Nursing is a continuously evolving science. In order to keep up with today’s society, nurses must continue to stay up to date and advance in their skills, knowledge, and patient care routines to obtain successful outcomes. According to Carper, nurses should pursue the development of a holistic, personal, and individualistic treatment regimen. Carper believed that for these changes to be successful, the four patterns of knowing should be implemented into nursing care plans. The four patterns or ways that Carper was referring to consisted of empirics, ethics, esthetics, and personal.…
Different specialties in nursing have different cultures. Every specialty has different ideas and solution to solve problems. “Nursing as a…
Roger's hypothesis of the Unitary Individual is the way I feel nursing ought to be rehearsed. Medical caretakers should see the individual overall and not as a machine. Parse depicted the concurrence worldview, people are unitary, unchangeable, and in the persistent shared process with nature (Rogers, 1970, 1992). As opposed to Parse, Newman distinguished three ideal models. One of them is the Unitary-transformative worldview is like Parse's concurrence hypothesis.…
Fawcett labeled them central concepts to nursing and distinguished them as nursing’s meta-paradigm…
When analyzing concepts, determining the essential characteristics that make up a concept is a fundamental step. By establishing defining characteristics associated with a concept, one may have a greater understanding of it. If one fails to identify the proper attributes of a concept, than the results of the analysis may limit the ability to expand nursing theories (Walker, & Avant, 2011, p. 162). Distinguishing between types of cases will allow one to categorize concepts and understand how they are in relation to one another, resulting in clearer theory outcomes. The model case is the “pure concept of the case” and possesses all the defining attributes that are found within the concept (Walker, & Avant, 2011, p. 163).…
Nursing is defined as “the profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm,” according to the New Oxford Dictionary. Yet there is no way that definition fully encompasses all that is needed in a nurse today. A nurse is someone that is there for another person, usually in one of that person’s lowest times. A nurse is a confidant, a teacher, an advocate, and so much more.…
Theories give a methodical interpretation of the phenomenon in question. In a fast-changing healthcare system, the nursing practice needs a solid foundation to help deal with uncertainty among healthcare workers. Nursing theories create a foundation on which to base nursing practice. This is because theory facilitates reasoning, decision making and critical thinking which strengthens the nursing profession (Black, 2014). According to Masters (2015), theories can also be explanatory, descriptive, predictive regulatory in nature.…
According to Alimohammadi, Taleghani, Mohammadi, and Akbarian, (2014) these philosophies were created to bring together and organize the concepts of nursing (p.121). Theorists have established multiple ways interpret those concepts. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses established a Synergy Model for Patient…
There are many different categories of paradigms in the nursing profession. However, there is one paradigm that I identify with the most and it belongs to Newman’s paradigm categories: the unitary- transformative paradigm. In this paper, I will be describing the nursing paradigm of unitary- transformative. Additionally, in my own words I will describe the metaparadigm concepts of person, environment, health/healing and nursing. Furthermore, to better understand the unitary- transformative paradigm, I will be providing an example from my most recent clinical rotation at a local hospital.…
Philosophy of Nursing Definition of Nursing If I were to be born again, I would not hesitate to become a nurse. Nursing is defined as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities by preventing illness and alleviate suffering” (Ana, 2010, p. 66). This concept contains everything I admire about my profession. When people ask me what it is for me to be a nurse, an avalanche of ideas going through my mind.…
Nursing theories developed through different stages and nursing is currently in the integrated knowledge stage, where research based evidences are applied in practice. Nursing theories are numerous and can be classified into various types based…
Developing a nursing philosophy is important to a nurse as it serves as a guide and is the foundation for personal nursing practice. Following a personal nursing philosophy can enhance your nursing career, make you a better nurse and improve patient outcomes. However, it is difficult to choose one nursing theorist, as there are viewpoints from several theorists that align with my personal theories. Choosing one theory is not only difficult, it is possible to change a theory during your nursing career or draw from various theories while working with patients and their families depending on the situation.…
The practice of nursing is based on theories that are validated through research in nursing. Nursing theories can be classified into three different categories based on range in complexity and scope…
After reviewing many nursing theorist before writing this paper, I have concluded that my practice of nursing encompasses all fourteen points of her theory. The patient must be seen as a whole and not as a sum of the parts. If one is to view the patient as parts, part of the clinical picture may be missed. I view my care as assisting the patient in activities that they would normally do for themselves if they were able. I foster my patients to gain their independence as quickly and safely as possible.…
My perception of nursing is more than a profession. It is a lifestyle; one which is both a calling and a mission. It goes beyond conducting procedures, starting IVs, and administering medications. The role of the nurse involves becoming your patient’s advocate. It means serving as a reliable and principled liaison to their recovery, both physically and spiritually.…