Essays on Nursing Process

ISP Instructions

Use this form to develop your Individual Success Plan (ISP) for NRS-490, the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. An individual success plan maps out what you, the RN-to-BSN student, needs to accomplish in order to be successful as you work through this course and complete your overall program of study. You will also share this with your mentor at the beginning and end of this course so that he or she will know what you need to accomplish. Application-based learning assignments are listed in the course syllabus with a Practice Portfolio Statement requirement element noted within the assignment itself. ...

Differences in competencies between nurses prepared at the ADN versus the BSN

The nursing curriculum has been evolving over time to meet the needs and demands of the population which have been changing over time. In a bid to ensure that care delivery meets the optimal goals of recovery, restoration and sustaining a high quality of life, the basic foundation for the nursing profession has been on ensuring that the curriculum adequately prepares the nurses for the tasks ahead (Auerbach, Buerhaus, & Staiger, 2015). A particular response that the profession can refer is the Future of Nursing Report by the Institute of Medicine which required that nurses be allowed to the highest ...

A theory is defined as a set of correlated concepts that propose actions to guide a practice; they are coherent general propositions whose principles are used as a basis for explanations. Nursing theories are set of concepts and propositions from nursing models whose purpose is to provide a systematic view of phenomena through description and explanation (Butts & Rich, 2013). Nursing theories and models are known to play an important role in the development and growth of nursing profession by providing foundations for practice and generating knowledge for future nursing. Betty Neuman’s General System Theory was first published in ...

The main objective of any health care system is to provide patient care with desirable patient outcomes. Simply put, a health care system strives to promote well-being and heath status of all human beings. It is also important to note that most aspects of the healthcare focus on prevention and management of pain among patients because freedom from pain is an essential dimension of health. Additionally, pain among patients is a multidimensional phenomenon that requires a broad, integrated and a comprehensive care model (Glare et al., 2014). Many studies that have been carried out by various scholars on health ...

Virginia Henderson- Need Theory

Virginia Henderson developed the Nursing Need Theory based on her personal experience gained through practice and education (Zamanzadeh, et al. 2015). Henderson’s core objective was not to form or develop a theory but focus on the core principles associated with nursing practice. She focused on the various factors that contribute to be a successful nursing professional. Henderson through her theory proposed the concept of patient’s independence and improved health outcomes. She states that letting patients independently perform key tasks would fasten the recovery process and decrease the overall hospitalization stay. She states that nursing practice is closely ...

The Maryland Nurse Practice Act states that a registered nurse graduate demonstrates accountability for maintaining professional practice standards in relation to holistic care across diverse settings, legal and ethical behaviors, and lifelong learning in accordance with the Maryland Practice Act (Maryland Board of Nursing, 2017). The Act sets the stage for what may be considered to be critical to the advancement of nursing as it highlights ethical and aesthetic issues as well as client needs in maintaining accountability and professional practice standards. In terms of client needs, the nurse’s perception of the patient and the needs of a ...

Affiliated University

Families come in different forms in modern times. The conventional definition of a family has evolved from the conventional relation by blood to accommodate diverse relationships. Such relationships include blended families, single parent families, and even same gender families. Some people also consider exchange students and even friends who move in with them as part of the family. All these diverse relationships mean that every family faces a unique set of challenges. However, community nursing provides an advantage to the health worker who faces those diverse challenges. The family in question was a single parent family. The family only ...

Ida Jean Orlando is one of the renowned nursing theorists who proposed that the nursing process should involve effective interaction with patients as it leads to successful interventions and positive outcomes. The main objective of Orlando’s theory is that planning of care and accomplishing interventions without obtaining the mutual consent of the patients is unprofessional (Alligood, 2013). In other words, the theorist states that nursing professionals should seek the mutual understanding of patients before appropriate planning. After testing Orlando’s theory in several health care facilities and settings, nursing professionals have been supporting its implementation as the theory ...

