These beliefs, values, and practices influence the health promotion and disease prevention in which they seek (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The assessment of these practices is an essential role nurse’s play in caring for each individual and family. By using the family focused approach the nurse can determine the support and care a family can provide to the patient. The nurse can then assess the family’s potential of obtaining optimal health. The purpose of this paper is for the nurse to complete a health assessment of a family by using Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns and the system’s approach.
The core concept of nursing is the diversity in healthcare settings dealt with the disparity between theorist of Florence Nothingale and Jean Watson. Florence Nothingale environment theory and metaparadigms will help establish the criteria which identify where and when nurse apply the core concept of nursing practice on a daily basis. Jean Watson theory is the philosophy and science of caring which is interrelated theories of Florence nightingale concepts. To understand these theory we have to understand the core concept of knowledge that will establish the path of explanations and give the meaning of a phenomena of nursing practice. These nursing practices must base on nursing theories we are using in the clinical setting of practice.
This framework defines nursing as a profession rather than a task-based job. It also provides structures that allow the nurse to function as a professional, as a colleague and supports the organization and effective use of resources. The UVA Nursing Care Delivery System: The care delivery system endorsed by the UVA PNSO is Relationship-Based Care. Relationship-Based Care is a framework that identifies the three fundamental relationships that define the patient experience: the nurses’ relationships to self, to colleagues, and to patients and families. Relationship-Based Care aligns with the organizational goals and values and provides a synergistic approach to excellent outcomes.
She defined self-care as, “the practice of activities that individuals personally initiate and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life, health, and well-being” (Nursing Theory, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to describe Dorothea Orem’s theory and to identify how this theory can be implemented by a nursing leader in a healthcare organization. Orem addressed a person as a human being, with three characteristics that separate them from any living creature, they include the abilities to contemplate on their situation, to indicate their feeling and express their needs, and superior intelligence to correspond and invent needed item that will advance themselves and society. Orem recognized that each human being has the prospective abilities to gain knowledge and continue to improve. She felt that each human being has a collection of roles which include self concepts, body image, personal and social relationships that places them in this high functioning category of living creatures.
Working in the Nursing Profession: Role play exercise 1.1 Using the assessable skills mentioned previously, your group is to role play as the EN conducting the interview, Jay, his grandmother and Jay's mother. You are to take into account: • Equity, access and essentiality (take into account cultural needs and culturally appropriate language) • Appropriate technology • Community participation • Self-determination and multi-sectoral collaboration, in agreement with Jay and his family The aim of the interview is to: a) Identify interventions for Jay b) Identify suitable health promotion strategies c) Identify target goals (S.M.A.R.T) and expectations d) Identify support system and services e) Identify role of family and enlist family support f) Plan for reviews and contingency plan Part 2: Presentation to address the following 2.1 What classification of disability does Jay have and what is the cause of his disability? • Moderate acquired disability, as a cause of chronic ear infections. There is some permanent hearing loss which has affected language and literacy development. 2.2 What is an assessment of Jay's needs and health issues likely to show?
Watson’s Theories of Human Caring NUR /403Theories and Models of Nursing Practice Priscilla Ricardo Introduction. Watson defined therapeutic nurse-patient relationship as, “ Nurse’s are expected to portray and act professionally, legally and ethically in order to established an effective nurse-client relationship. The significance of an effective nurse patient’s relationship is critical to maintenance, promotion and recovery of patients in every aspect of life. It is central to meeting the patients care needs and therefore communication between the nurse and patients is the foundation on which this relationship is built. The techniques to establish a warm and mutual nurse-client relationship are vital to understand and needless to say important in practice in order to come up with healthy and quality outcome for the patient as well as the nurse.
Family Nursing Diagnoses Paper NUR / 405 December 2, 2014 Family Nursing Diagnoses In conducting my family assessment, I approached the dynamic in a holistic manner, with compassion and professionalism. It is through this framework that Jean Watson’s theory of Clinical Caritas ironically tied to my sense of service. The transpersonal concept is an intersubjective human-to-human relationship in which the nurse affects and is affected by the person of the other. Both are fully present in the moment and feel a union with the other; they share a phenomenal field that becomes part of the life story of both (Watson, 2008). In interviewing the family, I became self-aware of my role within their home environment.
Control of pain, of other symptoms, and of psychological, social and spiritual problems is paramount. The goal of palliative care is the achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and their families” ( in Macdonald 2005:70). The purpose of this essay is to summarize the choosen article; relate the topic to my future role and professional practice as a nurse; and also state the study skills used in the selection, reading and writing of this essay. This article was written by Kathy Kinlaw. She is an associate director and programme director in Health Sciences Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, United States (US).
Goals: 1. To increase this aggregate and caregiver’s awareness about symptoms of Alzheimer’s and dementia. To involve the community health nurse in order to coordinate and accomplish community health advocacy project. 2. Caregivers will be able to recognize symptoms and be educated on available support available in the community for family members with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Instead, Roper pointed out they should be viewed "As a cognitive way to the assessment and care of the patient, not on paper as a checklist, but in the nurse's approach to and system of her care." So, nurses intensify their understanding of the model and its application. In additional of that, nursing is a profession that relying on correspondence, rooted in the organic dependency of the individual human being in relationship with other human being such as human interactions. As the unique function of nursing, it includes autonomous and collaborative care of clients of all ages, families, ethics and communities, sick or well and in