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Nursing theories and Conceptual Models
Vallejos Elizabeth
St. Thomas University
Instructor: Tina Roberts
Phil Theo Evi Bsd Research
May 31, 2021
The healthcare industry and nursing practice have made significant strides over the years. Despite these transformations, including the increased development and adoption of advanced healthcare technologies, nursing theories still play a critical role in nursing practice. Evidence shows the separation of nursing practice from theories undermines the true meaning of nursing and nursing care services. The same can be said about advanced nursing practice. Advanced nurse practitioners use several theories and conceptual frameworks in their everyday practices.
Nursing theories plays an instrumental role in nursing practice. Nursing theories were a natural outcome of deliberate steps meant to improve the body of nursing practice and nursing education. These steps deliberately led to improvement of nursing research and knowledge. It also became apparent that without conceptual and theoretical framework, nursing research processes would not be feasible. Conceptual models and theoretical framework are structures that offer nurses with a perspective of a patient and professional practice. It is also essential to point out that conceptual models provide structure for a phenomenon , direct thinking, observations and interpretations and further provide directions that guide nursing actions and practices. It is also essential to point out that in research, a theoretical or a conceptual framework is the underpinning of the study and if a framework is based on a theory, it is referred to as a theoretical framework.
An example is the environment theory of nursing developed by Florence Nightingale. The theory focuses on changing patients’ environment to influence change in their health and wellbeing. In this context, caring for the patient is an important nursing process and promotes early patient recovery (Gilbert, 2020). Today, the concepts discussed in Nightingale’s theory play a critical role in infection control and creating safe environments that promote healing.
Another example is Martha Rogers’ theory of unitary human beings. The theory positions that treatments and nursing interventions should focus on the harmonious relationship between patients and their environments, enhancing patients’ health and wellbeing (Phillips, 2016). In this context, nursing care focuses on individuals and the manifestations that emerge from the mutual human-environment field processes. It also advocates for changing patients’ environment to facilitate their health process and overall health and wellbeing. Madeleine Lininger’s transcultural nursing theory also plays an important role in advanced practice nursing. Advanced nurse practitioners encounter patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Lininger’s theory encourages nurses to develop cultural competencies that would help in developing positive patient-provider relationships (Daniel, 2016). Overall, advanced practice nurses have a wide of theories and conceptual frameworks that can guide their practices in different areas of nursing practice
Conclusively, a theory is a group of related concepts that propose actions that guide nursing practice. As such, theories refer to coherent group of general propositions that are used as principles of explanations. Imperatively, nursing theory and conceptual framework provides a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or disciplines and imperatively project a purposeful and systematic view of a phenomena by designing a specific inter-relationships among concepts for the purposes of describing, explaining and predicting nursing actions.
References
Daniel, B. B. (2016). Madeleine Lininger and the transcultural theory of nursing. The Downtown Review, 2, 1.
Gilbert, H. A. (2020). Florence Nightingale’s environmental theory and its influence on contemporary infection control. Collegian, 27(6), 626-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2020.09.006
Philips, J. R. (2016). Rogers’ science of unitary human beings: Beyond the frontier of science. Nursing Science Quarterly, 29(1), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318415615112
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