The Vision for Nursing is a Bright
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Sharon Berry Facilitator
Arlene Leyba

December 1, 2014

United ICN, the nurses of all nations speak with one voice. We speak as advocates for all those we serve, and for all the unserved, insisting that prevention, care and cure be the right of every human being. We are in the vanguard of health care progress, shaping health policy around the world through our expertise, the strength of our numbers, the alignment of our efforts, and our collaboration with the public and with other health professionals. This statement identifies for me my vision of our future. We will no longer be held solely to bedside practices. We are ever changing and evolving. In order to look to the future we must recognize our past. Nursing theory has evolved from Florence nightingale’s principle relating the importance of ones surroundings to promote one’s health and well-being. She wrote “Nursing is the act of utilizing the environment to assist him in his recovery.(Nightingale,1860/1969).To now recognizing the theory of
Virginia Henderson who added to the theory by promoting the functions of the nurse as recognizing the whole body meeting the patients basic needs. “the unique function of the nurse …is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength will or knowledge”
(pg306) does this not tie into what we are trying to achieve in this decade and future health promotion and prevention. Yes it does. When we use our nursing theory we understand that with any theory we must have proof of what we have done and how we have been successful. We can use our theories as a guide for research as well collecting data analyzing that data and coming up with