Humanistic Nursing Theory PDF

Company Performance from April to June 2025 HUMANISTIC NURSING THEORY Josephine G. Paterson Loretta T. Zderad Prepared by Marie Josephine J. Serra, RN, MAN Paterson Nursing education should be founded in experience. & Zderad Nurse's training - focus : nurse's...

Company Performance from April to June 2025 HUMANISTIC NURSING THEORY Josephine G. Paterson Loretta T. Zderad Prepared by Marie Josephine J. Serra, RN, MAN Paterson Nursing education should be founded in experience. & Zderad Nurse's training - focus : nurse's ability to relate to and interact with patients as a scientific and medical background. Underlying Principles HUMANISM Attempts to take a broader perspective of the individual's potential and tries to understand each individual from the context of their own personal experiences. EXISTENTIALISM Is a philosophical approach to understanding life. It's the belief that thinking begins with the human - the feeling, acting, living individual. It emphasizes the individual's free- choice, self-determination and self- responsibility. Underlying Principles NURSING DIALOGUE Is when a nurse and patient come together. The nurse presents themselves as a helper ready to assist the patient. The nurse is open to understanding how the patient feels with the intention of improvement. Openness is an essential quality for humanistic nursing dialogue.  HUMANISTIC NURSING: ITS MEANING “Humanistic nursing embraces more Nursing is viewed as an authentic than benevolent technically dialogue involving meeting, relating, competent subject-object one-way and presencing in a world of people, relationship guided by a nurse in things, time, and space. behalf of another.” Humanistic Nursing Theory is multidimensional. the components identified as humans are the patient (an refer to the person, family, or community) and the nurse person who sends call for help is the patient person who recognizes and responds to the call is the nurse Major Concepts  Nurses have made a decision and dedicated themselves to helping others with their healthcare needs. Humanistic nursing theory accepts the Humanistic nursing term exists known likeness in our differences but attempts to as “all-at-once.” identify the sameness in each other or our unifying links that make up the soul or essence Nurses and patients have their own of nursing. ‘gestalts', or concept of wholeness. Nurse bring their whole self when helping in patient treatment Experience and education  Humanistic Nursing Theory revolves around everyone being their own unique person and how the nurse should understand that. No person or experience is the same. This should be respected and reflected in the General care provided to the patient. Assumptions Here, nursing care should be a and striving towards wholeness. While the patient and the nurse may have different concepts of wholeness (a.k.a. “gestalts”), it is also important to note the similarities and use them to provide proper nursing care.  PERSON is perceived as an individual and each situation as unique. Humans are viewed as open energy fields with special life experiences. As energy fields, they are greater than and different from the sum of their parts and cannot be predicted from knowledge of their parts. Metaparadigm Human beings, are viewed as being holistic in nature, are special, dynamic, aware, and multidimensional, capable of abstract thought, creativity, capable of taking responsibility. Language, empathy, caring, and other abstract patterns of communication are aspects of an individually high level of complexity and diversity and enable one to increase knowledge of self and environment. Persons are to be valued, to be respected, nurtured, and understood with the right to make informed choices regarding their health, may include families and communities.  HEALTH Paterson and Zderad do not see health as the absence of disease or an attainable goal. Instead, they describe it as a resource that a patient can use to help realize his or her own potential "Health" is valued as necessary for survival and is often proposed as the goal for nursing. Metaparadigm Nursing's concern is said to be 'not merely with a person's wellbeing but within his morebeing; with helping him become more as humanly possible in his particular life situation Wellbeing and Morebeing, that health is conceptualized as somewhat more than the freedom from disease.  ENVIRONMENT The environment is seen as the time and space where the events are happening, and where nursing experience takes place. Environment represents the place where the service is delivered, the "community of the world." Place is another component of space, but it is more Metaparadigm personalized; it belongs to the patient or nurse and is highly subjective.  NURSING Paterson and Zderad define nursing as a "lived experience between human beings." It is an evolving, affecting, and helping relationship in which the patient and the nurse engage in dialogue. They emphasize the importance of the nurse being aware of herself and of the client as unique human beings, and Metaparadigm of understanding the individual perspective, identity, experiences, condition, and needs of each patient.  Five Phases of the Nursing Process 1. Preparation of the Nurse 2. Nurse Knowing of the Other 3. Nurse Knowing the Other Knower for Coming to Intuitively Scientifically Know In this stage, the nurse acts as an In this stage the nurse tries to The nurse as the observer must investigator who willingly takes risks understand the other, as in the "I-thou" observe and analyze from the outside. and has an open mind. The nurse must relationship, where the nurse as the "I" At this stage, the nurse goes from be a risk-taker and be willing to does not superimpose themselves on intuition to analysis. Analysis is the experience anything. "Accepting the the "thou" of the patient. sorting, comparing, contrasting, decision to approach the unknown relating, interpreting and categorizing. openly".  Five Phases of the Nursing Process 4. Nurse Complementarily 5. Succession within the Synthesizing Known Others Nurse from the Many to the Paradoxical One The ability of the nurse to develop or n this stage the nurse takes the see themselves as a source of information gleaned and applies it in knowledge, to continually develop the the practical clinical setting. Here the nursing community through education, nurse takes brings the dilemma and increased understanding of their towards resolution. owned learned experiences. “Humanistic nursing embraces more than a benevolent technically competent subject-object one-way relationship guided by a nurse in behalf of another. Rather it dictates that nursing is a responsible searching, a transactional relationship whose meaningfulness demands conceptualization founded on a nurse's existential awareness of self and of the other” - P&Z "Uniqueness is a universal capacity of the human species. So, "all-at- once," while each man is unique; paradoxically, he is also like his fellows. His very uniqueness is a characteristic of his commonality with all other men." - P&Z Thank you!