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Oluyemisi A. Okudele
Faye Glenn Abdellah’s
Patient-Centered
Approaches to
Nursing
Faye Glenn Abdellah, pioneer
nursing researcher, helped transform
nursing theory, nursing care and
nursing education .
This will be a chance for the nurses to focus on the care of the
patient, not their crime, because when a patient is been
admitted, it has been the perspective of the nurses to judge
them, based on the crime committed.
Current Nursing: A portals for Nursing Professionals; Nursing Theories: A companion to nursing theories and
models(2009). Retrieved September 21st 2009, from http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Abdellah.htm
NCBI: A service of the U.S National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health; (1999). Diabetes care from
diagnosis, effects of training in patient-centered care on beliefs, attitudes and behavior of primary care professionals.
Retrieved September 21st 2009, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10640121?ordinalpos=9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEn
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McEwen, M. & Wills, E.M. (2006). Theoretical Basis for Nursing: Patient-Centered Approaches to Nursing (2nd Ed).
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams &Wilkins.