...NURSING PHILOSOPHY, 1 NURSING PHILOSOPHY NURSING PHILOSOPHY, 2 Nursing philosophy Definitions Philosophy Philosophies encompass a multitude of value statements and beliefs. Philosophies are based on knowledge derived from reality, personal values, existence, reasoning, and relevant presentation of concepts. According to Alligood (2014), they address concepts such as person, environment, health, and nursing. Philosophies are derived from different theoretical works which affirm general ideas pertaining to those works. Philosophies are all based on individual ideas which conceptualize different views of nursing. Alligood (2014) suggests that philosophies broaden everyday views of nursing. Nursing Philosophy Nursing philosophy is a representation of philosophy as it directly relates to nursing. According to Alligood (2014), specific nursing philosophies encompass theory guided nursing practice. The three different philosophies of nursing that each has their own value system are Nightingale’s, Watson’s and Benner’s. Each philosophy addresses its own concept of nursing care and factors that are associated with that. Alligood (2014) suggests nursing philosophies give us different views to consider when applying nursing care. Each philosophy serves its purpose as an interpretation of a rationalized value system of ideas of nursing care. Metaparadigm A metaparadigm is a knowledge type of nursing. The core basis of nursing is...
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...Introduction Traditionally the nursing metaparadigm involves four core concepts: nursing, health, person and environment. However, as the discipline is constantly evolving, a more adaptable viewpoint may better encompass the various aspects of the metaparadigm. This essay will be comparing and contrasting the core concepts of nursing that are seen in two different articles; one that conforms to the more traditional metaparadigm concepts and a second which has a more open point of view. After careful examination and comparison of the key concepts in both articles, I will be discussing how they fit into my own nursing practice. Fawcett’s article, which analysed a research study on the implementation of evidence-based nursing practice (EBNP), encompasses all four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm. This approach to the examination of the nursing metaparadigm has a specific focus on nursing and the environment. The study aims to change the environment of nursing care by encouraging nursing directors and executives to disseminate information and training revolving around evidence-based nursing practice to nurses. The underlying goal is to streamline nursing care, improve patient outcomes, and lessen redundancies and workplace frustration. In comparison, Newman’s article has a broader scope of focus using the unitary-transformative paradigm. The aim of this article is to examine the progress made in the development and growth of the field of nursing, using the seven core concepts:...
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...and demented, have the greatest risk for being restrained in medical facilities (Kope et al., 2012). Physical restraints include hand mitts, waist belts, and wrist restraints to prevent body movements. The most common misconception among nurses is that restraints prevent falls or injuries (Kope et al., 2012). Data Bases and Key Terms The data base used to research effects of physical restraints in reducing injuries was CINAHL. The key words used for the search were adults, physical restraints, falls and injuries, alternative methods, education, knowledge, attitudes, and evidence-based practice. Interventional Study One In 2010, the Department of Nursing Research, University of Sweden conducted a study on restraint...
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...interactive, and unitary process. Which of these best fits your philosophy of nursing? A paradigm is an overall way of looking at a discipline and its science. Paradigm shifts happen when reality no longer fits current theories of science (McEwen & Willis, 2014). The human needs paradigm only identifies the scientific method as a basis of knowledge. Result of experiments may not apply to natural situation. Change and reaction to the environment is casual. In the interactive process humans are viewed holistically. There is a definite correlation between human interaction and their environment. There are many factors effecting change. In this process quantitative and qualitative research is encouraged. The unitary process views humans as unitary beings, which are self-evolving. Humans are constantly changing and interacting within the universe. These theories noted that human beings are known by their pattern of energy. My worldview and nursing philosophy is best represented by the interactive models. I believe that humans are holistic interactive individuals. We interact with our families, communities, health, and the environment. I think Watson’s 10 carative factors are important interventions to nursing care (McEwen & Willis, 2014. p. 184). McEwen, M., & Willis, E. M. (2014). Theoretical Basis for Nursing (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Nursing practice is about continuous growth and change. Nurses can develop their practice...
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...Center and University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing, where she held a Chair in Caring Science for 16 years. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Watson has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing. She currently holds her PhD in educational psychology and counseling. She is a widely published author and recipient of many awards and honors, including The Fetzer Institute Norman Cousins Award, in recognition of her commitment to developing, maintaining and exemplifying relationship-centered care practices; an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden. She holds ten honorary doctoral degrees, including seven international honorary doctorates (Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, British Columbia, Quebec, Canada, and Japan.) Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing. Dr. Watson's caring philosophy is used to guide transformative models of caring and healing practices for nurses and patients alike, in diverse settings worldwide. (http://watsoncaringscience.org) Dr. Watson's theory is caring science. Caring science includes human science orientation to human caring processes and experiences. A caring science viewpoint is based in a relational ontology of being in relation...
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...professional nursing practice" (Rubric). Precisely, then, a BRN strives to ensure that certain standards are followed statewide for regulatory excellence for public health. You can visit the NCSBN website for a thorough understanding. Likewise, a professional nursing organization such as American Nurses Association (ANA) provides support, assistance, and motivation to professional nurses to network and collaborate with other nurses to grow professionally. It also has a focus on policy, practice, and politics in the interest of professional nurses. Check its Statement of Purpose. You can quote these two resources and dedicate on paragraph to each. You also might want to add a book or journal reference to make it even juicier. B. Nursing Code Examples This can be tricky, but it's easy. It asks you to exhibit your understanding of at least "2 examples of how provisions from a nursing code of ethics influence [your] practice" (Rubric). Simply, visit this page Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements (ANA) and choose 2 of the given provisions that closely relate to your nursing style and aptitude. For a logical discussion, simply quote 1 or 2 references from available research. So, let's say that you've picked up Provision 1: Respect for Inherent Dignity and Provision 3: To Protect the Health of people. Quote these provisions verbatim following APA and then extend the discussion by making references to 1 or 2 reliable sources and adding your viewpoint in between...
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...Nursing has been struggling to be recognized as an academic discipline ever since the 1960s, when the American Nurses Association published a position paper that supported baccalaureate education as the entry level to practice (McCance & McKenna 1999). Previously, most nursing education took place in hospital schools (diploma programs), and the profession was very much under the control of medicine. Now, there's a lot to be said in favor of diploma programs, mostly the fact that diploma graduates usually have much more clinical experience, and are therefore more technically skilled than other entry-level graduates. However, the biggest disadvantage of these schools was that they did not teach nursing theory. Florence Nightengale was incorporated somewhat but the majority of the curricula were medically based. Nurses depended heavily on physiology, sociology, psychology, and medicine to provide academic standing and to inform practice (McEwan and Mills 2014). Some of the nursing classes were taught by the physicians, namely physiology and pathophysiology, and anatomy. Therefore, nurses were taught and trained to be the handmaidens of the physicians. In many circumstances, they were taught precisely what their doctors wanted, and how to anticipate and execute their doctors’ orders. They were also taught how to care for their doctors' patients. The regulatory and professional organizations in nursing education have required that critical thinking be essential to all nursing...
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...Description of Evidence Evidence 1: The first piece of evidence demonstrating the criteria related to critical thinking is a concept analysis paper written on the topic of Critical Thinking in Nursing, completed for NUSC 5003, Theory in Nursing, in the Spring Semester of 2015 (Appendix A). The purpose of this paper was to expand on the interpretations of critical thinking including the analysis of the characteristics or qualities of critical thinking in nursing based on selected literature reviews from multiple disciplines using the Walker and Avant model. Incorporates multiple perspectives in the advanced practice learning process (i.e. diverse ways of thinking, roles). In this paper, I analyzed diverse concepts of critical thinking by...
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...Nursing Science INTRODUCTION Short Overview of History of Nursing Education Nurse education expands to empirical and theoretical frameworks introduced to future nurses and aimed at preparing them for completing tasks in a nursing care unit. The education is also introduced to nursing students by professional nurses and other medical experts who have been taught to accomplish a range of educational tasks. Previously, prior to the development of the theoretical foundations proposed by Florence Nightingale, nursing was considered purely from a medical viewpoint, which involved medical intervention and treatment. Further investigations and development of nursing education has been largely influenced by other disciplines, including ethics, morale, and philosophy which teaches future nurse to perceive persons not only as patients with certain disorders, but as holistic beings whose concerns also depend on their social, cultural, and political backgrounds. Contemporary arrangements also focus on the development of the balance between practical implications and theoretical foundation to shape a new patient-centered vision on nursing and health care. Purpose Statement The main purpose of this paper is to trace the shifts in nursing education, starting from the development of Nightingale’s model and focusing on the present underpinnings and alterations in nurses’ training. Florence Nightingale Concepts and Frameworks With the advent of Nightingale’s concepts in nursing, a rigid...
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...received her nursing diploma from “Lewis-Gale School of Nursing” in Roanoke, VA, in 1961. She went on to complete her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Colorado. She obtained a “PhD” in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Her primary work has been in the psychiatric field of nursing. Dr. Watson has taught many nursing courses through the years as well as did research and wrote numerous books and articles. Most of her work since 2000 has been on her theory and philosophy of caring. She has traveled and lectured across the world, studying and lecturing on her theories on nursing. In 1980, Watson and her associates started the “Center for Human Caring” at the University of Colorado (Alligood & Toomey, 2010, p. 92). Watson wrote her first book on the philosophy and science of nursing in 1979. She developed “10 carative factors”, which Watson describes as being the main ideas of nursing. The carative factors consider the persons involved in practice of caring. She believes in instilling faith and hope and being sensitive to self and others. Watson’s carative factors also are based on developing a trusting relationship with the person or patient. The creation of a healing environment that respects the wholeness and dignity of the person is a carative factor. Watson also looks at the human beings as a whole, consisting of body, mind and soul. She also believes in spirituality of all human beings. She believes in “transpersonal nursing-caring healing”...
