Introduction Nursing knowledge developed from the period of Florence Nightingale until now through the development of nursing theories, philosophies and knowledge base practices. Nursing has a distinctive knowledge base and therefore it can be considered as a profession. As a profession nursing has a social responsibility to provide a knowledge base practice.,McCurry,Revell and roy((2009) Each discipline is having its own body of knowledge, Smith and McCarthy(2010).The term ontology has been used
Discussion of Evidenced-Based Practice as a Science The science of nursing is based on evidence-based practices and constitutes the core of nursing. What is wrong with the patient? Why are they here? What information do you have to support your care plan? What subtle changes in their condition are important? When do you respond to or call a doctor to intervene in their condition? Can you anticipate the coming needs of your patient based on the numbers and the results given to you? Can you correctly
Student’s Name Course/Number Due Date Faculty Name Dorothea Orem theory in practice Nursing theory refers to the body of knowledge which supports nursing practice by linking nursing research, knowledge and practice. The Healthy People Database estimates that in 2010 the population of aging people was 40 million, and the figure is expected to rise to about 70 million by 2030. The major health concerns regarding this aging population will be intervening, managing and treating chronic diseases
Nightingale, who lived from years 1820 -1910, was one of the pioneering theorists in the nursing history. She was the first to provide a theory to improve and develop health and transform nursing from a domestic service to a permanent profession. Since a young age, she cared for the poor and ill people and considered nursing and serving humans as a Christian duty (Selanders, 2012). Her contribution in providing nursing care for British soldiers fighting the Crimean War and negotiating with the male worlds
CONCEPT 4: NURSING PROCESS This concept is taken from module 4 of block 7 entitled “General Nursing”. 4.1. Significance of the Concept Nursing Process is an orderly, systematic manner of determining the clients problems, making plans to solve them, initiating the plan or assigning others to implement it, and evaluating the extent to which the plan was effective in resolving the problems identified (Dougherty and Lister, 2014). Nursing Process is the framework for providing professional, quality
CONCEPT 3: HOLISTIC NURSING This concept is taken from module 3 of block 7 entitled “General Nursing”. 3.1. Significance of the concept Holistic health views the physical, intellectual, socio-cultural, psychological and spiritual aspects of a person’s life as an integrated whole. These five aspects cannot be separated or isolated; anything that affects one aspect of a persons life also affects the other aspects. Holistic nursing is a way of being in which the nurse brings a state of harmony or
INTRODUCTION This contextual project work is from block 2 course titled “Research and Nursing research.” It entails 10 concepts from which personal, social job application, and recent researches. CONCEPT 1 This concept is from block 2 course, module 2.3 “Ethics in research”. Ethics can also be considered as morals rules that distinguish between right and wrong. It is a norm for conduct that distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. It can also be defined as the “discipline that
ideas, propositions, and concepts that initiate a general statement of a particular discipline (Alligood, 2014). The central goal or focus of the nursing profession is to develop the idea of providing different dimensions of care to patients by use of science (Dossey, 2010). To maintain the approach and the spirit among all clients, the aspect of meta-paradigm of nursing was developed and later implemented. The four meta-paradigm of nursing includes the person, health, nursing and the environment (Marriner-Tomey
of Nursing The Future of Nursing The Institute of Medicine (IOM) shows that the nursing profession constitutes the largest portion of the health care workforce in the country. Its membership exceeds three million individuals. Consequently, nurses are primarily involved in transforming the nation’s health care environment that lately proves to be rapidly changing. The IOM sought to achieve this by considering various crucial recommendation as a guide to the direction that the future of nursing will
in the year 1914, was a nursing theorist who had a vast experience in the nursing field. Self-care deficit nursing theory is a grand nursing theory which was set forth by Dorothea Orem in the year 1959 as part of her study to identify under circumstances which required nursing care (Orem, 2001). Orem published her first book in the year 1971 named Nursing : Concepts in practice and continued to release improved editions till 2001. In Dorothea Orem’s metaparadigm of nursing, a person is referred to