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Thesis
Women and Midlife Transitions: A Call to Action for Nursing and Primary Care
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
04/2008
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3610
Abstract
Women born in the post WWII years are entering midlife in large numbers. These women in the 40 to 65 age group will have a significant impact on primary care settings with their transitional and developmental issues. The sociocultural, historical, relational, and environmental contexts of these women's lives will be important for nurses and care providers to understand in order to support well-being. The framework for this work was feminist developmental theory, and Parse's nursing theory of human becoming. Gaps were found in the existing literature regarding the psychological care of midlife women in the primary care setting. Integrating the psychological with the physical aspects of care within the unique context of each woman's life is vital to fostering well-being and facilitating empowerment for growth and change. Recommendations are made for a Midlife Women in Transition: A Clinician's Toolkit for use in assessment, intervention, and evaluation of a strength-based and empowering approach in primary care.
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- Title
- Women and Midlife Transitions: A Call to Action for Nursing and Primary Care
- Creators
- Pamela J. McGill
- Contributors
- Sheela Choppala-Nestor (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590737001842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis