Hildegard Peplau, Joyce Travelbee, and Ida Jean Orlando focused their nursing practice to establish therapeutic relations with patients to promote health and healing. Peplau considers nurse-patient relationship as being central to care. Nursing cannot occur if there is no relationship, or connection, between the patient and the nurse (Parker & Smith, 2010). Human to Human Relationship Model Theory of Travelbee is about the interrelation of the nurse and the patient. The nurse provides care and meets the basic needs while the patient will cooperate for its faster recovery.
In the relationship the nurse needs to have the ability to connect with another human being, ability to assess the patient’s current status and address the needs they have, and being sensitive to the patient’s needs. The next part of her theory is the carative factors. These factors were to be like a map to guide you in your nursing practice rather than a checklist that needs to be complete in order to fully practice Watson’s theory. 1. Forming a system of values in which you will show through kindness and caring to the patient.
These core concepts lead nurses to actions that guide their practice. Nurses incorporate these concepts as they review, formulate, and deliver nursing care (Brilowski & Wendler, 2005). Nursing is a common core concept of nursing theories. Comparing and analyzing the definition of the concept of nursing among theories helps to distinguish the differences between them. It is also important to know where and how theories can best apply to current nursing practice.
Caulfield, (2005), states that, accountability is a concept often associated with nursing. It is the fulfilment of a formal obligation to disclose to others the purposes, principles, procedures, relationships, results and expenditures for which one has authority (Batey & Lewis, 1982). Framework of accountability is based on three aspects; professional, ethical, and legal issues, and will link them to record keeping reflected in Eddie’s scenario. Diary sheets will be included in the appendices. Jasper,(2003), states that, to be accountable is being able to justify our actions to others and take responsibility for them.
The similarities and how the theories can be applied to nursing practice. Dorthea Orem’s theory of self-care and Jean Watson’s theory of human care. Jean Watson’s theory of human care is care that can be displayed and practiced interpersonally and caring consists of factors that result in the satisfaction of certain human needs (Current nurses, 2013). Watson’ theory is focused on the care of the mental and spiritual growth for both participants while seeking to restore the harmony within the personhood of the other (George, 2011). Dorthea Orem’s self-care model is focusing on care steered toward patient’s taking care of him or herself.
Precepting involves a commitment on both the preceptor and the new nurse. The precepting period ends at the completion of orientation period, although the preceptor is usually the support nurse who the new nurse turns to with questions after orientation period ("Precepting," 2010). A2. Guidelines Using a competency-based approach is important in assessing a new nurse’s readiness to work solo on the nursing unit. Even though the new nurse has the potential ability to function, it is NNT2 TASK 5 3 important for the preceptor to evaluate the competency of their skills.
Once the need is identified, the nurse has to select required nursing systems to provide care: wholly compensatory, partly compensatory or supportive and educative system. Care is provided according to the degree of deficit the patient is presenting with and once the care is provided, the nursing activities and the use of the nursing systems will be evaluated to get an idea about whether the mutually planned goals are met. By using the nursing process, I will be able to design a plan of care for patients. Orem’s theory works for me because it has utility for professional nursing in the design of curriculums for preservice, graduate, nursing education administration, and nursing research. It gives me directions to nursing–specific outcomes related to knowing and meeting the therapeutic self-care demands, regulating
Nursing theories are concepts that define and guide nursing practice and nursing research. Guided by theories, nurses purposefully implement the nursing process systematically to deliver effective holistic nursing care efficiently. Nursing theories clarify and separate expert nursing profession from other profession that delivers care. It maintains the boundaries of the nursing profession. Nursing is a caring profession and caring endorses the profession and is central to nursing.
The Literature review of self-care to find the key attributes of self-care. The paper will identify the importance of self-care in promotion of optimal health. The nurse’s role in facilitation and promoting self care in patient care. The key attributes
Nurse Leader Interview Nurse leadership has the distinct responsibility to manage “challenging workplace and workforce issues” (Cummings, et al., 2009, p. 1). In the past, nurse administrators believed that leadership was simply the process of ensuring the completion of specific tasks while providing care to patients. As the nursing profession grew, nurse leaders are now held responsible and accountable for financial, administrative, and patient care management. Future nurse leaders must become educated on various leadership styles that can be used independently or in collaboration depending upon each situation’s needs and the people involved. The objective of this paper is to present the views of a nurse administrator regarding leadership and the application of various leadership styles.