this was an assignment i did from my nursing foundations class. what do you think?
which nursing theory or theories did you find you most agreed with? from my reading of the text i really found that i agreed most with the bookends of the nursing theories presented. in other words i really liked nightingale's emphasis on maintaining a healthy and safe environment as the background of nursing care. if the nurse is always striving to maintaining "fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and adequate nutrition" (nightingale 1860 as cited in potter and perry) then the nurse is setting the stage for the patient to progress towards maslow's stage of self-actualization. i think that the client will interpret these actions by their nurse as caring which will stimulate increased effort towards improved health or adapting to the demands of chronic or terminal illness. i think that benner and wrubel's theory as described in the text illustrates this conceptual extension of nightingale's work. in other words, a healthy physical environment facilitates a healthy emotional environment between the client and nurse.
Although I don't always conciously use a particular theory in my day to day practice, I do like Orem's self care model (essentially do for the patient what they would do for themselves if they were able to) and a new theory that I have been studying in my RN-BSN program is Dr. Betty Neuman's Systems Model. I find that the Neuman Systems Model can be applied in virtually all settings.
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Although I don't always conciously use a particular theory in my day to day practice, I do like Orem's self care model (essentially do for the patient what they would do for themselves if they were able to) and a new theory that I have been studying in my RN-BSN program is Dr. Betty Neuman's Systems Model. I find that the Neuman Systems Model can be applied in virtually all settings.