Faye's Impact Of The Nursing Theory Of Nursing

In the field of nursing, theories and ideals change day by day. Some practices are no longer practices, theories are no longer taught, and ideals are no longer ideals. There is always a “better” idea put into the nursing field and progress is continuous. The continuous impacts have originated from pioneer researchers such as Faye Abdullah. Faye had many degrees such as her nursing certificate, Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorates degrees (American Nurses Association). Her education helped her make the impact she has made with concepts that are still being used in the nursing field today. Faye had many accomplishments, but nothing like her research which later helped her transform the nursing theory and nursing education. Faye started out at Ann May School of Nursing where she received her nursing certificate and

She realized that the patients were not the only people involved in a patient’s care, and that the family played a significant role too. The impacts of her 21 problems nursing theory included many social issues such as poverty, pollution, racism, and education (Petritin, Alice, 2016). The changes Faye made in education has had the biggest impact on me. Faye, along with many other theorists, realized that there were nurses practicing with different educations. She believed that professional nurses should get an abundance more of education, and an increase in the quality that they were receiving previously to improve the quality of care that the patients were receiving. If we were still receiving the education that was being given before the standards were raised, patient care would not be as efficient as it is today. In addition, nurses used to be taught that diagnosis were not in their job description. According to the American Nurses Association, her theory significantly refers to nursing diagnosis’s. In the very first nursing classes that nursing students take, they are taught about the nursing