In summary, nursing models can be evaluated by carefully considering how human beings are conceptualised within a model, how adequately the model guides nurses in the decision-making associated with all stages of the nursing process and how appropriate is the expected role of the nurse. Reference to ...

At the present time nurse education is facing a number of upheavals which have major implications for curriculum development. No hard and fast rules governing the approach to educating learners about nursing theory and nursing models can be made. This paper has generated a number of suggestions whic ...

The foregoing exposition suggests a global approach to evaluate theoretical thinking in nursing. Several issues have come to light in examining the current status of nursing's theoretical work within the proposed framework. In most of the theoretical pieces of work in nursing, major threads of theor ...

Elderly people are a vulnerable group and they should be recognised as a specific group for the purpose of health delivery services and health promotion. Health care services for the elderly need to be fully integrated with primary health care. Primary health care approaches should be directed to em ...

Measures are being taken which will make it possible for relatives to become more involved in family caregiving. Public efforts are regarded as a complement to family caregiving. Health personnel have started to change their attitudes toward relatives and look at them as an important source for the ...

The Heritage Assessment Tool, in combination with questions relating to health and illness beliefs and practices was helpful in helping informants remember events in their childhood and also in garnishing health and illness beliefs and practices. The richness of the data in respect to health beliefs ...

The hospitalized elderly patient presents a complex challenge to the acute care nurse. The opportunity to improve the quality of life for the aged patient exists in every nurse-patient interaction. Through research, continued education and a commitment to professional values this challenge can be me ...

Given the multiple diseases and vulnerability of the elderly to develop adverse drug effects, it is incumbent on the nurse to monitor and critically evaluate the patient's conditions. Attempts must be made to further develop and/or refine existing systematic process to delineate and prevent drug-rel ...