Nursing Theorists Martha Rogers was an American nurse who used research and theorized how one should view nursing as both an art and a science while being aware of each individuals’ uniqueness. Born in 1914, Rogers rose through the career as well as degrees while obtaining her nursing experience in and outside of the field. While teaching as a professor in New York, Rogers developed her theory known as “The Science of Unitary Human Beings”. Throughout her career, Rogers created many different publications looking at both the artistic and scientific aspects. Within “The Science of Unitary Human Beings” and other written theories, Rogers explains how each unique being is an “irreducible, indivisible…energy field” and no patient and their issues are ever the same as someone previous or the …show more content…
Rogers, understanding this, tried to inspire those in nursing to no longer look at these patients are the parts of themselves that were ill, but to instead look towards their health and illnesses along with the person themselves as a whole. In a life that is so busy for everyone, it’s always been a refreshing moment when someone brings in the aspects that don’t necessarily apply to the reason of my visit, but are still important regardless. Rogers work in both pushing for a more ‘human’ understanding of our daily interactions as nurses is inspiring for the fact that it is simple but so easily overlooked that when someone finally does it, it brings that much more into the therapeutic relationship.
Overall, Rogers theory is relatable because everyone has experienced a moment when it seems that all someone wants to do is focus on one singular aspect of you. By being mindful of all these aspects to a synergistic relationship, Rogers has empowered future nurses with the open mindset going in and hopefully going out of a relationship as
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Participant 4 stated, “I think just basically being there for the family as well…I think even just a cup of tea can go a long way with any family (McCallum & McConigley, 2013). Another theory that intertwines with Watson’s is Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing. Dossey articulates, “Healing is not predictable, it is not synonymous with curing but the potential for healing is always present even until one’s last breath,” (Parker and Smith, 2015, p. 212). Dossey believes that integral nursing is a comprehensive way to organize different situations in fours perspectives (nurse, health, person and environment) of reality with the nurse as an instrument in the healing process by bringing his or her whole self into a relationship with another whole self. In the HDU, the RN’s interacted with each patient while providing high quality care to create a healing environment for the patient and family even when their prognosis was otherwise. Patient 3 specified that “We still have to provide care...and make the family feel that they are comfortable and looked after” (McCallum & McConigley, 2013). These theories ultimately show the importance of a nurse through the aspects of caring to create and maintain a healing environment that is not only beneficial to the patient but to their loved ones as
Annie Roberts, 32 years old, and Joseph Roberts, 28 years old, have been married for five years now. Their wedding day was magical, and they both envisioned a prosperous life together. During their five years of marriage, Annie gave birth to a two year old, AJ, and a four year old, Faith. However, for the past year, Annie and Joseph have been constantly arguing and very distant. Annie took it upon herself to hire a private investigator to look into her husband’s actions. What the private investigator discovered would change Annie’s life forever. Her husband has been living a double life for the past year with a new family and separate bank account. Annie was livid, and destruction was the only thing on her mind. She had also discovered that
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
What I learned is that in order to care for a patient a nurse needs to be more concerned about quality of life rather than quality of health. I also learned that in order to develop empathy and a sense of caring for a patient, a nurse should use specific strengths-based qualities while incorporating other skills to understand the patient’s story. This in turn will allow a nurse to establish a plan of care that is different for each patient as well as truly caring about the well being of a
During my career as a registered nurse I have had the privilege of caring for my patients at the bedside and meeting their needs holistically. Additionally, the safety of my patients is one of the most important aspects of my current role. The experience of advocating for my patients during my nursing career has taught me to place my patient’s health and wellbeing first. The second most important aspect of nursing that I have learned during my career is how to meet my patient’s needs as a whole, not just physically but also emotionally and psychologically applying the holistic approach to each patient. I believe that the patient’s needs
Virginia Henderson's principles are discernible in her interpretation of nurses' roles in humanity. She posits that nurses are uniquely positioned to render assistance to anyone regardless of the individual's health status in the fulfillment of activities that contribute to health or its recovery or at least, afford the individual comfort at his/her final hours. That is, the activities that the individual would have performed for self-had he/she the ability. Henderson in essence, succinctly provided a remarkable definition for nursing (Black, 2014).
