Nursing Theory in Holistic Nursing Practice



Nursing Theory in Holistic Nursing Practice


Noreen Cavan Frisch



Nurse Healer OBJECTIVES









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Theoretical



  • Describe the elements of holistic nursing and explain why the use of theory is one of the elements.


  • Compare and contrast the following major nursing theories: Nightingale’s Theory of Environmental Adaptation Model; the Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory, Watson’s Theory of Transpersonal Caring; Rogers’s Theory of Unitary Human Beings; Newman’s Theory of Expanding Consciousness; and Parse’s Theory of Human Becoming.


  • Identify the use of midrange theories as supportive of nursing practice, particularly Kolcaba’s Comfort Care Theory.


  • Identify emerging theories that have attracted the attention of holistic nurses as applicable to their contemporary practice and the development of the Theory of Integral Nursing as a consequence of such examination and exploration of new ideas.


Clinical



  • Apply the nursing theories discussed in the clinical setting.


  • Determine how the perspective of each theory influences nursing care and the evaluation of that care.


Personal



  • Select a nursing theory or theories that provide a framework and philosophy consistent with your own view.


  • Use the theory or theories and evaluate their effect on your personal worldview.


Jun 21, 2016 | Posted by in NURSING | Comments Off on Nursing Theory in Holistic Nursing Practice

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