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The Omnipresence of Cancer: its implications for colorectal cancer

01 May 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

The Omnipresence of Cancer is a theory used to describe the experience of having colorectal cancer. It provides a framework that can be used by colorectal nurses to...

Prouty’s contact work: a carer’s perspective

01 September 2005

Mental Health Practice

General

Contact work (CW) was developed by Professor Garry Prouty in 1976 following many years of working with people who were diagnosed with schizophrenia and severe...

Supporting sustainable change

01 July 2006

Nursing Management

Applied leadership

Two generations ago, eminent economist john maynard keynes stated, in relation to implementing sustainable change in industrial economies, that ‘the difficulty lies,...

growing old with dignity: a concept analysis

01 June 2002

Nursing Older People

General

The term ‘dignity’ describes an attitude and approach to people that is integral to caring (Carper 1978), and users of healthcare services should expect their...

Endless evolution: how patterns of care shift over time

01 June 2006

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The Valuing People White Paper confirmed that the general health of people with learning disabilities is very poor (Department of Health 2001). Despite the...

Under the Brighton full moon: introduction

01 December 2004

Mental Health Practice

General

Long before man’s first lunar landing in July 1969 the moon has been an object of fascination. The belief that the moon is able to exert an influence on behaviour on...

Power over therapy? Mental health nursing in the Royal Navy

01 June 2006

Mental Health Practice

General

Recent National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance referred to the ‘therapeutic alliance’ and its relevance in therapy, especially in the treatment of...

Moving beyond mechanism: developments in cognitive and behavioural approaches to theory and practice of therapy

01 May 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is often viewed as a homogenous approach to the understanding and treatment of human distress and has been criticised as a...

instrumental passivity: a behavioural theory of dependence

01 April 2002

Nursing Older People

General

The instrumental passivity hypothesis (Baltes 1982, Baltes and Skinner 1983) argues that hospitals and nursing homes reinforce the dependent behaviours of older...

Are nursing theories holistic?

18 January 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Nursing theories, while claiming to present models of holistic nursing care, do not deal adequately with human spirituality. This article reviews several nursing...