Nursing theory

personal philosophy of nursing is that nurses are meant to be caring for the client. Client is defined as individual, family and community. Nurses are responsible for providing a holistic and professional nursing care to patients in different settings. Moreover, the nurses are responsible for the quality and safety of patients care. The theory that best relates to my philosophy is Watson’s Theory of Human Caring. This theory provides valuable concepts that help to promote nursing practice.…

Nursing perspective is a vital structure to nursing practice because it provides the ethic of caring and help nurses reflects on how their backgrounds influence their practice. For most nurses, their approach to nursing care is adopted and relates to humanistic values of kindness, care, empathy, love and desire to help others. It is rooted in personal beliefs and principles, which is influenced by family, cultural background, religious teaching, education, environment, and other life…

Theories provide the whys for development, which theories are organized ideas that explain development. There are five different theories, which I believe that all five have influenced development in my life. For example, in the psychodynamic theory it we are taught how to resolve conflicts they we face at different ages, which is how Erikson eight stages come into play. Starting from birth I learned who I was able to trust and as the years passed by I learned to be independent, learn new…

this article where this method is aimed and a testing theory. It is a clear method and usually it begins with a hypothesis and followed by the emphasis which Is generally on causality. And on the front page under method: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional design is used. This is commonly associated with quantitative research. Deductive Reasoning is considered by many as a standard for scientific research in order to test whether the theories and hypothesis can be proved with specific…

developed many theories on stress. This paper is going to focus on three of those theories: person-environment fit theory, the ethological theory, and the crisis theory. Writers own definition on stress is introduced, and the different factors that have affected writer during the stressful time in her life. Furthermore, three stressors are discussed that may affect a nursing profession and the stress management techniques that could reduce those stressors. Person-environment fit theory focuses…

why or how the models of nursing fail to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This essay will describe some of those challenges. Discussion: Summary & Opinions The arguments about nursing models were the following. Nursing eludes definition; this meant that if the true meaning of nursing is yet to be identified how could there be a true nursing theory? Lack of prescription for practice; Nurses need to be knowledgeable in their work to be able to apply their theory in practice. Limits to…

• The main emphasis of nursing is care. • Caring is necessary for the health, wellness, healing, growth, existence and dealing sickness or demise. • Nursing care practices are directed by the holistic concept of culture care. • The main aim of nursing is to deliver care to individuals during sickness, wellness, and even death. • Curing is not possible in the absence of care. • There are variances in the culture care concepts within different cultures throughout the world. • Each culture has…

where the techniques, practices, and ways of caring for a patient came from in the nursing profession? Many theorists over time have developed their nursing theories to provide a framework for which nursing is practiced. A nursing theory is “a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that describes, explains, predicts, or prescribes nursing care” (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2013). The purpose of theories in nursing is to provide a way to assess patients and data, make decisions…

inquiry for holistic nursing practice: Model for research and evidence-based practice. Advanced Practice Nursing eJournal, 4(4). Available at: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/496363 Hill, S. S., & Howlett, H. S. (2013). Nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice. In Success in practical/vocational nursing: From student to leader (7th ed., pp.110-115). St. Louis: Elsevier. Holistic nursing. (2013). Retrieved June 16, 2014, from…

to explain that nursing syntax builds on “the consequences of particular world views” and not even one, which is consistent with the idea of having a more accurate representation of reality. So, human being need to be viewed and analyzed from different perspective as biological entity exhibiting behaviors, but also as a social and cultural component of the world (Gortner, 1993). None of these characteristics should be address separately. Moreover, development of nursing theories evolves…