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Adrian Morejon Juiz

Nursing Theory

Nursing theories of caring have evolved throughout the ages and are based on the ethical concept of respect for human life and the desire for charity in nurse conduct. The theory is supposed to provide principles that govern nursing practice. The approach is founded on and done in collaboration with theory and clinical expertise. It is vital to employ legal frameworks such as human rights and the notion of best interests for the integrity of offering care to offenders. They might effectively establish boundaries for an area where proper care and compassion are to be practiced for these individuals. They could be utilized to promote the exercise of compassion with suitable adjustment.

The theory is founded on six fundamental assumptions, including that people are caring by nature, that humanity is rooted in caring. That nursing is both a discipline and a profession. In the case of providing care for offenders, the three stated assumptions can be applied to ensure they get the care they deserve.

Part Two

Many changes occur in health systems, requiring procedures and methods to deal with these transitions and their impact by defining the responsibilities that can or must play in helping transition for individuals and communities before, during, and after the change. It is done by understanding the transition's response and nature, enabling the process, and adjusting to its different stages. Intervening to foster satisfaction and control of change's repercussions. It involves supportive systems through a treatment team of practitioners. The objective is to explain what is happening, what might happen later by giving information, techniques, methods, and practical capacities for dealing with change experiences and reactions.

 

References:

Herring, J. (2017). Compassion, ethics of care and legal rights. International Journal of Law in Context, 13(2), 158-171.

Nursing As Caring revised 2013. (2013). Retrieved 18 October 2021, from https://www.slideshare.net/karolesessums/nursing-as-caring-revised-2013/1?src=clipshare

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Smith, M. & Parker, M. (2020). Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice. (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company. ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-3312-4

Wolf, Z. R., & France, N. E. (2017). Caring in nursing theory. International Journal of Human Caring, 21(2), 95-10

Inalvis Diaz

Patients, families and health systems encounter and face many changes that prompt processes and strategies for coping with these changes and their aftermath. Access to comprehensive, quality health care services is important for promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing disease, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans. When considering access to health care, it is important to also include oral health care and obtaining necessary prescription drugs. Access to health services means "the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes. Barriers to health services include: high cost of care, inadequate or no insurance coverage, lack of availability of services and lack of culturally competent care.

The health benefits of education accrue at the individual level (e.g., skill development and access to resources); the community level (e.g., the health-related characteristics of the environments in which people live); and the larger social/ cultural context (e.g., social policies, residential segregation, and unequal access to educational resources). All of these upstream factors may contribute to health outcomes, while factors such as ability to navigate the health care system, educational disparities in personal health behaviors, and exposure to chronic stress act as more proximate factors. It is also important to consider the impact of health on educational attainment and the conditions that occur throughout the life course that can impact both health and education, such as early childhood experiences. 

Part 1

One of the most important roles nurse practitioners have today is patient education. This was once reserved for the physician, but no longer. Today nurse practitioners assume more and more responsibility for educating patients and helping them to become responsible for their own health status. Patients need to take a proactive role in their own health care. This means they need to comprehend their health status and work to stabilize and prevent or minimize complications from any chronic illnesses.

Hospital nurses can best educate patients by understanding that discharge planning begins with admission. Nurses have to ensure patients are effectively educated throughout their hospitalization so that they are prepared to care for themselves and don’t return for the same issue. Spending the last 20 minutes of a hospital stay discussing the patient’s illness and follow up care is not adequate. Handing him materials to read on his way home is most ineffective because he likely has little to no understanding of what he was hospitalized for and why he needs to follow up.

Part 2

The transition experience starts before an event and has an ending point that varies based on numerous variables. Understanding the nature of and responses to change, facilitating the experience and responding to its different phases, and promoting health and wellbeing prior to, during and at the end of the change event, is what prompts the utilization of Transitions Theory.

The goal of intervention is to facilitate a healthy transition process as well as healthy outcome responses. Interventions can involve providing expertise, identifying milestones, modeling the role of others, providing resources and rehearsal opportunities and debriefing.

Two of nurses’ major goals are to prepare individuals and families for developmental, situational and health illness transitions, and to care for them during the transition and to enhance their wellbeing and the quality of their lives. The goals are to ensure they are able to cope with the changes they experience in their health and encounter in their environment and to emerge being able to function up to their full capacities. 