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...The Nursing Metaparadigm Concepts Presented to Dr. Peck GNRS 5373 By Fatema Bandookwala, Irene Cotten, Amanda Garcia, Elizabeth Mbutu-Lomeli, Hawa Samson-Metzger, Alexandria Thomas On September 25, 2013 The University of Texas Medical Branch School Of Nursing THE NURSING METAPARADIGM CONCEPTS The nursing metaparadigm concepts described by Fawcett (as cited in McEwen & Willis, 2011), are a primary phenomena of interest to a discipline, which identifies globally by ways in which, nursing can deal with those phenomena in a distinctive and applicable manner. The functional aspects of the meta-paradigm according to Kim (as cited in McEwen & Willis, 2011), involve a combination of intellectual and social missions of nursing as a discipline in which boundaries are placed on the subject matter. The concepts of person, health, environment, and nursing as the meta-paradigm are formalized by Fawcett (as cited in McEwen & Willis, 2011) to be the dominant phenomena within the science of nursing. The dominant phenomena person is the individual personality of a human being (McQuiston &Webb, 1995). It is a dynamic pattern of energy and an open system to interaction with the environment (McEwen & Wills, 2011). It is critical to have an interpersonal relationship between nurses, patients, family members, and other hospital personnel. Hildegard Paplau originally taught the importance of relationships between nurses and patients (Tourville...
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...Nursing Vision Transforming nursing education as it now stands is key for a superior vision of nursing practice. At the absolute minimum, nursing education should prepare individuals to be competent beginners to start practicing in the field. However, on a larger scale, nursing education needs to be much loftier so that it can turn students into leaders as opposed to simple participants in this truly dynamic profession. “Nursing education at all levels needs to provide a better understanding of and experience in care management, quality improvement methods, systems-level change management, and the reconceptualized roles of nurses in a reformed health care system” (Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2011). All of these ingredients are necessary to create nurses who truly anticipate patient needs, who have a much loftier understanding of superior practice methods, and who have a more modern viewpoint on the role of nurses in the healthcare industry. Currently, it appears that nursing education serves only to equip most students with the basic skills to work as nurses with the thought that they’ll build their skills as they go along with experience. While this is partly true, nursing education needs to take on more of the burden when it comes to preparing students for the challenges of clinical practice. Nursing education at its highest level of quality needs to teach students how to meet the needs of a diverse range of patients, how to function more confidently...
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...Influenced by phenomenology philosophy, this grand nursing theory has the understanding that individuals with the connection to the universe have the ability to decide paths of becoming (Wills, 2011). In order to understand the congruency, the major assumptions, concepts, and relationships of the HBT must be discussed first. According to Malinski (2015), there were initially nine assumptions that were later condensed into three assumptions. The three assumptions of humanbecoming are listed by Maliski (2015) as the following, “…freely choosing personal meanings situated in the intersubjective process of living value priorities, cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe, and contranscending multidimensionally with emerging possibilities” (p. 457). To summarize the...
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...Concept Comparison and Analysis Across Nursing Theories Dana Montgomery NUR/513 Mary Nicks Abstract Define caring? Caring is a critical element of caring in the profession of nursing. It is the groundwork approach that is utilized in day to day practice. Many theories have been studied in regards to caring. For the purpose of this paper, I will be discussing Marilyn Ann Ray’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring, Madeline Leininger’s Cultural Caring Theory, and Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring. The Theory of Bureaucratic caring was created for a more multifaceted institute while the Cultural Caring theory identifies the need for cultural awareness in caring. Theory of Caring describes caring in a more methodical approach. The meaning of caring respectively has similar qualities, but the approaches are entirely different. This paper will elucidate on these three theories of caring, compare and analyze their concept definitions, and apply a specific theory to practice. Caring is defined as feeling and displaying concern or empathy for others. Nursing has become more convoluted with advancing technology and continuous changes, it can be very challenging. For an individual to become an efficient nurse they must have a positive perception of what caring is as it has become a vital part of nursing. Concepts are essential to theory development and have often been referred to as the building blocks or structural components of theory (Chinn & Kramer 1999). As a core concept...
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...History of Nursing Worksheet NUR433 April 23, 2012 University of Phoenix Material History of Nursing Research Worksheet There have been many influential publications, agencies, and people in the field of nursing research. Write 1–3 sentences in each cell of the table below to describe the importance, goal, or influence of each item. |Publications |First publication date and importance: | |Nursing Research |First published: Nursing Research was first published in 1952. | | |Importance: As clinical research started to expand and specialty | | |groups started to form within nursing practice, this journal was the| | |first research journal published (Burns & Grove, 2011). | |Sigma Theta Tau Journal published by this organization is |First published: As clinical studies started to become more | |now called Image—The Journal of Nursing Scholarship |available, Sigma Theta Tau, the national honor society for nurses, | | |first published Image in 1967, the name was changed to The Journal | | |of Nursing Scholarship and...
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