The Complex Nature Of The Nursing Profession

Everyone wants a sustainable well-functioning health system (Marshall, 2011 qdt Porter-O’Grady, 2016 et al p 325). When nursing and other healthcare managers (nurse leaders) focus on increasing connections, diversity, and interactions they increase information flow and promote creative adaptation referred to as self-organization. Complexity science builds on the rich tradition in nursing that views patients and nursing care from a systems perspective (Porter-O’Grady, 2016 et al p 324 and Holden

The term environment, as it relates to the metaparadigm perspective, is a multilayered view that can explain the understanding of an individual’s perspective (McEwen & Willis, 2011). More specifically, some may believe the environment related to the nursing profession encompasses any setting in which a therapeutic interaction can occur; that is, a hospital, clinic, nursing home, school, corporation, or home (Tourville & Ingalls, 2003). According to McEwen and Willis (2011), however, this perceived way of identifying the environment only limits its domain by making it fixed, uncompromising, and natural. Although the specific setting in which care disperses is vital to understand the nursing discipline, it is not the only factor influencing the phenomena. Internal and external circumstances are a part of one’s environment, and both play a vital role in identifying and altering one’s perspective and philosophy related to the nursing discipline (McEwen & Willis, 2011). Individuals, such as family members, significant others, and lifelong friends that one interacts with also influence

Changes in the Health Care System and the Practice of Nursing have become complex. Technological changes, complicated client needs, short hospital length of stay, and departure from acute care to community based care, all these changes have underscore the need for professional nurses to think critically in order to provide safe and effective client care. A better educated nursing workforce can provide good health education to patients and their families. The affordable care of 2010 has required the need for nurses to expand their role of practice to meet complicated patient demands. This has prompted the Institute Of Medicine to review the “Future of Nursing, Leading change and Advancing Health”. {Creasia & Fribery,2011}

Nursing theory is the backbone of nursing. It is very important in the application of evidence-based practice (EBP). The functions of a theory are to narrow and provide specific information for the analysis of initially confusing behaviors, situations, and events (Fawcett & Madeya 2013). Moreover, nursing theory helps to improve not only the quality of care that we are providing to our patients but, they also help us make better clinical decisions. As a matter of fact, nursing theory gives the nurse a framework for organizing and analyzing information as well as a base for identifying with their patients throughout the nurse-patient relationship (Schick, 2015). I am very much interested in all the theories. The one that I relate to the most is Hildegard Peplau’s theory. It is a middle range theory that focuses on interpersonal relations. This theory teaches us about how to interact with our patients so that they feel more in control of their treatment. In this paper, I will be talking about the importance of nursing, the summary of Peplau's theory, and how as future nurse practitioners, we can apply it.

In a world where there is constant change, and individuals are constantly attempting to adapt and cope with these changes, the human experiences and responses to this process is central to nursing interest, (Meleis, 2012). Today’s global health problems in addition to the politically volatile health care system, and the rising cost of health care seem insurmountable. As nurses,

The purpose of this assignment is to critically appraise a selected research paper following a data extraction relevant to the field of nursing. Critical appraisal is the process of evaluating the strengths and weakness of research, to find out if it is valid, reliable and applicable (Moule and Goodman, 2009). The following article to be critiqued is “A Nutritional Formula Enriched with Arginine, Zinc, and Antioxidants for the Healing of Pressure Ulcers” by Cereda et al. (2015).

I define my philosophy of nursing within the three nursing domains of person, health, and environment. My goal is to communicate the importance of nursing as a knowledge-based career, depending not only on the nurse fulfilling her role but also on the patient’s compliance. A patient must learn to provide self-care at home in the same capacity as the nurse would provide care in the clinical setting. I discuss various subjects within nursing. I explain why I want to be a nurse, what I believe a nurse’s role is, the different domains of nursing, and where I believe nursing will be in the future. My philosophy demonstrates the interdependence of the nursing domains. You cannot fully evaluate a person without evaluating their health,

Nursing theories serve as thinking guides for nurses to follow in order to reach optimal outcomes for patients. Theories are applied in conjunction with experience one has gained and critical thinking in everyday nursing practice, research, and education. The Neuman Systems Model, which was created by Betty Neuman, is one example of a theory that has been in practice for decades and continues to be modified to reflect new research. When applying the NSM, the nurse focuses on identifying and preventing stressors which are factors that lead to fluctuations in the body that affect daily living.

Looking at Hester’s time spend alone in Boston, we can assume that she acted upon her deepest most-inner longing for passion and sexual desire for another human being; it could be possible that Hester was tempted into the bed of another man, but readers are not given that information. We can look at this act as lust, the first of the deadly sins. Hester lives her life in the puritan religion of simplicity and purification of the human

Throughout history, society has considered women to be the natural caregivers of children, family, and community. Women were naturally thought of as nurses because the act was said to be an extension of their role in the home. They were called in to homes to help deliver babies or as wet nurses to breastfeed. In the 1800’s, women began taking care of soldiers. It was then that Florence Nightingale cared for soldiers in the Crimean War. During this time she revolutionized the role by setting standards of cleanliness and reducing infection. The legacy of nursing continues to be enriched by those who continue to follow the example of nursing pioneers. They refuse to be bound by others’ views

Modern nursing is a rewarding, but challenging, career choice. The modern nurse's role is not limited only to assist the doctor in procedures, however. Instead, the contemporary nursing professional takes on a partnership role with both the doctor and patient as advocate caregiver, teacher, researcher, counselor, and case manager. The caregiver role includes those activities that assist the client physically, mentally, and emotionally, while still preserving the client's dignity. In order for a nurse to be an effective caregiver, the patient must be treated in a holistic manner. Within the subject of nursing, there are often times in which different aspects of the practice must be analyzed by using primary research from other scholars. Nursing scholarship is vital to the profession, as we have seen, in order for the modern nurse to remain current with scholarship and practice. At the very core of this paradigm, though, is the manner in which the blend of art and science in nursing will be expressed to others, to the next generation, and through pedagogical theory (Alligood & Tomey, 2002). To do this, however, requires a new approach to the paradigm of nursing leadership strategic thinking, planning and action and above all appropriate integration of a more holistic and multidisciplinary approach to professional nursing.

Also, the environment represents the interpersonal distance between the two people. For those who are having a blind date, it is neither proper for them to stay closely like the official couples, nor to keep long distance like acquaintances. Sense of awkwardness can also appear when the two stay too close to each other at the first date. According to Expectancy Violations Theory by Judee Burgoon, a communication scholar at the University of Arizona, personal space is invisible and variable that defines people’s preferred distance from the others (Griffin, Ledbetter, Sparks, 2015). Edward Hall, an anthropologist at Illinois Institute of Technology attached great significance to respecting others’ personal space and adjusting nonverbal behavior

In brief, a person is a multifaceted unit, infinitely reacting and re-patterning its behavior to adapt to its environment. Health is an inward and outward expression of the conscious and unconscious patterns we exert. Our patterns determine where we fall on the spectrum. My vision for myself as a nurse is aiding in pattern reorganization.

Ongoing development and changes in healthcare delivery enable nurses to maintain standards of nursing and develop their competence and performance. Through this the patients well-being is maintained, respecting them through accessing up to date knowledge and skills that are essential in an ever changing environment.

American Nurses Association defines nursing as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and population”( Potter,P.,& Perry, A. 2005,1-5). Thus making nursing dynamic and ever changing. However, when nursing