The Tidal Model of Mental Health Recovery does not believe in one size fits most. The tidal model is base on the concept of nursing as "caring with" person experiencing distress. It is a theory that emphasizes the importance of understanding a person’s need through collaborative working, developing a therapeutic relationship through a discrete method of active empowerment, establishing nursing as an educative element at the heart of interdisciplinary intervention and seeks to resolve problems and promote mental health through narrative approach(storytelling).
This theory believes that to help a person during a mental recovery, bridging(engagement), commitment, and dedication are very …show more content…
The self-domain is a private place where the person experiences thoughts, feeling, belief, values, and ideas that are only known to the person and tends to keep them secret from the world and others. To unravel the self-domain of a person, the individual must trust the world -domain. Therapeutic relationship and building trust with a person in a mental recovery are essential to facilitate the disclosure of private self to the world domain (sharing information with health professionals). Not until a person share his/ her experience/ private self, the health professionals are in mystery as a person is described as a house with many rooms in which is hard to decide the room the person is from time to time. The others domain (rendering of support and finding resources) cannot be achieved not until the self-domain, and the world domain aligns with one another.
In summary, the tidal theory of mental recovery is a theory that emphasizes the development of a therapeutic relationship, building trust, bridging(engagement), dedication, and commitment. Health professionals, friends, fellow travelers are encouraged to follow the ten-tidal commitments as it opens the possibilities of a new way of being with people in mental recovery. The model also emphasized the core value of lived experiences of an individual and his or her family and mutual understanding between the health professionals and the …show more content…
These types of comfort should be accomplished in the four contexts of comfort- physical, psychospiritual, environmental, and social. Kolcaba theory believes that when the nurses meet the patient expressed needs(relief) physically, psychospiritually, environmentally, and socially, the patient will be comfortable (at ease) and elevate above difficulties despite the discomfort and find strength without suffering(transcendence).
Conversely, the theory explains further that the primary purpose that a patient or anyone seeks health care is because of stressful situation that he/she cannot meet individually but can be relief and ease by the nurturing activities of the nurses. Therefore, it becomes paramount for nurses to use the best practice and policy to provide comfort interventions to enhance patient satisfaction and increase their health-seeking behavior. Through comfort management, patient and family are healed, strengthened, and motivated to be healthier.
Summary of an article: Comfort Theory in Practice—Nurse Anesthetists' Comfort Measures and Interventions in a Preoperative Context
Bergstrom, Hakansson, Stomberg, and Bjersa (2016) conducted an observational, semi-structured qualitative research to determine if nurse anesthetist's comfort measures in the preoperative context support the patients during the