This paper discusses the significance of biopsychosocial model in the field of healthcare. A biopsychosocial model is a tool that a general practitioner utilizes to inspect how psychosomatic disorders build up. According to White (2005), the bio-psychosocial model affirms ill health is indomitable by a forceful contact between natural, mental, and societal factors (White, 2005). The lesson provides a classification of the bio-psychosocial model and provides exact details to demonstrate that how it can be used. To help enlighten the complications, the general practitioners have implemented various models and theories that explain that how several factors contribute to healthiness ...

A key element of the nursing process is the ability to assess the patient holistically and define their needs within the preexisting socioeconomic, socio-cultural and policy borders (Melnyk, 38). Nurses in their day to day activities encounter or interact with patients with varying needs but depicting similarity of needs. One of the primary goals of care is to ensure that the patient, within any setting and in the presence of any healthcare provider is afforded quality care as that which he/she would be afforded by different personnel in a different setting (Scully, 93). The purpose of nursing theories is ...

Mary Koroma

Bowie State University Abstract There have been a lot of innovations and inventions in the way healthcare services have been provided to persons in the country. Such advancements in the healthcare delivery process have seen improvements in terms of the modalities through which patients receive treatments and the pharmaceuticals needed to address their specific problems. Similarly, there are other techniques that are being taken into account in addressing the healthcare issues of people in the country. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of the alternative treatment techniques that can be used in ensuring that patients come out with ...

The concept of patient-centric care is based on the prioritization of patient needs and the tailoring of the care plan to the specific cultural, social, economic, spiritual and psychological needs of the patient. This approach has significantly helped improve patient outcomes due to the increased focus on the holistic management of the patient meaning that all the existing socioeconomic and cultural demands of the patient are met at the point of care (Purtilo & Doherty, 2015). However, this approach has not been easy for the nurses and the healthcare worker. While the focus has been on ensuring that the beliefs, ...

As Madeleine Leininger noted, nursing is built on the element of caring; nurses are caregivers and thus their interaction with the patient is a necessity rather than an option. Any role that falls within nursing and seeks to cut off the link with the patient cannot in any way find its basis in nursing. My philosophy is built on Linenger’s description of the role of nursing as a process that affords a patient in need the chance to meet and interact with a caregiver who cannot only give them access to resources but can help them cope within ...

A major milestone for the healthcare sector today is the increased focus on patient outcomes and the insistence on the need for accountability in optimization of resources. The nursing process is theoretically an intervention that helps patients fulfill their unmet needs and therefore nurses act as the point of interaction between the patient, their families and the general population with the mechanisms that facilitate meeting those needs. The healthcare sector in itself seeks to continually help people recognize the health and illness continuum and thus help them adapt to the dynamics of this continuum so that they maintain a ...

U2D1-NURSING RESEARCH PRIORITIES

- How does the NINR support novice and experienced nurse researchers? NINR supports novice and experienced nurse researchers through provision continuous training programs. NINR offers various training programs that allow career development. It funds the training programs for the trainees and this allows the achievement of the objectives. - Identify two current priorities for nursing research identified by the NINR The current priorities of nursing research are to develop knowledge that will eliminate and prevent disease. The nursing research knowledge acquired will build scientific foundation important for clinical practice. It aims in enhancing palliative care and ...

An NCD or non-communicable disease is a disease that cannot be transmissible among people. It is also a disease that is non-inflectional. On the other hand, a communicable disease is a disease that is easily transmissible among people. Examples of non-communicable diseases are diabetes, asthma, cancers and heart diseases. Examples of communicable diseases include flu, Ebola, influenza, salmonella, and measles (Porche, 2004).

In the case, James is in great danger. Because of his parents’ personal beliefs, James was not immunized. He can easily get infected. He can get diseases such as smallpox, measles, polio, and others that can affect his well-being and growth. ...

A. Background

The theory of Self-care Deficit was developed by Dorothea Orem. This theory states that a self-care deficit occurs when the patient or the guardians of dependents are unable to meet the requisites for self-care (Edney, Jaime & Young, n.d.). When this happens, nursing help is needed. More specifically, nursing care is used to help people enhance their self-care abilities, which they would need for survival and for maintaining their well-being and their quality of life.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1914, Orem completed her diploma program from the Providence High School of Nursing and later received her bachelor’s and ...

