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Middle Range Theories Community Nursing Practice Model and Locsin’s Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

· We are still exploring Section VI: Middle Range Theories which are more specific to the practice of nursing. The two models that are up for discussion this week are very much relevant to today’s nursing environment of community initiatives and technology how they relate to our profession.

Chapter 25: The Community Nursing Practice Model

A community nursing practice (CNP) model is presented as the synthesis of a decade of experience of caring for persons and communities. Values form the basis of the model and provide the grounding for practice. Transcendent values of respect, caring, and wholeness are explicated in the actualizing values of primary health care: access, essentiality, empowerment, intersectoral collaboration, and community participation. Usefulness of the CNPM in providing a framework for community nursing practice at school-based community wellness centers in both the United States and Africa is described. Narratives of practice and research presented in the unique voice of three faculty members illuminate the model's values and paradigmatic view of person, nursing, community, and environment. These narratives provide insight into how the CNPM has served as a heuristic in the design of creative responses to calls for nursing in community nursing practice, education, and research.

The foundations for the model as per our text include:

Respecting persons, remembering that persons are caring, and caring is understood as the essence of nursing, and persons are whole, always connected with one another in families or communities.

Benefits to the community. Nurses within the community help to keep hospital admissions down, freeing up beds for critical cases and preventing long admission times. It also allows patients to feel comfortable in their own living space and helps to build trust and a closer relationship between the nurse and patient.

Video Presentation:

Concept Map: Community Nursing Practice Model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATAMCT-9po

Chapter 26: Rozzano Locsin's Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

This model proves interesting as nursing has already evolved into the era of modernization through technology. Let’s think about how our practice has been impacted by electronic health records, telehealth, electronic monitoring devices and many other instruments utilized to improve patient health outcomes. Throughout all the digitalization, we have to remember that nursing is about caring for people.

Theoretical assumptions include:

· Persons are caring by virtue of their humanness.

· Persons are whole or complete in the moment.

· Knowing persons is a process of nursing that allows for continuous appreciation of persons moment to moment.

· Technology is used to know wholeness of persons moment to moment

· Nursing is a discipline and a professional practice.

It is imperative that we come to understand that we as nurses come to know that people are humans and participants in our care modalities, we should never view them as merely objects that care is provided.

Video Interview: 

Technological Competence as Caring in Nursing: An Interview with Theorist Rozzano Locsin

(Video is approximately 54 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi5cHCTHqg4

Reading Assignment from Smith and Parker Textbook

Chapter 25: The Community Nursing Practice Model

Chapter 26: Rozzano Locsin's Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

Discussion Post Assignment #7

How do you see the benefit of using both the Community Nursing Practice Model and Locsin's Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing in today’s nursing environment?

I am looking forward to some robust conversations taking place. Please remember to adhere to APA publication standards and please following the grading rubric