What is Nursing
The metaparadigm of nursing makes nursing a unique field of practice when compared to any other profession. By understanding what each of the four concepts of the metaparadigm mean and how they relate to nursing, it can help promote better quality of care. In return, by providing quality care, a patient can have an increase quality of life. The four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm described by Kearney-Nunnery (2016) are nursing, human beings, environment, and health. Nursing is defined by Kearney-Nunnery (2016) “by its activities, goals, and services” (p.3).
God has created everyone equally and in his own image. Nurses possess their own unique gifts and talents and to be able to practice them brings glory to God. …show more content…
A holistic nurse realizes that each patient and situation requires different forms of care. Physical health is measured by how medically healthy a person is or the curing of a disease. Physical health usually has a physician involved and he or she plans out a medical course of treatment to promote physical healing. As nurses we focus on the patient as a whole, mind, body, and spirit. When providing holistic care, nurses are not just providing aggressive forms of treatment to cure or slow down a disease process. Instead, a nurse may be providing physical comfort as a person is actively dying or emotional comfort as a patient deals with a stressful life situation. When nurses care for someone who suffers from a chronic illness, it is possible to have optimal health because he or she is able to maintain a balance and find peace in non-physical ways using their mind and spirit. One can have a healthy medical status, but still are considered unhealthy because their mind and spirit is not within balance. As nurses we treat the whole patient, balancing and maintain their physical and nonphysical health to promote a better quality of …show more content…
The nurse collaborates with the physician about their patients, reporting new findings and voicing concerns to see what the best course of treatment would be. Nurses display their leadership skills by implanting new policies and procedures derived from evidence based practice. Since health care is constantly changing, a leader will embrace those changes and incorporate them into his or her workflow. It is also import to pay attention to what practices are working and what are not; speak up when certain practices become unsafe or have unbeneficial outcomes. When a nurse is at the bedside, he or she is continuously monitoring the patient to ensure the patient is safe and treatment is
The metaparadigm of nursing makes nursing a unique field of practice when compared to any other profession. By understanding what each of the four concepts of the metaparadigm mean and how they relate to nursing, it can help promote better quality of care. In return, by providing quality care, a patient can have an increase quality of life. The four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm described by Kearney-Nunnery (2016) are nursing, human beings, environment, and health. Nursing is defined by Kearney-Nunnery (2016) “by its activities, goals, and services” (p.3).
God has created everyone equally and in his own image. Nurses possess their own unique gifts and talents and to be able to practice them brings glory to God. …show more content…
A holistic nurse realizes that each patient and situation requires different forms of care. Physical health is measured by how medically healthy a person is or the curing of a disease. Physical health usually has a physician involved and he or she plans out a medical course of treatment to promote physical healing. As nurses we focus on the patient as a whole, mind, body, and spirit. When providing holistic care, nurses are not just providing aggressive forms of treatment to cure or slow down a disease process. Instead, a nurse may be providing physical comfort as a person is actively dying or emotional comfort as a patient deals with a stressful life situation. When nurses care for someone who suffers from a chronic illness, it is possible to have optimal health because he or she is able to maintain a balance and find peace in non-physical ways using their mind and spirit. One can have a healthy medical status, but still are considered unhealthy because their mind and spirit is not within balance. As nurses we treat the whole patient, balancing and maintain their physical and nonphysical health to promote a better quality of …show more content…
The nurse collaborates with the physician about their patients, reporting new findings and voicing concerns to see what the best course of treatment would be. Nurses display their leadership skills by implanting new policies and procedures derived from evidence based practice. Since health care is constantly changing, a leader will embrace those changes and incorporate them into his or her workflow. It is also import to pay attention to what practices are working and what are not; speak up when certain practices become unsafe or have unbeneficial outcomes. When a nurse is at the bedside, he or she is continuously monitoring the patient to ensure the patient is safe and treatment is