Nursing models are often promoted as a way of advancing nursing science or leading to a more coherent view of nursing. However, the purpose of any model is to most accurately reflect reality in a way ...

A half century ago, a nursing graduate student developed an idea that the goal of nursing practice was to promote patient adaptation. She theorized that a patient is a being of interrelated components ...

This article will introduce readers to a new philosophy of advanced practice nursing that incorporates not only the medical model to inform patient care, but also the tenets of caring as an art and ...

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