This is a retrospective examination of efforts to clarify the nature, the form and structure of nursing science. This accounting is a sample of the work done by me and my colleagues to understand nursing science. This sample may serve as a guide to nurses who seek to understand nursing science and the nature of work required in its development.

Construct equivalence is a necessary condition for establishing validity in comparative cross-cultural studies. This paper explores the relationship between equivalence and validity as presently understood in the international business literature. Various methodologies for strengthening equivalence and validity are discussed. _____________________________________________________________________...

The authors describe how they employed the perspectives of two extant nursing theories, Roy and Orem, in understanding the complex needs of a school-age child who required tube feeding during school. In addition, they explain how sociopolitical knowing was skillfully used by the school nurse to effect positive change in both the health and the school experience of the schoolage child.

Reviews of daily time-series mortality studies from many cities throughout the world suggest that daily mortality counts are associated with short-term changes in particulate matter (PM) air pollution. One U.S. city, however, with conspicuously weak PM-mortality associations was Salt Lake City, Utah; however, relatively robust PM-mortality associations have been observed in a neighboring metrop...

Objetivo: Descrever os Diagnósticos de Enfermagem mais prevalentes em pacientes internados unidade clínica médica utilizando histórico enfermagem fundamentado na teoria Dorothea Orem. Métodos: Estudo descritivo com 13 pacientes, desenvolvido um hospital Minas Gerais composta por 25 leitos clínicos, sendo o perfil atendidos renal crônico, cardiopata e pneumopatas. Resultados: Elaborou-se 130 dia...

Background: Providing a self-care program appropriate for patient needs in a supportive educative nursing system format could reduce migraine-induced disability. This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of Orem's self-care program on headache related disability in migraine patients. Methods: In this randomized clinical trial, episodic migraine patients with or without aura who sig...

Dampak kecemasan yang berlebihan pada ibu hamil dalam menghadapi persalinan dapat menyebabkan macet atau lama dan janin akan tertahan di jalan lahir sehingga kekurangan oksigen bila tidak segera pertolongan bisa sampai terjadi kematian janin. Perawat sebagai tenaga profesional memiliki peran educator untuk memberikan bantuan dukungan dengan cara mengajarkan, mengarahkan mendukung pasien, keluar...