Nursing Phenomenon Of Interest

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Healthcare is always evolving and the demand to improve patient outcome is tremendous and it has changed the way we provide service. This paper will first review the phenomenon of interest, and then discuss about nursing meta-paradigm, grand nursing theory, middle range nursing theory, complexity science, and ethical framework and how they are applied to my POI.
A quick description of the Phenomenon of Interest that will be the basis of the discussion for this paper is about the challenges of medication adherence to antipsychotic medications in patient’s diagnosed with schizophrenia and how it increases relapse and readmission rate (Maddad, Brain, & Scott, 2014). It also talks about their cognitive impairment, which is a characteristic of …show more content…

It is based on the relationship between the patient who is going through a period of life altering event and their environment. It explains the patients ability to transcend beyond self when facilitated by health providers such as nurses, therefore, they can expand intrapersonally, interpersonally, temporally, and transpersonally, leading to develop a new perspective and meaning of life. The theory inquires knowledge beyond qualitative data, as it requires the patient participate so their perspective and experience are being …show more content…

Treating patients with schizophrenia is a lot more complex than it appears as statistic demonstrates that 74% discontinue their medications after being discharged from treatment (Higashi, 2013), despite the significance of antipsychotic medications. The complexity of healthcare today is too sophisticated for hierarchal or vertical organizations to manage according to Butts and Rich (2015). The authors continued to say that it will require components of complex adaptive systems (CAS) to deal with the pace and significant amount of knowledge to process and according to Mitchell, Wynia, Golden, McNellis, Okun,Webb, Rohrbach, and Kohorn (2012), traditional means of treating patients by an individual provider is outdated because the rate in which the health care is evolving is simply too much for one person to function in isolation (as cited by Spear, 2005). When treating patients with schizophrenia, I will need to construct an innovative team that consists strategically of diverse interdisciplinary members who knows how lead in their specific practice as agents and whose strengths are much different than mine. According to Malloch (2014), working with a diverse group is challenging but will produce a high-capacity team that can attain an unimaginable amount of work. Wynia et al.

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