Post Nasal Drip (or PND). Mucus draining down the back of the throat over the back of the tongue where the bad breath bacteria live. They feed off the proteins in mucus and create strong odors. If you still have your tonsils, you may be harboring a higher number of the bacteria in the crevices of your tonsils.
Our Professional Practice Model, adapted from Hoffart and Woods (1996)1, contains the values, structures, and processes that support registered nurse control of the delivery of nursing care and the environment in which care is delivered. The center of the model is the patient and family.
Thus, a nursing theory provides direction to what nursing care is effective and ideal. It is described by Meleis (1991) as an articulated and communicated conceptualization of invented or discovered reality in or pertaining to nursing for the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, or prescribing nursing care.