Nursing process

order to increase nursing knowledge, according to Nelson and Staggers (2015), the ability to extract the unique data that nurses provide is essential. Utilizing a common language, standardized nursing terminology (SNT), allows for the organization of data, information and knowledge. Park (2014) asserted, coded SNT in the electronic health record EHR, allows for a comprehensive means to portray the “art of nursing”, the interventions and outcomes which are a direct result of nursing actions. The…

Caring in the Nursing Field The profession of nursing is built on the support of the Conceptual Framework Pillars. These five pillars are what keep the foundation of the nursing profession strong. These pillars shape a nurse into becoming hard working and successful. The five pillars help nursing students throughout their education process and it helps a nursing student to learn and develop as they go through the program. These five pillars all play an important role throughout a nurse’s…

The concept of caring means to offer one’s self without thought or malice. Caring is the internal attributes a person owns as an individual. Caring is essential and part of the nursing profession. Caring requires respect, knowledge, emotions, feelings, listening abilities, analytical skills and thought process. These qualities should be with the nurse while performing their daily duties. Caring stands on a higher Plato, it is a continuum throughout one’s life. In the hospital we as nurses say we…

Application of Concept Analysis on Nursing Intuition to Clinical Practice Concept analysis is used to understand and define the meaning of term or concepts. In this paper, the article entitled A power in clinical nursing practice: Concept analysis on nursing intuition by Robert, Tilley, and Petersen (2014) will be utilized. The term intuition or nursing intuition will be explored using concept analysis. The method of analysis, the steps of process and its results that was used in the…

Privilege In one word I can describe my nursing philosophy. Privilege. It is a complete privilege to conduct the artistic aspects of nursing. Science may be the foundation for this upcoming profession, but the artistic actions of a nurse is like the cherry on top. The act of caring for all individuals, both ill and well, and playing a vital role in the continuous process of health is a privilege. This privilege of caring for the phenomenal species of human beings is one I will not take for…

theoretical frameworks to further investigate a multitude of circumstances. The validity and practicality of middle range theories are proven with research. Results are utilized to strengthen or encourage changes with the current nursing knowledge, consequently improving nursing care. Conceptual frameworks of these theories are easier to correlate with existing bedside practice, situations, or clinical concerns. The purpose of this paper is to…

The Significance of Nursing Theorists The Principle of Caring The principle of delivering compassionate, quality care is vital to a patient’s overall healthcare status. Patients and families are under extreme stress in the healthcare environment dealing with unfamiliar surroundings, determinants of health, personal dilemmas, notwithstanding possible family dynamics (Ahtisham, & Jacoline, 2015). Since nurses spend much of their time with patients and families, they have a major impact on patient…

the foundation and direction as the basis of its practice. As a head nurse designated at the Critical Care Unit, I’d like to highlight three nursing theoretical frameworks I am constantly utilizing in our department, which are, Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Deficit theory, Jean Watson’s Philosophy and Science of Caring and Ida Jean Orlando’s Theory of Nursing Process Discipline. Being in a diverse set-up where majority of our clients are on their death beds, if not, intubated with medical assistive…

psychosocial, or environmental, Stella needs to reflect to see what are things that can be modified and what things are non-modifiable. The main thesis and concept of the theory is a nursing process approach to gather data, identify the capacities and needs of the human adaptive system, select and implement approaches for nursing care, and evaluate the outcome (RAM, 2012). This is done…

need of a redesign in the process of the patient’s care, little progress in the improvement of quality and safety has been achieved (Clark, 2013). Even though there were some important initiatives in the implementation of quality and safety after the report, only in 2013 The Joint Commission made a significant contribution in order to accelerate the process and enforced quality and safety through standards such as National Patient Safety Goals and Core Measures of nursing…