Nursing Theory Response to Q3

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Week 8 Q/A 3
Lynn Davidson
Liberty University
Nursing Theory and Advanced Practice
NUR 502
Dr. Lane-Tillerson

Question 3:1
Compare and contrast McEwen & Willis chapter 21 commentary about future issues in nursing theory with chapter 15 in Shelly & Miller.
Where is the future of nursing and nursing theory headed? Part of this answer we are seeing in real life today during the rollout of President Obama’s health care reform. As the world is looking at us and wondering how a government can shut down; we as nurses must ask ourselves what we can do better for our patients in these trying and changing times. It would be easy for nurses to just throw up our hands and say “oh well” but we must see it more as a challenge to be creative and think out of the box for the future of our patients. To meet these challenges, the discipline of nursing should give increasing attention to certain theories, concepts, and models such as primary health care (as opposed to “illness care”), health promotion, health protection, motivation, patient safety, and quality of life (McEwen and Wills, 2011, p. 461). As we plunge forward into the abyss, one must remember Christian nursing will forever be a ministry of compassionate health care to anyone in need, for example, offering that glass water or juice or holding a hand (Shelly & Miller, 2006, p.282). In McEwen & Ellis (2011), they discuss how nursing should incorporate a variety of theories and other avenues into a comprehensive approach to caring for our patients. In order to accomplish this, the profession must seek to develop more middle range theories, situation-based theories, and improve our evidence based practice procedures. In today’s times, all this must be done with the thought of cost containment, how accessible care is and the quality of nursing care. Nurses will be expected to perform
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