Gayle Roux, PhD, RN, CNS, FNP, received her BSN from University of Nebraska, and her MS and PhD in Nursing from Texas Women's University. She has been employed in various aspects of women's care including childbearing, family planning, and women's health. Currently, she practices as a family nurse practitioner and is faculty at Texas Woman's University. Dr. Roux's area of research is focused on inner strength in women living with chronic health conditions such as breast cancer. She lives in Dallas
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Trauma, Development, and Spirituality According to the American Association of Children’s Residential Centers (AACRC), trauma is considered to be the result of occurrences of mental or physical injury such as sexual or physical abuse sexual abuse, seeing brutality, or natural tragedy (AACRC, 2014). But trauma is not limited to events per se; alternatively, trauma can also be brought about by occurrences of daily living that are emotional in nature and not quite as obvious. Traumatic stress can
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make up worldviews and different theories and suggestions as well. Things such as spirituality, pluralism, scientism, postmodernism, prime reality, human personhood, death and afterlife, epistemology, ethics, and human history all play important parts in a person or culture’s worldview. Spirituality often plays a big role in our worldview and can have many different meanings as well. One way to define spirituality would be to say that it gives meaning to one's life, and does not necessarily have
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There are four key components in nursing that make up the metaparadigm of Watson’s Theory of Caring model. Human being, or person, is the first major concept described in the metaparadigm, and is defined as “the unity of mind-body-spirit” (Watson, 2008, p. 246). The second concept is health, and represents the overall physical and mental aspects, as well as social functioning that patients need in order to obtain genuine holistic care (Petiprin, 2015, Philosophy and Science of Caring section, para
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is an essential component of the nurse patient relationship. 2. COMPETENCE: Competence is acquiring and using evidence-based scientific and humanistic knowledge and skill in the application of therapeutic interventions in the current practice of nursing. Competence is reflected in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of learning. It is the knowledge of the role of the nurse in the health care delivery systems of the hospital and the community. 3. CONSCIENCE: Conscience directs moral,
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Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V Healing hospitals contain three main components, a healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology, and a culture of radical loving care (Eberst, 2008). Spirituality is the religion or the individual’s identified experience in relation to their reality. The healing hospital philosophy incorporates the physical body with the spiritual mind and spirit of the individual to provide the best care possible. A healing
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Esther C. Moore Admissions Essay April 15, 2013. Why I Want to Attend LSN My philosophy of nursing comes directly from my desire to help people. I want to be a nurse because I enjoy being around people in their times of need and I get internal satisfaction by serving those that need help. I remember when I did some volunteer work for a nursing home and that was when I realized my passion for nursing. I believe that the cure for many of the people's ailments is not just in medicine, it is in the
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Methodological differences between questionnaire & interviews are seen as having differing & possibility complementary strengths & weaknesses. While questionnaires are usually views as a more objective research tool that can produce generalizable results because of large sample sizes, results can be threatened by many factors including: faulty questionnaire design; sampling and non – responses errors; biased, questionnaire design & wording; respondent unreliability; ignorance, misunderstanding
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Life Mission Marjorie G. Rizzo Southeastern Louisiana University College of Nursing and Health Sciences NURS 333 September 28, 2015 LIFE MISSION 2 A Life Mission Choosing to pursue a career in nursing represents the commitment I have to live in accordance with my values. A nursing career constitutes a large part of my overall mission in life. A mission that acquires more dimensions as I learn more of what nursing entails. Experiences and Decisions My experiences have taught me the wisdom
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NU1505: HEALTH, SOCIETY AND CARE PROVISION INDIVIDUAL CASE STUDY (Word Count: 3,300) Introduction The author is intending to conduct a patient case study based on the care provision and elements of care that will focus on appraisal of the nursing model, socially or culturally as well as the presence of health awareness and promotion of the individual patient. The author will reflect on the identified frequent needs of an individual patient on a regular basis. The author will look at perceptions
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