The importance of continuing education for nurses has been increasingly emphasized in the nursing literature since the beginning of the profession. The concept of continuing education is often used as a substitute for associated terms such as continuing professional development and lifelong learning, thus highlighting a need for its clarification. The purpose of this article is to explain and d...

This paper proposes a new method of calculating the proportion of permanently impoverished persons among persons in poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers & Rodgers (1993). The characteristic...

Abstract Well-being has received increasing attention from researchers and policymakers, its promotion could be considered pivotal to handle the challenges of aging populations. However, many different well-being concepts have been used inconsistently, it remains unclear what concept refers among oldest segments population. Hence, there is a need for more cohesive understanding meaning in this ...

background: professionalism is an important feature of the professional jobs. dynamic nature and the various interpretations of thisterm lead to multiple defi nitions of this concept. the aim of this paper is to identify the core attributes of the nursing professionalism. materials and methods: we followed rodgers’ evolutionary method of concept analysis. texts published in scientifi c database...

This was a report of a concept analysis of body image of people living with HIV/AIDS. Rodgers`s evolutionary method of concept analysis was used. Data were collected from published literature related to body image of people living with HIV/AIDS. Body image of people living with HIV/AIDS was identified with two antecedents and one attribute, and two consequences. The antecedents of the body imag...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to clarify the concept of continuity of care during the end of life with a focus on the patient's perspective. METHODS Rodgers' method of evolutionary concept analysis was used. The analysis was based on literature published in English in the databases Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Medline, and PsycINFO. FINDINGS Analysis re...

The study aimed at identifying and analyzing the meaning of concept according to Deleuze, in Philosophy, and Rodgers, in Nursing. Based on an extract of reality, Deleuze creates the concept and calls it "plan of immanence". For Rodgers, in nursing, the concept emerges at the actual moment one wishes to construct the conceptual bases for Nursing. The authors demonstrate that, although Deleuze an...

AIM 'Othering' is described as a social process whereby a dominant group or person uses negative attributes to define and subordinate others. Literature suggests othering creates exclusive relationships and puts patients at risk for suboptimal care. A concept analysis delineating the properties of othering was conducted to develop knowledge to support inclusionary practices in nursing. DESIGN...