Nursing Informatics and Nursing Leadership

The new technology has changed the delivery of health care. As a result, clinicians and nurses are integrating wireless solutions, high-speed data networks, automated exchanges and handheld devices into the delivery of services. This revolution has also affected the nursing profession. It is imperative that nurses are able to adapt to this new working environment. This calls for a change in the expectations of a nurse regarding the delivery and communication of care. Additionally, there is a requirement for the understanding of how the revolution has changed practice through the incorporation of new solutions. The integration of nursing informatics is especially important for ...

Amongst mentally ill patients at high risk for early readmission, does the utilization of a multi-component transition care plan as compared to usual care help to improve early readmission rates?

Abstract

The early hospital readmission rate in a 30-bed psychiatric unit in California is 25%. This figure is higher than the 13% reported in the literature for high-income countries like the US (Vigod et al., 2013). Early readmissions are problematic as they are costly and disruptive to the personal and professional lives of patients and their family members. In addition, they are construed to be negative patient outcomes and negative indicators of ...

Critical Thinking

Introduction As learnt through the course, critical thinking is at the core of nurse process. Critical thinking enables the nursing process meet various core competencies, most chiefly ensuring that the delivery of health care is patient centered. Additionally, critical thinking augments the ability of the nursing process to utilize evidence based practices in the delivery of health care services. While this highlights some of the influences of critical thinking in the nursing process, it also poses challenges to the nursing institution to eliminate some of the impediments to service delivery. For instance, critical thinking as it is used ...

Introduction

Betty Newman was born in Ohio in 1924 and in 1947 marked the beginning of her journey as a nurse upon completing her RN diploma. In the preceding years, Newman amassed a rich knowledge in nursing ranging from nursing leadership, clinical practice, in critical care and surgical nursing. In 1966 she completed her Masters degree in mental health and since then she embarked on mental health community programs where she developed the Newman’s systems model that since then gained a lot of momentum in real clinical practice and situations (Alligood, 2013).

The theory is grounded on the following core concepts

Human being The theory views the human being as a ...

- Introduction As a profession, nursing existed since the early years of civilization. Although nursing in the early days was not sophisticated or complex as it is in the contemporary, various attempts were made to improve on care given to the patients (Parker, 2010). In fact, nursing as a field has its roots in the early attempts by human kind to provide care to the sick and the weak. It was through progressive modifications, adjustments and improvements that nursing or caring evolved into a large field with its roots deeply grounded in various concepts. Nursing concepts since the inception of care ...

Introduction

Alcohol and substance abuse is a health problem of concern to the community. Alcohol and substance abuse not only affects the health of the users directly, but also predisposes them to other life threatening situations. The prevalence of alcohol dependence in the community and at national levels is worrisome. In response to the worrying statistics, this project was designed to raise the awareness of people on the dangers of alcohol and substance abuse, hoping for behavior, attitudes and change in practices.

Rationale for Intervention

The future of any nation is vested in their young population (Nies & McEwen, 2013). As such, the health of ...

Importance of Health

Introduction In order to understand the importance of health, one should focus on the statistics on a particular aggregate group. Various indicators are floated in order to describe the health status of this particular group. This paper will consider the children of America as an aggregate group. Using literature from various scholars, the paper will examine this aggregate group with regards to various indicators. The paper will also examine where the responsibilities for the health of this aggregate group fall. In recognition of the raging disparities to access of health services for this group, this paper will evaluate how ...

