Therefore, the nurse must realize that guiding patients towards health is a continuous process (Chitty & Black, 2011). • Environment or the setting, which shapes the patient, is made of many internal and external factors. These factors include and are not limited to socioeconomic status and psychological state (Chitty & Black, 2011). The nurse must keep in mind the environmental factors
It is also important to know where and how theories can best apply to current nursing practice. Compare and Analyze a Common Core Concept A common core concept among Virginia Henderson’s need theory and Dorothea Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory is nursing. Both theorists use the nursing concept in their theory to define the role of nursing. Henderson defines nursing as the unique function of a nurse to help a person sick or well in the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery that the person would perform unaided if he or she had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge. Nursing can also consist of assisting an individual to a peaceful death.
Nursing Theorist Grid Use grid below to complete the Week 4-Nursing Theorists assignment. Please see the “Nursing Theorists’ Grading Criteria” document, located on the Materials page of the student Web site. Theorist Selected: Florence Nightingale Description of Theory: Nightingales theory encourages that maintaining the environment can directly and indirectly restore a patient’s health. Nightingale’s theory is explained as the environment, patient and the nurse interact with one another. She believed that the environment can in-directly and directly effect a patients health and it has great benefit on the healing process when controlled and managed to patient recovery Her theory encouraged collaboration and cooperation as the focus of the nurse-patient relationship.
| Utility to the nursing profession | 2.5 points Question 4 Evidence-based nursing primarily uses which of the following to answer clinical questions? | 1. | Consulting and authority | | 2. | Using intuition | | 3. | Obtaining the newest research | | 4.
Doane and Varcoe state that relational nursing practice is seen “through a relational lens, always assuming and looking for how people, situations, contexts, environments, and processes are integrally connecting and shaping each other” (2008, p.51). This definition of relational practice can be applied to Health Promotion as it encompasses a holistic approach to health. The concepts of relational theory are dynamic to nursing practice as they are needed to establish a collaborative relationship between all involved resulting in better health care and health promotion. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion states that “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health” (World Health Organization [WHO], 1986, p. 1). The Ottawa charter describes Health promotion in a broad focus on health including education, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the importance of client’s participation to influence on his or her own care and outcome.
The validation of the requirement of nursing is that the person cannot maintain health and be free from injury and disease, and have the quality of self-care (Green, 2011). Patricia Benner defined nursing as a caring practice whose science is guided by ethics of care and responsibility. Nursing is concerned with health promotion and treatment of illness and disease. Benner identified nurses as practitioners central to the promotion of health and well-being of patients. Nurses understand the
In Peplau’s theory, the elements of the nursing metaparadigm (i.e. person, health, environment and nursing) are defined and broadened as follows (Current Nursing, 2012): * Client/Patient – Person, group, community deserving of humane care with dignity, privacy, ethics * Environment – Physiological, psychological & social fluidity that may be illness-maintaining or health promoting * Health – Forward movement of personality and other ongoing human processes in the direction of creative, constructive, personal, and community living. * Interpersonal – Phenomena occurring between people * Nurse – The medium of the art of nursing; a maturing force. * Nursing - A significant therapeutic interpersonal process. It functions cooperatively with other human processes
The central focus of the profession of nursing is developed around the idea of providing different dimensions of care to individuals in need by use of science and an atmosphere conducive to promoting and maintaining health. As such, nurses must always take a holistic approach towards the care of their clients and in order to maintain the same approach among all clients; the metaparadigm of nursing was developed. The metaparadigm of nursing was first developed by Florence Nightingale and has since been adopted by all nursing professionals. This is a general concept that has developed over time to define the discipline of nursing. The structure for the knowledge of nursing was developed from the four concepts of this metaparadigm.
The foundation of any successful nursing career is built with continuing education, a strong knowledge base of the history of nursing practice and theories, strong ethical principal and learning effective application of the nursing process. This paper explores different areas that have personally influenced me as a nurse. These influences include Board of Nursing (BRN), Professional Nursing Organizations (PNO), ethical principles, nursing theory, and historical influences. A. Functional Differences The differences between a regulatory agency such as the Board of Nursing and a Professional Nursing Organization is that the BRN regulates, writes laws, approves licensure and governs nurses. The BRN serves to protect patient.
Nursing as a profession has a social mandate to contribute to the good of society through knowledge based practice (McCurry, Revell & Roy 2009). Also nursing has a disciplinary goal to contribute to the health of individuals and the overall health of society. My definition of nursing is the process of protection, improving and enhancing one's health in the state of illness or wellness. Nurses must have the ability to prevent illness by health promotion, be able to ease pain through the treatment of human response to their environment and care for individuals, families and or communities. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines philosophy as “a set of basic principles or concepts underlying a particular sphere of knowledge” (2015).