Using Insights to Choose Theory-Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory Choosing a nursing theory that resonates and embodies my personal values‚ beliefs and nursing practice is imperative to the advancement of my nursing practice and lifelong development. Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory is a middle-range theory that has been my personal favorite since learning about her almost five years ago as I embarked on a new collaborative journey when opening a new hospital from the ground up in my own community
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This may imply that evidence-based practice is still being relegated to the background in favor of what has always been the routine in nursing practice. The nurse preceptor may also lack enthusiasm‚ lack knowledge or may not have the time due to heavy workload to focus on evidence-based practice or to check out search engines like Ebscohost‚ CINAHL‚ ERIC‚ or PubMed for peer-reviewed journals
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Philosophy has an influence on nursing knowledge development because much of nursing began with a philosophical base. Philosophy is knowledge and nursing develops theories from knowledge which are based on people and their environment. McCurry et al. (2006) quotes‚ ’By using nursing models and theories congruent with our philosophical perspectives‚ nursing knowledge is advanced and practicing nurses become empowered through their ability to use knowledge to transform perspectives‚ organize
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Beck’s Theory of postpartum depression Theory is an attempt to explain the world around us. It is defined as a set of concepts‚ definitions‚ and propositions that projects a view of phenomena by designating specific interrelationships among concepts for purposes of describing‚ explaining and predicting phenomena. In the world of healthcare the nurse through the understanding of theories attempt to explain why nurses do what they do. Nursing theories are the creative products of nurses who seek to
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Final Paper in Comfort Theory Ruben Perez NGR 5110 July 15th‚ 2013. Prof. Dr. Daniel Little Nursing Scenario I chose this scenario which is appropriate for the application of Kolcaba’s Comfort theory: You are a nurse on an inpatient oncology unit. Your patient is a 72-year-old competent male who has been told his cancer is terminal and that further treatment is unlikely to have any benefit. He accepts that and would like to explore hospice. However‚ his two adult children insist that he
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Related to the Theory of Comfort Introduction Practicing as a nurse‚ I realize I follow my own metaparadigm of nursing. In this paper‚ I relate my own personal beliefs with that of a popular nursing theorist. Though my research on theory is just beginning‚ I feel my metaparadigm most relates to that of Katharine Kolcaba and her theory of comfort. I will seek to illustrate my philosophy with the knowledge and nursing experience I have. Origin of Theory The idea of comfort and theory started to
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Contrast and Comparison of Nursing Grand Theorists Carol Goetz Maryville University The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast nursing theorists from the four categories which are identified by Meleis as: Needs‚ Interaction‚ Outcome and Caring. (Meleis‚ 2012‚ Chapter 9) I have chosen Faye Abdellah‚ Imogene King‚ Myra Levine and Jean Watson as the grand theorists that I would like to explore for this study in contrast and comparison. This decision was made‚ in part‚ due to the
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Watson’s Theory Watson’s Theory of Human Caring Barbara Eisenach University of Phoenix MSAO1JX19/NUR-403 Marilyn Moorhouse‚ RN‚ MSN November 28‚ 2011 Watson’s Theory of Human Caring This paper will explore Jean Watson’s theory of transpersonal human caring as well as a description of the major concepts of Watson’s theory. I will apply Watson’s theory to two nurse/ patient relationships and describe the caring moments that occurred. I will discuss Watson’s major assumptions and relate this
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overview of Dr. Jean Watson ’s caring theory to the nursing community. Facilitate the understanding of her work allowing nurses to readily apply this knowledge within their practice. Objectives Describe the general aspects of Watson ’s caring theory. Describe how Watson ’s caring theory can be applied to clinical practice. Describe the person through Watson ’s caring lens. Describe the person ’s health through Watson ’s caring lens. Describe nursing through Watson ’s caring lens.
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Gilligan Whelan‚ RNC‚ MA‚ MSN ABSTRACT Curriculum design in nursing education has become an increasingly sophisticated process throughout the past decade. "Theories" of nursing have emerged‚ and have become the basis for various curricula models. One model which is relevant to nursing education‚ practice and research‚ is that of Dorothea Orem. Nurse educators are constantly bombarded with material regardmg various nursing "theories." Each nurse educator would benefit by having some familiarity
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