care. The Henderson theory of nursing...
20024 pages
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Nursing education refers to formal learning and training in the science of nursing. This includes the functions and duties in the physical care of patients, and a combination of different disciplines that both...
20044 pages
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A wet nurse is a woman who breast-feeds a child that is not her biological child. Although specific wet-nursing practices differed among countries from the fifteenth through the early twentieth centuries, diverse customs...
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Nursing homes are residential health care facilities that provide nursing care and supervision twenty-four hours per day. In addition to skilled nursing services, physical, occupational, and speech therapy are usually...
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Complementary therapies are treatment modalities originating outside of Western medical practices that are used in addition to traditional Western medical practices. Alternative therapies are treatment modalities used in...
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Nurses spend more time with patients who are facing the end of life (EOL) than any other member of the health care team. In hospice, nurses have been recognized as the cornerstone of palliative care, and it is...
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The King theory of nursing was developed by Imogene King and encompasses a conceptual framework of interacting systems (personal, interpersonal, and social systems), and a theory of goal attainment based on King's...
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A nursing home is a long-term care facility that offers room and board and health care services, including basic and skilled nursing care, Nursing homes are often the only alternative for patients who require nursing...
Ethics has received increased attention in nursing education programs; however, problems remain. This entry provides an overview of nursing ethics education in the United States and in other countries addressing both the...