Core aspects of Nursing Process

Nursing goes beyond caring for a patient during their illness and managing their disease process. Nursing includes adapting to a patient’s and their family’s physical, social, spiritual, environmental and psychological needs. I believe in treating the whole patient and being supportive of the family’s needs as well. Shelly & Miller (2006) asserts “while critical thinking, decision making, and leadership skills are extremely important, the characteristics nurses need most are compassion,…

soften to the idea of change. Next is contemplation which sees the client going between the desire to bring about change but also the familiarity and ease of keeping old habits. It is important for the nurse to explore and clarify the decision making process and identify strengths during this…

acquisition Nursing theories play an important role in providing guidance to nursing professionals and creating a predictable and reliable manner of offering nursing care. Nursing theories can be defined as logical and well-designed concepts, descriptions and ideologies that are based on various models of nursing for the purpose of providing generalized, as well as specific guidelines for nursing professionals. Nursing theories maybe generalized, offering wholesome guideline on the whole nursing…

seekers in the health and social care sector. The reason is effective communication helps the care seekers, to become comfortable with the care providers including the nurse that helps them to interact and provide effective care services. Thus, in the aspect of communication, therapeutic nurse-patient communication plays a crucial role, because, with the help of it, respect, warmth and empathy can be shown to the patients. In turn a positive relation gets developed between nurse and patient…

2017 LPN Scope of Practice The nursing profession is essentially like all other professions, with different levels of experience and education, requires different titles and level of practice followed. Inside the nursing practice there are different levels of caregivers that you work alongside, each of them having a different reason for being there. For example, in a nursing home you will work alongside non-certified personal, certified nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses,…

Nursing Core Values in Action According to the National League for Nursing (NLN) Education Competencies Model, there are 10 core values for nursing. These values are to assist nurses with providing compassionate, quality care while focusing on the unique needs of patients and their families. These 10 core values are caring, diversity, excellence, integrity, ethical decision making, holism, patient-centeredness, teaching/learning principles, nursing process, and leadership/management (NLN…

analysis of nursing concepts and contrast them to those of Betty Neuman in her Systems Model. Below I will provide a critical analysis of the meaning perspectives of person, environment, health and nursing, and identify which paradigm my thinking represents. Also I will summarize Neuman’s key ideas associated with the nursing concepts, compare them to my own definition of the nursing paradigm and explore how I can apply Neuman Systems Model in my nursing practice. Meaning Perspective of the…

who have furthered the development of nursing theory. Each one has contributed to the development of nursing knowledge that is used, event to this day (textbook chapter 5). Throughout this paper, different nursing theorists will be discussed, as well as, their theories; an application to the nursing profession, and other active theories. Nursing Theorists A very well-known and talented nursing theorist was, Virginia Henderson. She contributed to the nursing profession during her 60 years of…

professional nurse is as accurate today as when written in 1893. This paper will explain the characteristics of professional nursing, why developing a professional demeanor…

that the teacher is the source of knowledge and the student, a simple unlimited receiver of the same. Under this concept, the process of teaching is the transmission of knowledge, a way to communicate from teacher to student, through various media and techniques, as Strauss, Ziv, and Stein (2002) stated, “teaching, the…