...s theory relates to the future practice of nursing because we are being taught to promote independence, which Henderson had a strong belief in. We are to encourage patients to get better again and provide reassurance. Her theory works well with the future of nursing. She focused on patients basic needs which are one of the most important features of nursing. Us as future nurses should promote independence, provide basic necessities, respect the patient’s ethnicity and beliefs, and lastly to assist the individual even if they are not ill.
It reminds us that every patient is human, in some type of crisis, vulnerable to the environment, deserves respect, and is in need of skilled/knowledgeable nursing care. A nu...
Watson views the concept of a human being as a person that should be valued, cared for, respected, nurtured, understood, and assisted (Nursing Theories, 2012). Every human being should be treated as a person instead of an object and receive the opportunity to have their distinct needs cared for. Health is viewed as a high level of physical, mental, and social functioning, ability to adapt and maintenance with daily living, and the lack of illness or the efforts that lead to the lack of (Nursing Theories, 2012). Watson’s theory believes that the environment determines the values that influence your behaviors and the goals you wish to pursue. It also influences how well a patient copes with the situation and how the nurse should be supportive and considerate towards the patient. Watson defines nursing as “a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human transactions” (Nursing Theories, 2012, para. 4). Nursing should be more than just providing medical care, it should establish a relationship and build trust. Watson’s other concepts of her theory include the caring occasion, transpersonal caring, phenomenal field, self, and
The idea of this theory is that all humans require human caring and the nurse must treat the patient as a whole, “body, mind, and soul” (Cherry & Jacob, 2017, p.85), not just the physical aspects of the disease or injury. She looked at the mental/emotional health and making sure there is congruence between the how the patient sees themselves and the reality of the situation (Cherry & Jacob, 2017, p. 85). You can clearly see this theory in the definition where it says, “treatment of the human response,” because we are addressing the patient as a human, not just addressing the pathology of what is causing them harm. I believe her work has helped me to have a more holistic approach to nursing; after nurses are able to assist their clients with physical needs, they can move up the next level and provide the highest quality of care possible for the
Later Watson explained that this work was an attempt to solve some conceptual and empirical problems, with no intention to create a theory. This theory was expanded and formalized in her next book in 1985. Since then, Watson continued to refine her ideas through various publications. At this time, the major conceptual elements of the theory are ten Clinical Caritas Processes (originally Carative factors), Transpersonal Caring Relationship, Caring Moment/Occasion and Caring Consciousness. According to Watson’s theory, the human care process is performed through a Transpersonal Caring Relationship guided by the Carative factors, which are based on humanistic – altruistic value systems.
Watson’s Theory of Transpersonal Caring is considered a philosophy; therefore, it is very broad and general in scope. Included in the theory are ten caritas the nurse should practice promoting a meaningful nurse-patient relationship (Sitzman & Wright Eichelberger, 2017).
...ow using knowledge, empathic and reflective dimensions play such a huge role in ones job and I can associate it with my prior experiences now. I want patients to walk out my room feeling like I have made a positive change in their life, whether it is small or big. Responsibility comes with playing such an important role in other people’s lives and it is how I embrace this responsibility that will determine how I change the lives of others. Not only do I want a good relationship with my clients but also with my co-workers because I might be able to make a small difference in someone’s life, but it’s us Health Professionals working together that will make the greatest difference.
She was able to identify individual’s needs, which carried forth in to her theory. She wanted to set standards and values that would meet the broad range of human needs, yet be able to recognize individual differences among patients (Anderson, 1999). Because Henderson was primarily a nurse educator, her theory focuses on the education of nurses. Her theory was created from both her education and practice, making her work appealing to both ends of the spectrum (McEwen & Wills, 2011). Her theory is focused on the needs of a patient but in Henderson also emphasizes the importance to continue education and research. She stresses the significance of constantly searching for the best solutions and practices for optimal patient care (Anderson,