NUR-016-Module-19 Nursing Theories PDF

# Theoretical Foundations in Nursing ## Module #19 Student Activity Sheet ### Cecilia Laurenté's Theory of Nursing Practice and Career Synchronicity in Human-Space-Time: A Theory of Nursing Engagement in Global Community #### Life Story - Graduated BSN at UP in 1967 & MAN in 1973. - Worked as a s...

# Theoretical Foundations in Nursing ## Module #19 Student Activity Sheet ### Cecilia Laurenté's Theory of Nursing Practice and Career Synchronicity in Human-Space-Time: A Theory of Nursing Engagement in Global Community #### Life Story - Graduated BSN at UP in 1967 & MAN in 1973. - Worked as a staff nurse (1968-1969), became a head nurse (1973-1976), and Nursing Supervisor at Philippine General Hospital (1977-1979). - Focused her work on helping a patient through support systems specifically the family. - Became a dean of the College of Nursing in UP Manila from 1996-2002. #### Theory Description - Publication entitled, *"Categorization of Nursing activities as Observed in Medical Surgical Ward Unit in Selected Government and Private Hospitals in Metro Manila"*, which was conducted from January to June year 1987. - States that the other entry point of helping the patient is through the family, when nurses can be of great assistance to prevent at the very beginning serious complications. #### Basic Assumption and Concept of the Model - The nurse can help strengthen the family's term of knowledge, skills, and attitude through effective communication, employed informative, psychotherapeutic, modeling, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and/or hypnotic techniques are summarized and evaluated. - Anxiety is a mental state of fear or nervousness about what might happen. #### Nurses Caring Behavior that Affect the Patient Anxiety - Presence - person to person contact between the client and the nurses. - Concern - development in the time through mutual trust, nurse and the patient. - Stimulation - nurse stimulation through words tops the powerful resources of energy of a person for healing. #### Enhancing Factors - One's caring experience, beliefs and attitude. - Feeling good about - Learning at school - What patients tell about the nurse coping mechanism to problems encountered. - Communication #### Predisposing Factors - Age - Sex - Civil Status - Educational Background - Length of work - Experience ## Carmencita M. Abaquin's Prepare Me Holistic Nursing Interventions #### Life Story - Nurse with a Master's Degree in Nursing obtained from the University of the Philippines, College of Nursing. - Expert in Medical Surgical Nursing with subspecialty in Oncologic Nursing, which made her known both here and abroad. - Served the University of the Philippines College of Nursing, as faculty and held the position as Secretary of the College of Nursing. - Latest appointment as Chairman of the Board of Nursing speaks of her competence and integrity in the field she has chosen. #### Basic Assumptions and Concepts of the Model - Theory is centered on the nursing interventions provided to address the multidimensional problems of cancer patients that can be given in any setting where patients choose to be confined. - PREPARE ME (Holistic Nursing Interventions) are the nursing interventions provided to address the multi-dimensional problems of cancer patients that can be given in any setting where patients choose to be confined. - This program emphasizes a holistic approach to nursing care. PREPARE ME has the following components: | Component | Description | |---|---| | Presence | Being with another person during the times of need. This includes therapeutic communication, active listening, and touch. | | Prayer | Recall of past experiences, feelings and thoughts to facilitate adaptation to present circumstances. | | Reminisce Therapy | Techniques to encourage and elicit relaxation for the purpose of decreasing undesirable signs and symptoms such as pain, muscle tension, and anxiety. | | Relaxation-Breathing | Encourages an elicit form of relaxation for the purpose of altering a patient's level of awareness by focusing on an image or thought to facilitate inner sight which helps establish connection and relationship with God. It may be done through the use of music and other relaxation techniques. | | Meditation | Assisting another individual to clarify his own values about health and illness in order to facilitate effective decision making skills. Through this, the patient develops an open mind that will facilitate acceptance of disease state or may help deepen or enhance values. The process of values clarification helps one become internally consistent by achieving closer between what we do and what we feel. | | Values Clarification | |