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All nursing theories encompass person, environment, health, and the nurse and are categorized into three hierarchies: grand nursing theories, middle-range nursing theories, and practice level nursing theories.
The nursing metaparadigm identifies four main concepts of nursing theory — first named by Jacqueline Fawcett — that outline how nurses need to evaluate their patients and provide care. We’ll walk you through these four main components so you can see how they interact to create the full picture of a patient’s health and needs.
Fundamentally, nursing theories look at healthcare factors to identify ways to improve them through four main concepts. These four concepts of nursing theory (by Jacqueline Fawcett, Ph.D.) are the person, environment, health, and nursing.
Before learning how to use the nursing process, it is important to understand basic concepts concerning how critical thinking relates to nursing practice. Let’s take a deeper look at how nurses think.
DEFINITION OF NURSING. Nursing integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence.
The nursing process is used as a framework for providing patient care based on the following nursing concepts: safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, and elimination.
Nursing theories determine the scope of care and provide a foundation for decision-making. Learn about the most common nursing theory concepts.
In a historical analysis of literature on the discipline of nursing, five concepts emerged as defining the discipline: human wholeness; health; healing and well-being; environment-health relationship; and caring.
Chapter Outline. 1.1 Evolution of Nursing and Nursing Practice. 1.2 Nursing Education Programs. 1.3 Nursing as a Profession. 1.4 History and Evolution of Nursing Theories. 1.5 Selected Nursing Theorist. 1.6 Application of Theories in Nursing Practice.
The nursing process is used as a framework for providing patient care based on the following nursing concepts: safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, and elimination.