1970-1980’s (Newman, Parse, Watson, Rogers) iv. Development of the metaparadigm per Fawcett

v. Development of paradigms 1. Simultaneity and Totality 2. Particulate-Deterministic, Interactive -Integrative, Unitary Transformative III. Discuss knowledge development in nursing (10 points) a. Carper’s Ways of Knowing b. Emancipatory Knowing c. Ways of unknowing d. Role of research e. Role of the socio political environment IV. Application/Synthesis for Advanced Practice (10 points)

Describe how the new advanced knowledge, in the course to date has informed and influenced your own perspective on nursing:

i. Philosophic a. What philosophy is most congruent with your own personal philosophy and why? ii. Paradigm of Nursing a. Discuss the congruence between your nursing philosophy and your nursing paradigm b. Describe ...

Application of the Nursing Process

Part 1 Nursing process is a systematic, organised, and holistic patient-centred approach in delivering care to patients. The nursing process has five steps that include assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The second step in the nursing process is diagnosis. In this step, registered nurses make clinical judgments based on data gathered in the assessment step about the client’s health problem and the potential health problem of the client. Nurses also make judgements on the ability of the clients to adopt practices that can improve their health. For instance, the assessment of the old man in the ...

Nursing has been acknowledged among the oldest and noble professions globally. Accurately, it entails provision of healthcare to individuals and to maintain a quality healthy life. Factually, the nursing process is a systematic problem solving method that directs Registered Professional Nurses (RNs) in meeting the needs of patients a process that has been created to provide individualized nursing care plans. However, contemporarily, practicing RNs verbalize that “care plans” are no longer used in clinical practice often. Registered Professional Nurses (RNs) who fail to see the benefit of nursing care plans and view it as busy work must understand the profession of ...

The nursing process is a scientific procedure applied in the nursing profession to ensure patient receive quality care. Also, it uses a systematic, holistic and problem solving approach together with the patient and their family. The nursing process identifies the care to be given and a record that show who prescribed the care. Further, it is intended to guide the team involved directly with the patient and the basis for continuous treatment. The process is divided into phases; assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementing and evaluation phase First, in the assessment phase the professional nurse collect information about the patient’s health status. ...

Abstract

Psychological Nursing is a nursing specialty that deals with and care for people with mental distress or mental health illnesses like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia or depression. Registered psychological mental health nurses work with families, groups, communities and individuals of all ages attending to their health needs. In this specialty, nurses receive intense training in psychological therapies. They deal with demanding behavior and psychiatric medication administration. Traditionally, mentally ill people in the society were removed and placed in asylums, indefinitely, patients inside the mental health system were required to take compliant roles in management of their own care and decision ...

Introduction

Patient health outcome is influenced by different factors. One of these factors is the nursing staff-patient ratio. Nurse staffing and how it affects the patient and nurse outcomes is of major concern to the hospital administrators and policy makers. This can be linked to the findings of several researches done relating to the outcomes of nurse-patient ratios. Since delivery of high-quality patient care is a key motivating factor for managers, understanding this myriad of issues and providing key solutions will be a beneficial step towards restructuring the nurse-patient relationship within the health care system. The review paper by (Patternson, 2011) pointed ...

Curriculum Framework

Nursing curriculum is informed by theoretical principles, concepts, and models. These concepts, beliefs, and philosophies are described in an organization’s curriculum organizing framework (Remillard, 2013). This paper will describe the philosophy, concepts rationale, and proposed uses of a curriculum framework designed for a nursing program.

Philosophical Foundation

The inherent beliefs about the four metaparadigms of nursing that are person, nursing, environment, and health will constitute the philosophical underpinnings of the framework. It is essential for the framework to have a philosophical underbelly because the attitudes, values, behaviors, choices, knowledge, and ethics which underpin nursing practice are informed by philosophical thought. The major concepts ...

Describe the nursing process and to develop nursing diagnosis based

The nursing process is the pillar in the delivery of quality health care services. It is considered as a tool that helps nurses to provide an integrated and holistic approach to patient care. According to the American Nurses Association (n.d.), nurses exercise a dynamic method of collecting data through the assessment of patient needs and conditions and then apply a clinical judgment in making a diagnosis to help them achieve a measurable and achievable short and long term goals of treatment. The implementation of the nursing process in clinical practice allows a nurse to deliver a patient centered care with the ability to provide individualized nursing ...

