Leadership Styles and Theories Effective leadership is comprised of multiple principles‚ characteristics‚ and techniques (Huber‚ 2014). There are many roles that go into making a great leader or nurse manager. Along with the roles and responsibilities of being a great leader comes knowing how to manage your facility and what management style works best for you and your nursing staff. For this discussion‚ the topic will be on personal leadership styles‚ leader and management theory‚ and key behaviors
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1.2 Theories in nursing Theory is a blue print which provides frame work for all nursing actions‚ without theory one would not build argument on the actions performed. There are many theories that applies and guide nursing actions eg ethical theory‚ management theory organization theory and so on. The objective of theories are not limited to: provide a systematic answer to the question of how we should perform our work in different settings. •Many health care agencies now recognize the need for
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Select two grand nursing theories and discuss how each theorist addresses the metaparadigm for nursing. Discuss briefly the similarities and differences of the two. The nursing metaparadigm consists of the concepts person‚ heath‚ nursing‚ and environment. The purpose of a metaparadigm is to “summarize the intellectual and social missions of the discipline and place boundaries on the subject matter of that discipline” (McEwen & Wills‚ 2014‚ p.41). It is essentially a domain that explains the
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is stressed and wants to quit nursing. The question is Jane stressed because of nursing or is there other factors of stress that causing her to want to quit nursing? These two points differ vastly. One being that she cannot cope with the transition of academic to practical and thus feels that she cannot continue and the other would mean that Jane is facing other problems that is making her have difficulties in her PRCP which somehow leads her to want to quit nursing as a result. Baring it in mind
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Nurses use theory to help guide them in their nursing practice. Paradigms are the way we look at knowledge in a discipline such as nursing (McEwen & Wills‚ 2014). They take into account different values. Grand nursing theories utilize three paradigms: human needs‚ interactive and unitary process. These paradigms take into account the nature of human beings and how they do‚ or do not‚ interact with their environment and health care providers. The human needs paradigm evaluates basic human needs
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Nursing theories are an important way to gain knowledge in the nursing field by exploring the unknown‚ generating assumptions‚ and developing relationships. Theories offer a way of looking at nursing in clear terms that can be passed on to others. They guide nurses to the structure of the professional practice by helping to describe‚ explain‚ and predict everyday experiences and enhance the independence of nursing. When nurses use theory and theory-based evidence to structure their practice
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Change and Nursing Theory The change theory that would work well with implementing a nurse residency program would be Lippitt’s Theory of Change. This change theory goes through a step by step process with the ultimate goal of providing actions that are gear towards the overall outcome of the patient. The first step is to diagnose the problem which in this case is retaining new graduate nurses after one year. Learning about why nurses are leaving after the first year would be beneficial. If people
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Pender Nursing Theory Nola Pender‚ former professor of nursing at the University of Michigan‚ has developed a rational-choice model of healthcare. This is not really a nursing theory per se‚ but a psychological look at how human beings perceive themselves‚ their health and their ability to change their lifestyles to promote health. As a result of this focus‚ Pender’s model is normally called the "Health Promotion Model" of nursing. Features This model is based on the idea that human beings
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According to the behavioral theory‚ learning involves alterations and modifications in behavior (Barrett‚ 2006). Behaviorists believe that what one learns is influenced by the environment instead of the student. The theory of behavioral learning also contends that reinforcement‚ whether positive or negative‚ are essential to the learning process (Smith‚ 2005). As a teacher one particular function‚ according to the behavioral learning theory‚ would be to make use of negative reinforcers to
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Change theory is a systematic method of implementing change. It gives a framework‚ or roadmap‚ for change to occur. “Understanding and using a change theory framework can help managers or other change agents to increase the likelihood of success” (Mitchell‚ 2013‚ p. 32). The theories are useful to reduce or minimize challenges that arise during the change process. Change “theory can lead to a better understanding of how change affects the organization‚ identify barriers for successful implementation
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