(Holland et al, 2008) This is a nursing diagnosis as opposed to a medical one. This needs to be achieved so that appropriate care can be planned. Problems maybe actual or potential. (Holland et al, 2008) Through planning there is a need to state goals or find desired outcomes for each problem/need. Goals need to be measurable, attainable, client centred, realistic, outcome written and short.
1. Discuss the role of the nurse when collecting a comprehensive nursing health assessment. A nurse’s role is a complex and unique function and a fundamental part of a Multidisciplinary team. Nurses provide assessment and nursing care of a patient. Assessment is a systematic process using a rational method of planning to identify a patient’s health and any actual or potential problems that need to be met and to provide interventions to meet those needs.
A reflection on the facilitators and barriers to the provision of optimal supportive and palliative care in the clinical setting. This essay shall critically engage with the issue surrounding supportive and palliative care. We shall begin with evaluating the philosophies, history and definitions within the supportive and palliative care, including concepts such as; quality of life, health and wellbeing, communication and the conflicts between the medical and nursing models. Following this introduction to the key areas, we shall then evaluate some facilitators and barriers as they are perceived in practice. This evaluation will engage with reflections on practise in my own experience, and vignettes are offered as a means to facilitate the discussion about the complex nature of supportive and palliative (S&PC) care and the disparities found between theory and practice.
Each nurse needs to use all three parts of the critical thinking toward being a professional nurse. Critical Thinking in Nursing Importance “To become a professional nurse requires that you learn to think like a nurse”. (Critical Thinking and Nursing, 2013 paragraph 3) Critical thinking in the nursing profession must be mandatory. Critical thinking helps nurses how to view a client and determine the type of problems and how to deal with the issue at hand. Critical thinking contains a form of discipline, intellectual process of applying skills, and guidance.
The definition of nursing as put forward by the American Nurses Association is: Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations. (Published in The Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice 2004 edition page 7) To determine how it addresses the metaparadigm of theories of nursing, I needed to find out what a metaparadigm is. By definition, a metaparadigm is a model that explains the linkages of science, philosophy and theory accepted and applied by the discipline. According to our textbook, “ A Nursing Theory is composed of a set of concepts and propositions that claims to account for the central phenomena of interest to the discipline of nursing. “These are: peson, environment, health/illness, and nursing put forward by the American Nurses Association.
As nurses, we should seek available resources to help patients to formulate decisions to utilize their rights and achieve their expectations if they confront a dilemma or they have inadequate health knowledge. “Nurses are in a unique
Crisis is any event that is, or is expected to lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community, or whole society. Crisis communication means: communicating in a time of crisis, it can be a task to tackle or exchanging important information. This health care crisis communication plan will outline the roles, responsibilities, and protocols that will guide a health care organization in promptly sharing information with all the health care team members during an emergency crisis. It will explain how communication dynamics may differ in times of crisis, mass trauma, or disaster. It will also explain three way to reduce stress during a crisis and how to resolve potential communication challenges.
A. Advance Quality Patient Care Patient quality of care can be advanced throughout the hospital by active participation of staff with the use of nursing-sensitive indicators. It can be accomplished by educating staff of what nursing sensitive indicators are, how they help improve the quality of care, and how they impact nursing care. For example, pressure ulcer incidence is one of the indicators, and it involves the amount of ulcers that develop during patient hospital stay (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.). The staff should know that it is an indicator and needs to be reported to the appropriate personnel so that it can be tracked.
Running head: INTEGRATION OF NURSING THEORY INTO PRACTICE 1 Integration of Nursing Theory Into Practice Denyse Collins University of South Alabama Running head: CROSS POST: THEORY BASED PRACTICE DISCUSSION Integration of Nursing Theory Into Practice 2 Nursing is a profession that constitutes both art and science. Carper described empirical, ethical, personal, and esthetic designs of nursing knowing to complete the framework of nursing knowledge (Chinn & Kramer, 2011). The advance practice nurse (APN) aspires to provide optimal care to patients by utilizing evidenced-based practice and a creative means of putting evidence-based practice into action. This essay will explore the pertinence of nursing theory to nursing practice, the role of the APN in decreasing the separation between theory and practice, and apply Jean Watson’s Caring Theory to the phenomenon of concern, patient care. APNs can facilitate the ability to practice both the art and science of nursing and reduce the chasm between theory and practice by using nursing theory as a foundation.
NIL | Evaluating Practice through Theories and Models | Assignment 1: Essay | | Contents 1) Introduction…………………………………………………………………….3 2) Discussion a) Nightingale’s model……………………………………………………….4 b) Orem’s model………………………………………………………………6 c) Team Nursing model……………………………………………………....7 3) Evaluation (Pros and Cons)…………………………………………………..8 4) Case Study……………………………………………………………………...9 5) Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..11 6) References……………………………………………………………………..12 7) Introduction Nursing needs a systemic approach, a guide to optimise the efficiency and efficacy in delivering nursing care to clients. This guide, or theory, is engendered through the use of concepts of theoretical and empirical perception and schemes to justify the connections between the concepts used. Theories are developed for the intention to provide the necessary guidance for the nurse to guide one’s nursing practice. As defined by Meleis (2007), “nursing theory is a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing reality communicated for the purpose of describing phenomena, explaining relationships between phenomena, predicting consequences, or prescribing nursing care”. For instance, Florence Nightingale brought to mind a favourable co-relation between nature and wellbeing.