Abstract

Nursing Process Theory as deliberated by Orlando looks at the interaction existing between a patient and a nurse, validation of perception and how the nursing process can be used to come up with outcomes that are positive or improvement in patients. The main focus that Orlando had in mind was to provide a clear definition of the function of nursing. The theory has been one of the most effective theories that can be practiced by nurses. The use of this theory enables the nurse to keep her focus on the patient alone. It comes out as a very concise, clear and a theory that ...

Reflective Nursing

Reflection in the Nursing Process Role of Reflection In the nursing process, reflection is necessary for improving the standards of practice. For reflective practice, specific areas are identified by the Johns model (Somerville & Keeling, 2004, p. 42). These include the description of an experience that is important to the learner, identification of personal issues that emerge from the experience, focus on personal goals, having empathy for others involved in the experience, and becoming aware of personal beliefs and values. Reflection then goes through the phase of linking the experience with earlier experiences, creating alternatives for future ...

In your area of nursing practice, which need (of either Erikson or Maslow) do you think is the least met?

When evaluating Maslow’s (1943) pyramid relating his interpretation of basic human needs, it has always been my concern that after moving away from the low level needs pertaining to air, water, food clothing, shelter there is very little scope for health care professionals to address the higher level needs beyond love and affection. After this level there is sexuality and self-actualization; problem solving spontaneity, creativity and confidence. As such, in my opinion the higher level needs are least met, especially, those which lead to self-actualization. Precisely, they encompass creativity. Importantly, when applying the nursing process how can the ...

The nursing process involves the function of nurses in delivering patient care that is based on various nursing models and philosophies. It is a process that is widely viewed as the key towards a more advanced theoretically based nursing practice (Habermann and Uys, 2006). The research process on the other hand involves the systematically processed steps that are needed to be undertaken in order to carry out a nursing research. Both the nursing and research processes are complementary to each other which aim to improve quality patient outcomes in the field of the nursing practice and while they share some similarities they ...

1. How Dorothea Orem theory led to nursing actions that have made important differences to patients. The Dorothea Orem Theory is a general theory on nursing which focused on three concepts, namely, the theory of self care, the theory of self care deficit and the theory of nursing system. Patients benefitted from the Orem’s general theory of nursing because it paved the way for changes in the nursing actions. In Orem’s theory of self-care, Orem espoused the idea that an individual can initiate and perform activities that will benefit his health and well-being. With this theory, patients ...

Nursing theory

Introduction A nursing theory can be considered to be a group or set ideas, concepts or notions that are interrelated to create systematic approach towards a particular incident, fact or phenomenon in nursing (Tomey & Alligood, 2002). The application of these ideas or concepts should have a predictive outcome as the end result. Subsequently, in nursing, various outcomes are based on the application of various ideas, concepts and notions towards that outcome. For instance, the recovery process and speed of a patient can be attributed or linked to the applied treatment, environmental conditions under which the patient is placed as well as the ...

Abstract

Theories in nursing provide an avenue where the perspectives of nurse are described and explored in clinical phenomena. The perspectives include the definition ’what’ of nursing, ’who’ of nursing and when nursing services are needed. The goals and boundaries of a nurse are identified in a theory. Theories are composed of concepts, propositions, frameworks and assumptions which they are based on. Since this paper looks at the accepted theory and how it affects nursing care of patients, Peplau’s theory of interpersonal communication will be discussed. Hildegard Peplau theory is based on the psychodynamic nursing. The relationship between the nurse and ...

Part 1- Presentation of nurse theorist and nursing theory

Introduction Personal Information Educational background Experiences Professional networks and accomplishments Major Characteristics Theory identification and elements Theory Usefulness

Part 11-Discussion of theoretical concepts Major Characteristics Concepts/Assumptions

Relationship of Concepts/theory Nursing Paradigms/Other theories

Part111- Application of nursing theory and concepts

Potential for Practice Education/Leadership Conclusion Application of examples in research

Nursing converged from the humble beginnings of benevolent caring venture for the ill and ailing towards a scientific endeavor in the twenty-first century. It has undergone immense changes emerging out of intuitive interventions towards evidence-based practices articulated by ...

