will influence change in America’s healthcare system as the rates for diseases such as osteoporosis begin to rise. In the article titled, “Application of the Health Belief Model for Osteoporosis Prevention among Middle School Girl Students, Garmsar, Iran,” the authors assessed the effectiveness of a health education intervention based on the health belief model. Their focus was on reducing the risk of osteoporosis development in female adolescents. Osteoporosis is a disease which is common in older
this essay is twofold, firstly to review the literature on the various models of disability and apply these to describe the challenges that a young girl, Susan is likely to encounter in South Africa. Susan was born with Spina Bifida and is wheelchair bound. Secondly I will aim to link these applications to my thoughts, feelings and behaviors on disability as well as the impact therof in terms of my development as an integrated health professional. The literature applied to the scenario Disability can
Caring is the model often used to guide and direct nursing care as well as to improve nursing practice through a better understanding of the role and function of the professional nurse. It is an important theory to the nursing world because it brings meaning and focus to nursing as an emerging discipline and distinct health profession that has its own unique values, knowledge, and practices. It is important to our group because we read an article on infertile women in Turkey and the case studies were
Running head: MY PERSONAL NURSING THEORY OF PRACTICE: A MODEL OF NURSING PRAXIS My Personal Nursing Theory of Practice: A Model of Nursing Praxis Oseni O. Abiri University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama The gap in the demand and supply for healthcare services in the US and around the world are believed to facilitate the development of advance practice nursing (APN) (Kilpatrick, 2008) and this is the motivation for my pursuance of an APN (i.e. NP) degree. The factors
material relating to the topic, using a detailed theoretical method of application. There were limitations when locating sources relating specifically to this chosen field of research, especially in New Zealand. Internationally, the content of video games and the risks of exposure to violence is the most explored in this field. The topic of content and violence in video games has been removed for this analysis to narrow it to the health and wellbeing effects of gaming caused by excessive use and screen
through the proper use of the nursing process. With health care as a universal human right, it encompasses a process that involves a collaborative care of people of all ages and communities in all settings. Nursing is essential in promoting health, prevention of illness, care of the sick and disabled people in the society. Nursing advocates for the promotion of a safe environment, research, shaping health policies, education and patient health management systems. The philosophy of nursing examines
DECIDE model by Thompson, Melia & Boyd (Allen, Chapman, Francis, & O’Connor, 2008, p. 5) and the Integrated ethical decision-making model which was derived from the combination of the different ethical decision-making models strengths (Park, 2012, p. 140). These two ethical decision-making model steps are identical to each but differ on the detailed instruction on how the steps are to be done or used in actual case. By comparing the two models the integrated ethical decision-making model have a detailed
Identify a nursing theory: I have chosen the ‘Humans as an Adaptive System Theory” by Sister Callista Roy. It is a middle range nursing theory. Nursing theories are a set of definitions, concepts, assumptions, phenomena and relationships that are used to explain different aspects of the nursing profession. Nursing models are developed by linking these widely accepted theories to science and philosophy, for practical application in nursing. Nursing theories and model has helped to develop nursing into
ubiquitous notification assistant. Additionally, it presents a probabilistic decision support model to tackle the runtime uncertainty. A brief account of our DDN model is also presented in this section. A. QoC-awareness in smart notification assistant The actions of the smart notification assistant are influenced by the uncertainty involved while processing multiple context types at runtime, in this case the locality and availability of the caregiver. As context data is extremely volatile, it requires
attributes, identifying the model case, identifying borderline, related, contrary, invented, and illegitimate cases, identifying antecedents and consequences, and defining empirical referents (Walker & Avant, 2005). The following is an examination of the concept analysis procedure developed by Walker and Avant as applied to the article Homophobia in Nursing: A Concept Analysis by Martin Christensen. Selecting a concept is the first step in the 8-step analysis procedure. The chosen concept should be one