Discuss a Specific Theory Used in Your Practice Setting. How Does Using This Theory Affect Care? (If There Is Not a Specific Theory, What Theory Do You Think Would Fit?)

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Discuss a specific theory used in your practice setting. How does using this theory affect care? (if there is not a specific theory, what theory do you think would fit?)

I chose Travelbee theory because it is what deep in my core and how I strive to practice as a nurse. "Travelbee believed nursing is accomplished through human-to-human relationships that begin with the original encounter and then progress through stages of emerging identities, developing feelings of empathy, and later feelings of sympathy.

•The nurse and patient attain a rapport in the final stage. For meeting the goals of nursing it is a prerequisite to achieving a genuine human-to-human relationships.

•This relationship can only be established by an interaction process.

•It has five phases.

◦The inaugural meeting or original encounter

◦Visibility of personal identities/ emerging identities.

◦Empathy

◦Sympathy

◦Establishing mutual understanding and contact/ rapport

•Travelbee's ideas have greatly influenced the hospice movement in the west."(("Human-To-Human Relationship Model", 2013).

Developing that human relationship with your patient is key to helping them achieve a great quality of life. At my hospital look other hospitals the concept is take care of the patient first or the patient comes first. My hospital really expects that of all staff. They give us the equipment, time and recourses to do so. Our CEO, COO,and CNO have a motto and it is: as staff we do not ever say we don't have it, or we don't do it. Find a way to say yes: no matter how big are how small the patients need! An example of this happened just the other day when I worked an extra shift in the pre-admitting area. I was helping the nurse with a patient who had a double mastectomy earlier this

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