Nursing Theory Grid Camille Delos Santos NUR/403 December 20, 2011 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. Name: Camille Delos Santos Theorist Selected: Ida Jean Orlando Description of Theory: Ida Orlando’s “Deliberative Nursing Process Theory focuses on the interaction between the nurse and patient, perception validation, and the use of the nursing process to produce positive outcomes or patient improvement”(Faust, 2002, para. 1). It is a process that involves nurse-patient collaboration where in the nurse’s intervention “depends upon the patient’s active involvement in determining both the cause of the distress and also an action which may reduce the distress”(Potter & Bockenhauer, 2000, para.
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.
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. Name: kisha Theorist Selected: Dorothea Orem Description of Theory: According to Somchit, (1989), Orem’s theory, “Focuses on self-care needs of the patient and is a deliberate action of the nurse who views patients in terms of their self-care capacity. Orem has specified the relationship of her concepts into a set of theories that are interrelated in nursing: theory of self-care deficit, theory of self- care, and theory of nursing systems. With Orem’s theory the focus of nursing is the individual, more specifically the individual’s self-care requisites.
The central theme of her theory was that “nursing is a therapeutic, interpersonal, and goal-oriented process,” and that nursing interventions are directed towards developing the patient’s personality towards productive, personal, and community living (Taylor, Lilis, & Lemone, 2005, P80). This central concept of her theory was prepared around four components: the person, she
Why is there theory in nursing? Chinn and Jacobs (1983) defined nursing theory as “a set of concepts, definitions, and propositions that projects a systematic view of phenomena by designating specific interrelationships among concepts for purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and/or controlling phenomena.” (Chinn & Jacobs 1983). Meleis (1991), on the other hand, defines nursing theory as “…an articulated and communicated conceptualization of invented or discovered reality in or pertaining to nursing for the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, or prescribing nursing care” (Meleis 1991). From the definitions above, one can concluded that theory in nursing serves the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling to achieve desired outcomes for nursing (Chinn & Jacobs 1983). Those who involve in nursing are familiar with the phrase, “….devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.” Millions of nurses have spoken of this Nightingale Pledge on their graduation day.
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.
According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Position Statement on Defining Scholarship for the Discipline of Nursing (1999), the APN/DNP’s role of scholarship serves to benefit nursing research, teaching, education, and the practice of nursing itself. Boyer’s (1990, 1997) model identifies the processes of discovery, integration, application, and teaching that guide the continuum of scholarship for the APN. Participating in research processes and evaluating theories in practice contribute to discovery and the ways of knowing. Information is shared by writing scholarly publications, mentoring, and developing educational opportunities for nurses, such as competencies. New knowledge is applied into practice through evidence based decision making, quality improvement processes, instituting policy changes, and providing patient and community education opportunities.
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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.
Specifically, this paper will discuss the theorist’s background, interrelated theoretical concepts, in what ways Comfort Theory relates to the nursing paradigm, and in what ways Comfort Theory relates to the APRN operating in the out of hospital environment. Theorist Background Katharine Kolcaba’s nursing education took place in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1965, Dr. Kolcaba earned a Diploma in Nursing from Saint Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing. Wanting to further her nursing knowledge, Dr. Kolcaba enrolled and subsequently completed the RN – MSN program at Case Western Reserve University. In 1997, Dr. Kolcaba graduated with a PhD in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University.