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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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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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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principals of care and justice and also motivates certain civic action. Social responsibility is “strongly linked to the values of professions in general and nursing in particular” and that “the underlying constructs of social responsibility‚ communication and teamwork are woven into the fabric of nursing ’s history and its code of ethics”(Kelley‚2008). Communication‚ social responsibility and teamwork‚ are an integral part of the nursing profession. These three attributes of the profession comes through
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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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The author will discussed nursing leadership‚ nursing management with relevant theories relating to managing and coordinating patients care and nursing teams. In this essay‚ an incident in the clinical practice is analysed and evaluated using six Cs‚ exploring essential skills required‚ discussion leadership and management styles in action and consequential outcome on patients’ health and experience. A leader is an individual who can direct‚ control‚ and commands others. In healthcare setting‚ leaders
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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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The development of American civilisation in the New World is a result of the Native American and African black labourers. Forced to surrender to Spanish authority‚ examine the social consequences of the Columbian exchange. Needing labourers to excavate mines‚ work in textile factories‚ sugar plantations and farms‚ the Spanish and Portuguese employed the Native Americans and Africans. Considered dispensible‚ many natives died at an early age either because of the newly introduced diseases or the
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study of society‚ communities and people whereas nursing is a profession which focused on assisting individuals‚ families‚ and communities in attaining‚ maintaining and recovering optimal health and functioning. In this assignment‚ I will describe the definition of Sociology‚ the definition of nursing and explain why sociology is very important and is relevant to nursing practice. I hope this assignment will show the relevance of sociology to nursing practice and that will develop more professional
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