Sean Whitfield - NURS 1000 - Active Learning Guide - Module 10 - Backgrounds in Nursing - Nursing Theory - Complete.pdf

NURS 1000 - Introduction to Nursing Nursing Theory Nursing Theory Module 10: Backgrounds in Nursing Active Learning Guide Chapter 5 1. What is a theory? The compilation of data that define, describe, and logically relate information that will explain past nursing phenomena and predict future trends....

NURS 1000 - Introduction to Nursing Nursing Theory Nursing Theory Module 10: Backgrounds in Nursing Active Learning Guide Chapter 5 1. What is a theory? The compilation of data that define, describe, and logically relate information that will explain past nursing phenomena and predict future trends. Theories provide a foundation for developing models or frameworks for nursing practice development. 2. What four concepts are included in ALL nursing theories, even if they are defined differently by different nursing theorists? Four concepts basic to nursing that are included in these models are: (1) nursing, (2) person, (3) health, and (4) environment. 3. Who is generally credited as the first nursing theorist? If theory means to put concepts in a form in which relationships are described and predictions are made, then Florence Nightingale was the first nursing theorist. Nightingale did not deliberately set out to develop theory, rather her goal was to ease the suffering of soldiers and citizens of England. However, many important influences in her life directed her toward theory development: A classical education (philosophy [science], French, Italian, Greek, Latin, the arts, and history) Upper-class background, great wealth, and a prominent social life (operas, parties, balls) Religion and spirituality (spent much time daydreaming about how she could serve God and experienced four visions from God) Era of reform throughout England (Industrial Revolution and great divisions among the classes) 4. Which nursing theory do you see as relevant to the care described in the New York Time’s article about the care of dying patients? Florence Nightingale’s, Environmental Nursing Theory. What are the connections you made between the article and the theory to which you related it? Florence Nightingale investigated the effect of the environment on healing. The flailing patient with tongue cancer was soothed by the view of the garden with the double doors wide open. Terminal breast cancer patient experiencing anxieity due to palliative chemotherapy was not longer an option to contain the disease. The patient found relief in the song of a black bird that she heard through an open window. The song was calming and relived her fear of being lost and forgotten. Nature helped her put in perspective that even a cancer diagnosis NURS 1000 - Introduction to Nursing Nursing Theory is part of nature. The song of the black bird inspired her to record her own song. This song was a creative way to satisfy her effort for self-preservation. 5. Name the author of the following nursing theories and provide a brief description of the nursing theory to complete the table below: Nursing Theory Author The Environmental Nursing Theory Florence Nightingale Adaptation Model Sister Callisto Roy in 1976. Interpersonal Relationship as a Nursing Process Hildegard E. Peplau, 1952 Brief description/Theories Emphasis The Environment Theory of nursing is a patient-care theory. That is, it focuses on the care of the patient rather than the nursing process, the relationship between patient and nurse, or the individual nurse. The Adaptation Model of Nursing was developed by Sister Callista Roy in 1976. After working with Dorothy E. Johnson, Roy became convinced of the importance of describing the nature of nursing as a service to society. This prompted her to begin developing her model with the goal of nursing being to promote adaptation. Interpersonal relations model explores the interpe Theory of Human Caring Jean Watson (1978 Transpersonal Caring as the Fulcrum; Philosophy