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Considering all your discussion topics, develop a self-reflection that summarizes the Nursing Theories that you considered more applicable in your practice.

Analyze the potential effectiveness resulting from professional or nurse-provided social support versus enhancement of social support provided by personal relationship and social networks for parents of children with chronic mental illness.

The use of spirituality in nursing practice is not new. However, it is more studied and utilized in a more structured format in nursing. Identify and discuss tools used to evaluate spirituality.

Using the theory of unpleasant symptoms as a guide, what would you look for in an assessment tool for patient symptoms?

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Self-reflection is a useful tool that can benefit student nurses and patients. It enables the student nurses to develop self-knowledge and awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and assists them in becoming authentic when providing nursing care to patients. A reflective student nurse is empowered not to dwell on negative experiences and negative thoughts, but to look beyond hurdles and seek positivity and be of value to their patient. Nursing theories are organized bodies of knowledge to define what nursing is, what nurses do, and why they do it. Nursing theories provide a way to define nursing as a unique discipline that is separate from other disciplines (e.g., medicine). It is a framework of concepts and purposes intended to guide nursing practice at a more concrete and specific level. Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory focuses on each “individual’s ability to perform self-care, defined as ‘the practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life, health, and well-being.’” The Self-Care or Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing is composed of three interrelated theories: (1) the theory of self-care, (2) the self-care deficit theory, and (3) the theory of nursing systems, which is further classified into wholly compensatory, partially compensatory and supportive-educative

Until, finally, various different empirically determined “corrective factors” were unified into the simple equations of General Relativity.

 

 

And the people in that alternate Earth could say, “Even though the final equation was simple, there was no way you could possibly know to arrive at that answer from just the perihelion precession of Mercury.  It takes many, many additional experiments.  You must have measured time running slower in a stronger gravitational field; you must have measured light bending around stars.  Only then could you imagine our unified theory of gravitation.  No, not even a perfect intelligence could know it in advance for there would be many ad-hoc theories consistent with the perihelion precession alone.”

In our world, Einstein didn’t even use the perihelion precession of Mercury, except for verification of his answer.  Einstein sat down in his armchair and thought about how he would have designed the universe, and how he thought a universe should look—for example, that you shouldn’t ought to be able to distinguish yourself accelerating in one direction, from the rest of the universe accelerating in the other direction.

 

 

And Einstein executed the whole long (multi-year) chain of armchair reasoning, without making any mistakes that would have required further experimental evidence to pull him back on track.

Rather than observe the planets, and infer what laws might cover their gravitation, Einstein was observing the other laws of physics, and inferring what new law might follow the same pattern.  Einstein wasn’t finding an equation that covered the motion of gravitational bodies.  Einstein was finding a character-of-physical-law that covered previously observed equations, and that he could crank to predict the next equation that would be observed.

It is true that nobody knows where the laws of physics come from, but Einstein’s success with General Relativity shows that their common character is strong enough to predict the correct form of one law from having observed other laws, without necessarily needing to observe the precise effects of the law.

 

 

So, from a perspective of scientific method, what Einstein did is still induction from evide

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