Recently added articles from Research and Theory for Nursing Practice:
A Call to Action (or Not) for Nurses
Oct 01, 2008; Algase, Donna L ... At a recent meeting that I attended, the dinner speaker gave an interesting presentation on the "Voice of Nursing" over time. Her main point was that nursing's voice as a profession has seldom been unified and that this fact often works against our progress in a political sense. However, her ...
High Reliability Organizations: Implications for Nursing Knowledge Development
Oct 01, 2008; Redman, Richard W ... One of the most challenging goals health care organizations face today is how to create practice environments that ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality safe care to all patients. A number of major reports over the past 10 years have documented safety issues in health care. A landmark ...
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
Oct 01, 2008; Levin, Rona F ... In a previous column, "EBP by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose" (Levin, 2008), I briefly mentioned the need to describe the practice problem that clinicians observe, intuit, or otherwise believe exists. I will devote this column to a greater explication of describing the practice problem, first ...
The Transformative Potential of Realigning Agape and Eros in the Continued Development of Nursing's Role
Oct 01, 2008; Valentine-Maher, Sarah ... Nursing may reach its highest potential when there is an integration of Agape love and Eros love within nursing. That is, an ontological framework from which service and giving of the self are aligned with creative power and development of the self. The concepts of Eros and Agape give the nurse ...
Community Health Action Model: Health Promotion by the Community
Oct 01, 2008; Racher, Frances E; Annis, Robert C ... The goal of the Community Health Action (CHA) model is to depict community health promotion processes in a manner that can be implemented by community members to achieve their collectively and collaboratively determined actions and outcomes to sustain or improve the health and well-being of ...
Self-Efficacy and Social Support as Mediators Between Culturally Specific Dance and Lifestyle Physical Activity
Oct 01, 2008; Murrock, Carolyn J; Madigan, Elizabeth ... Culturally specific dance has the potential to generate health benefits but is seldom used even among studies advocating culturally specific interventions. This study examined the components of self-efficacy and social support as mediators between culturally specific dance and lifestyle physical ...
Theoretical Substruction Illustrated by the Theory of Learned Resourcefulness
Oct 01, 2008; Bekhet, Abir K; Zauszniewski, Jaclene A ... This article describes the process of theoretical substruction and uses this process to examine the significance of Rosenbaum's resourcefulness theory for nursing research and practice. The article discusses relocation as a phenomenon of interest to gero-psychiatric nurses working with elders ...