References

Access to Health Services. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/Access-to-Health-Services

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Slh87 Follow. (2017, July 06). Transitions theory Afaf Meleis. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/slh87/transitions-theory-afaf-meleis

Alina Rivero Parets

Introduction

The nursing practice is often defined by caring. To enjoy their career as nurses, they must be ready to care for and help their patients. Caring and being compassionate to their patients is what inspires them the most. Nursing should not only be about treating and diagnosing illnesses but also building a good relationship with patients. For the sake of my patient's well-being and health, I want to be so caring. In this paper, I will discuss how humans are intrinsically motivated to care for others and how I can apply transitions theory in my current nursing practice.

How I can provide care to a criminal based on the Caring Theory

In chapter 19, we learn that human beings do things without expecting external rewards because they enjoy doing them (Turkel et al., 2018). This is because they are intrinsically motivated. In the nursing career, Caring Theory takes the better part of the day. For instance, just the other day, a prisoner was admitted to my workplace after being beaten for molesting a child. First, regardless of him being a criminal, the human in me would not allow me to see him suffer since he was severely bruised. Although I learned that he had molested a child, I chose to advocate for his medical needs, avoided judging him, and always kept a smiling face whenever I was with him. According to nursing ethics, I have to treat all my patients equally, despite their backgrounds.

How I can apply Transitions Theory in my nursing practice

Transitions theory is commonly used in the nursing practice, more so when helping patients who are undergoing physical changes or are developing from one stage to another (Bohner, 2017). I will apply this theory in decision-making concerning my patients' health and well-being in my nursing career. I will also apply it when assessing my patients' health records and diagnosing illnesses. Through this, I will be able to care for every individual at a personal level.

Conclusion

In summary, though it is not easy to decide between caring for a person who is perfectly aware of his criminal records, I am trying my best as a nurse. This is to ensure that my patient's interests are upheld.

 

 References

Bohner, K. (2017). Theory description, critical reflection, and theory evaluation of the transitions theory of Meleis et al. according to Chinn and Kramer (2011). Advances in Nursing Science, 40(3), E1-E19.

Turkel, M. C., Watson, J., & Giovannoni, J. (2018). Caring science or science of caring. Nursing Science Quarterly, 31(1), 66-71.

 

Jose Cardentey Hernandez

Based on this theory, how do you provide care for a criminal who needs care?

Nursing as a caring theory emphasizes the virtue of humanness by ensuring that nurses practice caring while dealing with patients irrespective of the patient's background (Nikfarid, Hekmat, Vedad, & Rajabi, 2018). Therefore, as a nurse, when approached with a criminal that needs medical care, it is important to implement the assumption of humanness and provide care to the criminal because the work of nurses is to save lives and taking care of the criminal is also a way of saving a life. Therefore, nurses should not stop providing care to someone with the argument that the person is a criminal. Life is life, and as a nurse, the primary objective is to save a life. Judging issues should be left to the court systems, which will deal with the case to convict the criminal, but the nurse should concentrate on providing care as stated in nursing as a caring theory.

The transitions theory incorporates intervention and comprehension of what has taken place. How do you apply the transitions theory to your current nursing practice?

The theory of transition helps acknowledge the universal aspect of nursing. When analyzing the changing system and societies that the nurses deal with daily, the theory of transition will be useful as it provides essential information on differences in terms of systems and society that nurses have to be ready to deal with as a way of promoting a healthy society (Graf, Jacob, Twigg, & Nattabi, 2020). The theory will also help develop therapeutics supportive of positive experiences based on different aspects of society by incorporating social change. Therefore, transition theory is essential in preparing nurses to operate in the changing nursing system and societal changes that require nurses to be flexible so that in cases of changes, they can still adapt to the changes and continue offering high-quality healthcare services.

References

Graf, A. C., Jacob, E., Twigg, D., & Nattabi, B. (2020). Contemporary nursing graduates’          transition to practice: A critical review of transition models. Journal of clinical nursing, 29(15-16), 3097-3107.

Nikfarid, L., Hekmat, N., Vedad, A., & Rajabi, A. (2018). The main nursing metaparadigm concepts in human caring theory and Persian mysticism: a comparative study. Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine, 11.