Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication Paper Jen Shanahan HCS/350 June 30‚ 2014 Professor David Catoe Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication Paper The way in which we communicate impacts all areas of our lives. It impacts our relationships with our family members‚ loved ones‚ doctors or peers every day. To communication in an online team meeting‚ or having a discussion to your instructors‚ communication is how we collect and process information and express ourselves
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assist those around you to deliver the best care they can. Theorist Correlation The above theory rests on an assumption closely related to that of Hildegard Peplau‚ where she states “people need relationships with other persons. At their best‚ relationships confirm self-worth‚ provide a sense of connectedness with others‚ and support self-esteem” (Peplau‚
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Description Today I was placed in the female surgical ward‚ I was assigned to an eighty-five-year-old woman who was diagnosed with hypertension and acute abdomen R/O large obstruction secondary malignancy. Surprisingly‚ she was not on any medications‚ therefore‚ my plan for the patient was to obtain vital signs‚ empty urinary bag‚ perform physical assessment but focus mainly on the abdominal area‚ comfort her and document. Feelings Prior to meeting the patient‚ when my preceptor was assigning
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the heart is unable to pump blood throughout the body which leads her to be diagnosed with venous insufficient hence‚ she have poor circulation in her feet and that’s the reason for her feet being discolored. To conclude‚ I incorporated Hildegard Peplau nursing theory when I was caring for my patient by building an interpersonal relationship with her and educating her why it is necessary for her to take her medications. If this situation arose again‚ I will continue to treat my patient with
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Development of Nursing Timeline Since the beginning of the Nursing profession‚ many theorists have presented multiple theories. Nursing theorists have used many definitions to develop and support their work. Their views of nursing theory are based upon their spiritual‚ personal‚ educational‚ political‚ and socioeconomic experiences. Credited with the first nursing theorist‚ Florence Nightingale believed in well-educated nurses practicing independently. According to Schulyer‚ 1992 “In the 1800’s
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1. What are middle-range theories? Why are they considered to be useful in conducting nursing research? Give at least three examples of middle-range theories; discuss what these theories are all about and how these theories are useful in nursing practice and research. Middle-range theory is a presence of related concepts that are fixed on a limited scope of the reality of nursing. These theories are made up of ideas and recommended connection among the ideas that can be related in a model.
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care and to help create a base of knowledge so that nursing would be recognized as a profession. There have been many theorists who have played an integral part in the growth of the profession of nursing‚ which include‚ Florence Nightingale‚ Hildegard Peplau‚ Virginia Henderson‚ Dorothea Orem‚ and Jean Watson
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Professional Nursing Jeanean Boyd‚MSN‚RN March 12‚ 2012 Online RN-BSN Introduction In this paper I will explain why I believe strongly in my personal philosophy of nursing. As I learn more about nursing philosophers such as: Dorthea Orem‚ Hildegard Peplau‚ Faye Glenn Abdellah‚ and Joyce Travelbee I see a common thread amongst them. I see that they have incorporated their experiences and beliefs to formulate a theory that improves or betters the lives of the patient‚ family‚ community‚ and society
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An interpersonal relationship is an association between two or more people that may range from fleeting to enduring. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship). Seemingly to Hildegard Peplau‚ nursing is an interpersonal process because it involves interaction between two or more individuals with a common goal. Peplau‚ emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation of nursing practice. A therapeutic nurse-patient relationship is defined as a helping relationship that ’s based
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outcomes. This theory is focused on the creation of shared and mutual experience among heath care professionals and patient through interpersonal process to attain desired mutual goals and objectives. Emphasis of this theory is expansion and growth of Hildegard Peplau’s Interpersonal Theory through integrating new roles and functions of other health care professionals in understanding individual behaviors‚ values‚ beliefs‚ culture‚ past experiences and expectations for the purpose of becoming knowledgeable
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