Literature Review: Meta- paradigms in Nursing

Description of alignment of personal theory with worldview

Analysis of personal utilization of nurses' ways of knowing

Literature Review: Meta-paradigms in nursing Introduction This literature review embraces the metaparadigm nursing theoretical perspective and how it relates to ways of knowing in the profession. A critical review aligning personal conceptualizations with a world view interpretation will be explored. Also, an explanation of my personal ideological premise regarding the efficacy of this theoretical perspective to contemporary nursing practice will be analyzed. The theoretical premise of this literature review hinges on the assumption that meta-paradigm is an inclusive perspective of a ...

The nursing process

The nursing process may be defined the analysis of the sequence of events that surround a client’s, patient, needs and problems and which constantly change at different rates. It is necessary for a nurse to note change on a continuous basis so as to determine if the original problem has changed. The process is centred on the client based on their needs. Different clients have different problems and ,therefore, a nurse should be able to make a proper judgment and take appropriate actions for different clients in the most accurate way possible. The nursing process is a tool that aids a nursing student to systematically ...

Part -1: Discuss responsibilities of the nurse, related to health promotion, risk factors and disease management.

(a) How does the nurse use nursing process to plan care in promoting health, risk reduction and disease management? (b) Explain the benefits of using evidence- based practice in planning care. (c) Discuss strategies for including evidence -based practice in planning care.

Part- 11: Choose a disease and compare the evidence based pathophysiology; diagnosis and treatment applied to two different age groups.

(a) Explain the pathophysiology and etiology of the disease, including impact of age. (b) Examine the impact of age on risk factors. (c) Differentiate between the diagnostic processes for the two age groups. (d) Compare treatment of the disease based on age, using scientific evidence based information. (e) Explain how the nurse uses evidence-base information ...

Abstract

Incredible advancements in nursing service intervention have forged immense reformation of techniques in treating numerous diseases. The overall aim is to improve outcomes and promote efficient nursing care. As such, the American Nurse Credential Center (2008) has developed a model which provides the framework for future nursing practice. Also, it is expected to serve as a guideline for organizations wishing to achieve recognition in the Magnet Hospital program (American Nurse Credential Center, 2008). This exposition encompassing a literature review is a sample of both the components of this model as well as forces linked to its execution process within the context of magnetism ( ...

Introduction

Nursing as a profession is unfortunately among those careers whose roles and functions in society have been significantly misconceived; the nursing uniform is often seen to symbolize caring. Majority of people are only familiar with the caring aspect of nursing, however, they cannot be faulted since this image of nursing was created by the pioneers of nursing like Florence Nightingale who embodied the caring attribute in their definitions of nursing. Further, it continues to be reinforced by current nursing icons like Jean Watson who, through various theories conceptualize caring as the central tenet or the core theme of nursing. Others ...

Employability skills

Of the eight employability skills identified by the Common Wealth of Australia (2002 cited in Training.com.au, 2011) communication, technology, planning and organizational skills are considered the most important employability skills in nursing by employers. Nurses with effective communication skills are able to establish and maintain effective therapeutic relationships, to convey caring, authenticity and empathy to the patient; in addition they are able to improve the safety of the patient. Nurses lacking in communication skills on the other hand create tensions in their interactions with others, are unable to effectively convey caring and authenticity to the patient. Moreover, they ...

Introduction

As a nursing student with deep career aspirations, I made three goals. I made personal, practice and scholarly goals. The motivation for each was different but the ultimate goal was to learn early the basics of nursing that will serve me over the whole length of my career.

Personal goal: rationale and motivation behind it

A certain types of medical terminology are used in clinical settings. There are the medication or drugs names, diseases & disease process, part of the body, medical treatments and symptoms and so on(Susan, William, & Rima, 2009). My study plan focused on disease & disease process, parts of the body and ...