Achievement Of Developmental Tasks Research Articles

Nursing care of the patient with non-Hodgkin??s lymphoma

A patient's significant life events, such as the diagnosis of cancer, coupled with critical developmental milestones provide particular challenges to nurses caring for young adults. A case study format is used to identify nursing care priorities throughout the diagnosis and treatment of a young adult male with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Diagnosis and treatment protocols are discussed to provide a background for nursing assessment and interventions. Nursing implications related to the treatment protocol are incorporated as are implications based on the physical and psychological impact of the disease and necessary life-style changes. Stressors created by the disease and treatments are identified, and the support of patient coping strategies and continued achievement of developmental tasks are addressed.

Re-entry women in baccalaureate nursing programs: the achievement of selected developmental tasks.

This study sought to determine if there is a difference in the level of development, as assessed by the Student Developmental Task Inventory (SDTI-2), between the traditional age woman and the re-entry woman who has entered a baccalaureate nursing program. It builds upon the theoretical formulations of accepted principles of human growth and development and recent life cycle research, which suggests that further achievement of developmental tasks is possible throughout adulthood. The subjects consist of 156 traditional age and 50 re-entry women nursing students. Data were analyzed with the use of the subprograms "Frequencies" and "T-Test" of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Examination of the null hypotheses related to the achievement of developmental tasks and subtasks revealed that the traditional age woman and the re-entry woman did not differ on the majority of the developmental tasks and subtasks. Implications for nurse educators are discussed.

Children of Violent Marriages: The Forgotten Victims

The intensity and relationship characteristics of violent marriages overshadow the developmental and emotional needs of the children of these marriages. The dynamics, the communication patterns, and the responses to role expectations are reviewed in terms of how they impair the children's achievement of developmental tasks.

A method for measuring developmental tasks: scales for selecting tasks at the beginning of adolescence.

The study undertook to relate various authors' conceptual definitions of developmental tasks; to build operational definitions of selected developmental tasks and subtasks, year by year, from Ii through 14 years of age; and to develop a means of measuring status and/or progress in achievement of developmental tasks. In this undertaking four assumptions were basic: I. Spontaneous statements of problems children face in their everyday affairs offer data in current task involvement.