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NS1G46 Week 3 Nursing Theory Perspectives
NS1G46 Week 3 Nursing Theory Perspectives
Week 3 Nursing Theory Perspectives
This activity is designed to expose you to a variety of nursing theory perspectives.
Select a nursing theory you have researched in past weeks.
Analyze the theory. Your analysis should include:
Description of the theory’s background and influencing factors, including worldview
Explanation of the underlying assumptions
Evaluation of major strengths and weaknesses
Application strategies for clinical practice
Citation of case example from personal or professional life that describe the application in practice
Cite at least three scholarly articles.
Format your assignment as one of the following:
18- to 20-slide presentation
3- to 4-minute podcast
15- to 20-minute video presentation
875-word paper
another format approved by your instructor
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
In modern health care, nursing theories assist nurses by offering a number of different strategies and approaches to providing patients with optimal care. As today’s nurse educators train the next generation of nurses, they are responsible for equipping future nurses with the key components of the foremost theories, so that these nurses can utilize the methods that best fit their patient care needs. The following five nursing theories are some of the leading approaches used, offering meaningful insights that accommodate each patient’s individual health care needs and interests.
Leininger’s Culture Care Theory
Believing that culture, together with care, is a powerful construct that is essential to health and prosperity, Madeleine Leininger founded the culture care theory during her long career as a certified nurse, administrator, author, educator, and public figure. Also referred to as the theory of transcultural nursing, the culture care theory addresses the care needs of patients of diverse cultures in hospitals, clinics, and other community settings. To help nurses and nurse educators develop realistic, new, and comprehensive care practices that effectively serve the unique cultural demands of the ill, Leininger structured the culture care theory with these four major tenets:
- Though culture care practices are inherently diverse, there are some universal attributes and similarities that recur within the patterns and expressions of care.
- Culture care is strongly influenced by relevant aspects of an individual’s worldview, ethnic history, language, environmental context, and societal structure. These factors critically influence personal patterns that can be used to predict health, prosperity, sickness, and how someone behaves when confronted with difficult care concepts, like disability and death.
- An individual’s culture-based ideas of care, medicine, and health factors can greatly influence health outcomes.
- There are three transcultural modes of action available to nursing care professionals:
- culture preservation and/or maintenance
- culture accommodation and/or negotiation
- culture re-patterning and/or restructuring
Humanistic Nursing Theory
This theory focuses on the human aspect of nursing and was developed by doctors Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad during the 1960s based on their interest in mixing nursing with phenomenological and existential philosophies. Paterson and Zderad were sure that, through examining their own individual experiences and personally connecting with patients, clinical nurses would be able to devise new theoretical arguments that could potentially become useful guides for other nursing care professionals. In order to focus on the overall human experience when caring for a patient, a nurse should treat the individual as being more than just a number—the nurse needs to connect with the patient in an interpersonal fashion to develop the best care strategy. This requires engaging in dialogue with the patient, so that the nurse may blend their personal and emotional perspectives with the patient’s respective viewpoints in order to develop a well-rounded understanding of the medical situation. Through the following three concepts of humanistic nursing, nurse educators can help nurses learn how to effectively define themselves, their work, and their relationships with their patients and colleagues to ensure that their planned treatment strategies account for the personal and emotional viewpoints of every involved party:
Dialogue – Establishing complete communicative relations in three different forms:
- person to person dialogues
- person to object dialogues
- group dialogues in the form of a community of two or more people
Community – Through community, two or more people are able to discover the innate meaning of their actions by sharing ideas and experiences with one another.
Phenomenological Nursing – Intended to help nurses describe their experiences within the context of humanistic dialogue; phenomenological nursing has five phases:
- preparing to understand experiences and perceptions, without prejudice and judgment, while acknowledging one’s own personal worldview.
- getting to know the other person’s view on their experiences as a nurse or patient.
- reflecting upon previous experiences to analyze, classify, and compare one’s own experiences to that of another nurse or patient.
- synthesizing the information gained through the first three phases, based on the realities of one’s own worldview.
- using the ideas that have been inferred from each situation now represented as a whole concept or theory that represents a nurse’s understanding of their experiences or their patient’s experiences.
ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC
NS1G46 Week 3 Nursing Theory Perspectives Grading Rubric
Performance Category | 100% or highest level of performance
100% 16 points |
Very good or high level of performance
88% 14 points |
Acceptable level of performance
81% 13 points |
Inadequate demonstration of expectations
68% 11 points |
Deficient level of performance
56% 9 points
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Failing level
of performance 55% or less 0 points |
Total Points Possible= 50 | 16 Points | 14 Points | 13 Points | 11 Points | 9 Points | 0 Points |
Scholarliness
Demonstrates achievement of scholarly inquiry for professional and academic topics. |
Presentation of information was exceptional and included all of the following elements:
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Presentation of information was good, but was superficial in places and included all of the following elements:
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Presentation of information was minimally demonstrated in all of the following elements:
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Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in one of the following elements:
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Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in two of the following elements:
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Application of Course Knowledge
Demonstrate the ability to analyze and apply principles, knowledge and information learned in the outside readings and relate them to real-life professional situations |
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Presentation of information was good, but was superficial in places and included all of the following elements:
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Interactive Dialogue
Initial post should be a minimum of 300 words (references do not count toward word count) The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each (references do not count toward word count) Responses are substantive and relate to the topic. |
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Grammar, Syntax, APA
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Participation
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Due Date Requirements | Demonstrated all of the following:
A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT. |
Demonstrates one or less of the following.
A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT. |