In this article, the author presents a review of the 8th edition of Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care edited by Mason and colleagues (2021). The book provides comprehensive insights into ...policy and politics in nursing and healthcare with a foundation of extensive practical information, highlighting the significance of nursing leadership. It prompted the author to reflect on the crucial role of nursing knowledge in shaping nursing policy, and to explore nursing leadership and policies through the distinct lens of the humanbecoming leading-following model.
The Nursing Theory-Guided Practice Expert Panel (NTGP-EP), one of the 14 Expert Panels, is officially designated to advance the mission and strategic goals of the American Academy of Nursing. The ...NTGP-EP has created a forum for dialogue among nurse scholars interested in advancing nursing theory to promote health and wellbecoming. The purpose of this paper is to share the important work of the NTGP-EP and its history, contributions, and accomplishments, and to propose a member-driven agenda to re-envision our preferred future and the impact of the use of nursing theory to guide nursing education, research, practice, and policy.
The author in this article provides introduction to the eighth edition of Dossey & Keegan’s Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, reflecting on holistic nursing as an essence of nursing ...philosophies.
The author here introduces Graham McCaffrey’s Nursing and Humanities, exploring the relevance of nursing and humanities and contemplating the significance of nursing science as a human science.
With an ageing global population, healthcare systems confront challenges unique to the elderly. Current care models primarily manage health–illness shifts but frequently miss developmental ...transitions, particularly for older adults. Meleis’s transition theory offers an underutilized framework to rejuvenate our gerontogeriatric nursing approach. This article aims to articulate and advocate the value of Meleis’s transition theory as a framework for gerontogeriatric nursing, focusing on developmental transitions, thereby seeking a transformative change in the quality of elderly care. The article delves into Meleis’s transition theory’s vital components—transition types, conditions, and nursing therapeutics. It explores how these can be a multifaceted guide for gauging and overseeing ageing’s developmental shifts; adopting this theoretical perspective deepens our comprehension and bears tangible implications. Nurses versed in this theory could appreciate the benefits of a nuanced approach to the elderly, distinguishing it from the conventional biomedical stance. As the demands of an ageing populace grow, the integration of Meleis’s transition theory into nursing practices is not merely beneficial but imperative, setting a new standard for comprehensive and specialized elderly care.
In the article that follows the authors present information focused on nursing care delivery involving intimate partner violence and how to structure, evaluate, and improve nursing care. The authors ...chose the structure of Virginia Henderson’s nature of nursing to evaluate nursing care and review the paradoxes and patterns lived in a journey of improving nursing care. This brings to light the importance of paradoxes and patterns of nursing care and the importance of utilizing a nursing theory-based approach.
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