Survey for a school project

[innovative.nurse]

Hi everyone,

I joined all nurses because I wanted to find out how much nurses and student nurses know about Jean Watson for a school project. If you have the time to answer at least the first question, I would REALLY appreciate it, even if you have no clue who she is. :-)

1) What do you know about Jean Watson? (Please don't use Google. That's fine if you know nothing about her)

2) How do you know what you know about Watson? (did you learn about her in nursing school, a workshop, ..?)

3) If you are in nursing school, are you in the 2 year program or the BScN program?

4) If you are a nurse, did you graduate from the 2 year program or the BScN program? And how long have you been working as a nurse?

5) What country are you studying nursing, or working as a nurse?

6) What do you think of her work? Do you think students should be taught more about it?

[AliNajaCat]

If you don't know where you're coming from, you don't know where you're going. Personally, I'm coming from Orem's Theory of Self-care Deficit. Briefly, it says that nursing provides for people what they aren't able to provide for themselves and will again when/if they are able.

"Orem's approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then to define the roles of patient or nurse to meet the self-care demands. The steps in the approach are thought of uas the technical component of the nursing process. Orem emphasizes that the technological component "must be coordinated with interpersonal and social pressures within nursing situations.

The nursing process in this model has three parts. First is the assessment, which collects data to determine the problem or concern that needs to be addressed. The next step is the diagnosis and creation of a nursing care plan. The third and final step of the nursing process is implementation and evaluation. The nurse sets the health care plan into motion to meet the goals set by the patient and his or her health care team, and, when finished, evaluate the nursing care by interpreting the results of the implementation of the plan."

[AliNajaCat]

Well, that's up to you.

As for me, I believe that if you don't know where you're coming from, you don't know where you're going. Personally, I'm coming from Orem's Theory of Self-care Deficit. Briefly, it says that nursing provides for people what they aren't able to provide for themselves and will again when/if they are able.

"Orem's approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then to define the roles of patient or nurse to meet the self-care demands. The steps in the approach are thought of uas the technical component of the nursing process. Orem emphasizes that the technological component "must be coordinated with interpersonal and social pressures within nursing situations.

The nursing process in this model has three parts. First is the assessment, which collects data to determine the problem or concern that needs to be addressed. The next step is the diagnosis and creation of a nursing care plan. The third and final step of the nursing process is implementation and evaluation. The nurse sets the health care plan into motion to meet the goals set by the patient and his or her health care team, and, when finished, evaluate the nursing care by interpreting the results of the implementation of the plan."

There are other theories that work better for other folks, such as Roy's Adaptation Model:

"The goal of nursing is to promote adaptation in the four adaptive modes. Nurses also promote adaptation for individuals and groups in the four adaptive modes, thus contributing to health, quality of life, and dying with dignity by assessing behaviors and factors that influence adaptive abilities and by intervening to enhance environmental interactions. The Four Adaptive Modes of Roy's Adaptation Model are physiologic needs, self-concept, role function, and interdependence.

The Adaptation Model includes a six-step nursing process.

1. The first level of assessment, which addresses the patient's behavior
   
2. The second level of assessment, which addresses the patient's stimuli
   
3. Diagnosis of the patient
   
4. Setting goals for the patient's health
   
5. Intervention to take actions in order to meet those goals
   
6. Evaluation of the result to determine if goals were met
   

Throughout the nursing process, the nurse and other health care professionals should make adaptations to the nursing care plan based on the patient's progress toward health."

There are others. You might look at what you do for patients differently depending on what model speaks to you most. Like I said, where you go depends on where you're coming from.