Nursing Theory Mystification Model

Jonathank · Mar 23, 2011

I feel you. I abhor our ADN program's fundamentals/med-surg/catch-all/kitchen sink "concept-based" textbook. The fluffy, undescriptive, pompous passive voice writing is just too hard to take sometimes. Not to mention, it's full of errors. I avoid reading it until I've read enough other sources that I feel I've grasped the material and can spot the inevitable errors.

rngreenhorn · Mar 23, 2011

I've tried to read the assigned chapters in my text. But I literally can't understand it... this is coming from someone who had no problem understanding Beowolf, Homer's Odyssey, or Milton's Paradise Lost. "Fluffy, undescriptive, pompous passive voice" is exactly the problem with nursing texts. Not to mention that every other sentence is referenced by some 1970's or 80's study that is distracting and quite frankly unimportant. Thanks for commiserating with me...

anonymousstudent · Mar 23, 2011

I have a 1154 page Public Health Nursing textbook. Never before have so many words been written that mean so little. They could easily summize the entire book in a couple of short essays. The salient feature of nursing theory is it's ability to extrapilate the crap out of the easiest subject to understand to form a mountain of theoretical bewilderment that is impossible to comprehend and is as interesting as a pile of dirt. Good job, nurse "educators"...

:lol2: I agree. Nurses alone don't carry this badge, most disciplines had the sense beat out of them a long time ago and have been left with a pile of useless dirt. For some reason humans find security in expanding on concepts to the point where the original idea and intent are indiscernible. I guess this makes us very precise but far from accurate? :rolleyes:

ImThatGuy, BSN, RN · Mar 23, 2011

I've also noticed that nursing books take up a whole lot of space to say not much of anything.

I think half of the foundations text book we had could've been summed up with "Sometimes people get sick and when people help them they tend to get well faster."

The acute care book's preface actually says, "We're here to make you feel like you're learning a lot. That's why we took 40 pages to describe what to do for someone that has a rash on their ass. In reality, entire volumes are written on each subject we merely touch on, but we chose to be verbiose and repeat things to ad nauseum to the point we had to create new words in order to justify the cost of this $185.00 text. Happy reading. You've just been nursed."

rngreenhorn · Mar 23, 2011

I can’t wait to get to the “ass rash” chapter in my community health nursing text. It’ll be an entire chapter on Healthy Asses in Communities and Cities 2020 (that phrase is a specifically defined term attached to a model with primary, secondary and tertiary prevention interventions ) It emphasis partnerships and action based on guiding principles that include a shared vision of community values, grounded in diversity and equality to support health though political and environmental multisectoral cooperation strategies in order to build a community’s local assets and resources and benchmarked against other programs to measure progress and outcomes so as to help citizen stop digitally scratching their gluteal clefts (Tookus, Rump & Fanny, 1976, p. 654).

Which could be summed up with “dude stop scratching your butt and put some goop on that rash.”

wldcard · Mar 23, 2011

I can't wait to get to the "ass rash" chapter in my community health nursing text. It'll be an entire chapter on Healthy Asses in Communities and Cities 2020 (that phrase is a specifically defined term attached to a model with primary, secondary and tertiary prevention interventions ) It emphasis partnerships and action based on guiding principles that include a shared vision of community values, grounded in diversity and equality to support health though political and environmental multisectoral cooperation strategies in order to build a community's local assets and resources and benchmarked against other programs to measure progress and outcomes so as to help citizen stop digitally scratching their gluteal clefts (Tookus, Rump & Fanny, 1976, p. 654).
Which could be summed up with "dude stop scratching your butt and put some goop on that rash."

This made me LOL first thing in the morning.... thank you. :yeah: