Nurses and other health care providers should create an environment that is conducive to the restoration and promotion of healing. All patients deserve an environment that is safe and promotes both physical and emotional healing. In order to provide the best care, nurses should become familiar with the different cultures and backgrounds in their community. By becoming more knowledgeable about their environment and community, nurses can be more personable and respectful to their patients.…
2. Environment- All external and internal aspects of the life that influences a person. With good assessment skills nurse will find out internal and external circumstances and influences affecting the person. 3. Health- The holistic level of wellness that the person experiences. To get to know the degree of wellness a nurse has to assess, evaluate and reassess the patient receiving care.…
The 4 metaparadigms of nursing are person, environment, health/illness, and nursing. All 4 are interrelated and describe the central interest of the nursing discipline (Gunther, 2011). The ANA addresses the 4 concepts in its definition of nursing.…
Following giant theorists in philosophy in nursing, I organize my perceptions and understanding in according with the four metaparadigm concepts of nursing. In common senses, every person is an existing entity in the universe. Therefore, environment of an entity is the universe without the entity. And health is a conditional state that defines the enduring and developing of an entity. A person as a whole is composed of properly functioning physical body, mental clarity, emotional harmony, and enlightened spirit. Healthy persons have their components proportionally operating in a synchronized fashion and in harmony with the environment. Unhealthy persons find themselves in deficiency of the components or in inappropriate for the surrounding.…
The metaparadigm is the large-scale view of nursing that encompasses all of the vital components of the nursing practice including person, environment, health and nursing practice. Each of these components are variables that must be considered and integrated to produce sound theory used in the development and delivery of nursing care. Nursing theory helps to identify and define the persons we care for and to design and develop the environment we use to care for them. Nursing theory demarcates the concept of health and what the perception of health is within the wellness and illness continuum and it prescribes the direction of nursing practice in that it is the collection of knowledge that establishes how practice is…
In the CSUSM College of Education, Health and Human Services School of Nursing handbook, the School of Nursing Philosophy breaks down into four categories: Person, Environment, Health, and Nursing. The category Philosophy of Person states that our focus is on the receiver of care whether it is an individual or aggregate, such as a family or a community (p. 5). The category of Philosophy of Environment says that a person or aggregate is unique and complete with distinct characteristics that are influenced by their environment, circumstances, and health decisions (p. 5). The category Philosophy of Health says that they are entitled to make their own health decisions or, in the case of debilitation, have an executor make those decisions for them…
McEwen, M., & Willis, E.M. (2011). Theoretical basis for nursing (4th ed.) Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.…
designed to guide the practice of nursing” (Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing, 2012). Nursing theories can help patients, managers and other healthcare professionals to recognize what and how much that nurses do contribute to the healthcare field. I never did realize how important theories in nursing practice could be until I became a nursing student myself. Nurses use theories in their everyday practice, but never think about them as being responsible for guiding our clinical skills. However, in the student’s eye, it is very easy to see how important theories are in practice. The concepts of Florence Nightingale’s Environment theory will be discussed in relation to how it impacts the nursing profession and patient care. The key concepts of Nightingale’s theory and their relationships with one another will be summarized as well as its relationship to nursing education.…
Metaparadigm theories of nursing consists of theories that describe the four interrelated concepts, which are persons, environment, health and illness, and nursing. Persons are the recipients of nursing care and include individuals, families, and communities. Environment refers to the surroundings of the client, internal factors affecting the client, and the setting where nursing care is delivered. Health and illness describe the client's state of well-being. Nursing refers to the actions taken when providing care to a patient.…
This model is related to the lifespan of the individual, identifying twelve activities of living: maintain a safe environment, communication, breathing, eating and drinking, elimination, washing and dressing, controlling temperature, mobilization, working and playing and sleeping. Each of it is influenced by five identified factors, which are biological, psychological, socio-culture, environment and politico economic This model is used in conjunction with the nursing process to identify actual potential problems for the individual and how nursing care can advance the patient along the dependence to independence continuum. ( 1. 2011. ).…
For the purpose of study in nursing, biological, psychological, spiritual, intellectual and sociocultural dimensions of human beings and stages of human development are delineated as they affect behavior and health. These dimensions operate within and upon the human being in an open, interrelated, interdependent, and interactive way. The nursing client is an open system, continually changing in mutual process with the changing environment. Recipients of nursing actions may be well or ill and include individuals, families and…
First, I will describe what person, environment, health, and nursing mean. A person is a human being, and the recipient of care. The environment is the surroundings that influences us, and involves animate objects and inanimate objects. Health is the condition in which all functions of the mind and body are normally active; which includes the clients' wellness and illness issues. Nursing is the caring and nurturing of healthy and ill clients, and are the actions of the nurse while caring for the client. These are used in my everyday practice, and allow for me to support and promote adequate holistic client care.…
The four elements of Nursing Theory are man, environment, health and nursing; the most important of these is man. I believe that man is a complex being, and like the fingerprint, no two are alike. Although some can be placed into subgroups based on things like sex, ethnicity, age, culture or religion; no two patients can be cared for in exactly the same manner and produce the exact same results. There are other factors to consider; which brings me to environment.…
The American Nurse’s Association’s Nursing’s Social Policy Statement (2003) 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” (p. 6). Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary (2012) defines philosophy as “the most basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group.” It follows then that a philosophy of nursing is the set of beliefs, concepts and attitudes that guides the promotion, protection, and restoration of health and abilities of individuals and groups of individuals. Traditionally, nursing philosophy is described using a meta-paradigm of four concepts – human being or person, environment, health, and nursing. Beliefs and attitudes about these guiding concepts are widely shared, but also deeply influenced by the personal experiences and values of the individual nurse.…
My Personal Philosophy of Nursing Prior understanding the metaparadigm of nursing, my philosophy of nursing was merely based on nursing is a profession that aid the process of getting patients better. As Kearney-Nunnery stated, "The metaparadigm is the overall concern of nursing common to each nursing model, whether a conceptual model/paradigm or formal theory" (Kearney-Nunnery, 2016, pp.3). This paper will serve as an explanation of my personal nursing philosophy based on the four concepts of metaparadigm of nursing, which are human beings, environment, health and nursing. Each concept of metaparadigm of nursing composed of its own assumption, belief, and value.…