Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to modifier: dangling modifier, misplaced modifier. Modifiers are, quite simply, any word or group of words that modifies (describes or elaborates upon) another element in a sentence. Modifiers can either be adjectives, which modify nouns (or sometimes pronouns), or adverbs, which modify pretty much everything else (usually verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs). Whether a modifier is an adjective or adverb depends on what it modifies and how it functions in a sentence.
Steven Edwards' Philosophy of Nursing is a book that must be read by any nursing school faculty member who teaches nursing theory as well as anyone interested in developing a more indepth understanding of the nature of nursing. This book is unique in that it examines nursing theory from a philosophical perspective.
She joined teaching profession and became a distinguished Professor in Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She is the founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and became the President of the National League for Nursing. Her research has been in the area of human caring and loss. Thus she founded the âCaring Theoryâ in nursing which was published in 1979, and revised in 1985 and 1988.