Friday, December 19, 2008

432 The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing · September 2008 · Vol 39, No 9
resource reviews
Susan C. Haussler, EdD, RN, CNE
Associate Editor
Stressed Out About
Communication Skills
by Kathleen Bartholomew; 2007;
Marblehead, MA: HCPro, Inc.; 153
pages; $29.95; softcover.
This timely book is written for
entry-level students in nursing
and health-related disciplines and
novice nurses. Communication encounters
(nurse to patient, nurse to
nurse, nurse to physician, and nurse
to manager) are clearly presented
in an easy to follow format. Practical
tips and strategies for effective
communication are provided. Visual
symbols are consistently used
throughout the book to orient the
reader to particular passages. The
final chapters outline excellent strategies
for developing and exploring
communication techniques in
a variety of settings and personal
encounters. The final page encourages
the reader to develop his or her
voice within the discipline of nursing.
Often humorous, Bartholomew
shares her nursing experiences and
encounters over the years in the
hope of facilitating the communication
process across the health care
continuum.
Stressed Out About Communication
Skills clearly orients the reader
to effective communication skills
and strategies. These skills and strategies
are applied to a variety of settings
and encounters that nursing
students and novice nurses will face.
I fully recommend this book for its
content, style, and importance.

Thomas W. Connelly, Jr., PhD, RN
Director, ASN Program
Anna Maria College
Paxton, Massachusetts

The Johns Hopkins
Nursing Evidence-Based
Practice Model and
Guidelines

by Robin P. Newhouse, Sandra L.
Dearholt, Stephanie S. Poe, Linda C.
Pugh, and Kathleen M. White; 2007;
Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau
International; $29.95; 224 pages;
softcover.

Health care today exemplifies a
culture of improving quality,
promoting patient safety, supporting
practice with evidence, and closing
the traditional gap between research
and practice with knowledge. Regarding
this culture, “nursing interventions
and processes informed by
the best evidence are critical to realizing
healthcare improvements” (p. 3).
The Johns Hopkins Nursing
Evidence-Based Practice Model and
Guidelines demystifies evidencebased
practice. This book describes
the model and its guidelines in a practical,
reader-friendly manner that the
student, the new nurse beginning
his or her career, and the extremely
experienced practitioner would find
useful. This book goes beyond the
discussion of the model—it provides
health care organizations with key
strategies for implementing model
concepts, effective tools to define
nursing problems or issues, and
sample forms to test the model. Its
well-structured index helps readers
quickly locate key sections of the
text.
The Johns Hopkins Nursing
Evidence-Based Practice Model and
Guidelines would be an extremely
valuable addition to any nursing
library, education department, or
nursing practice or research council.
Linda J. Curtin, RN, PhD, CCRN
Director, Nursing Practice, Education and
Research
Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center
Brockton, Massachusetts

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Nursing theories

Nursing theories

A) Example of grand theories

  1. Faye G. Abdullah : Patient-Center Approaches to nursing
  2. Virginia Henderson: The principles and practice of nursing
  3. Dorothea E. Orem: The self-care deficit nursing theory.
  4. Dorothy Johnson: The behavioral system model.
  5. Betty Neuman: The Neuman system model
  6. Imogen king: Kings systems framework and theory of goal attainment
  7. Myra E. Levins: The conservation model
  8. Sister Callista Roy: The Roy adaptation model
  9. Jean Watson: Nursing-Human science and Human caring
  10. Martha Rogers: The Science of Unitary and irreducible human being.
  11. Margerate Newman: Heath as expanding consciousness
  12. Rosemarie Parse: The theory of human being

B) Example of borrowed theories

Theories from sociology

2. General system theory

3. Role theory

4. Feminist theory

5. Critical social theory

6. Theories from behavioral science

7. Psychoanalytic theory

8. Interpersonal theory

9. Operant conditioning

10. Human needs theory

11. Person-centered theory

12. Stress, coping, adaptation theory

Theories from medical sciences

  1. Germ theory and principles of infection
  2. Homoeostasis
  3. Theories of immunity and immune infection
  4. Genetic principles and theories
Pain management: Gate control theory

Applications of Dorothea Orem’s Self- Care Deficit Nursing Theory

According to Orem (2001), it is the special focus on human being
that disthinguishes or differentiates nursing from other human
services. From this point of view, the role of nursing in society
is to enable individuals to develop and exercise their selfcare
abilities to the extent that they can provide for
themselves the amount and quality of care required.
According to the theory, individuals whose
requirements for self-care exceed their capabilities
for engaging in self-care are said to be experiencing
a self-care deficit.Moreover, it is the presence of an
existing or potential self-care deficit that identifies
those persons in need of nursing. Thus, Orem’s
Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory explains when
and why nursing is required.
Orem (2001) describes the Self-Care Deficit
Nursing Theory as a general theory of nursing.
General theories of nursing are applicable across all
practice situations in which persons need nursing
care. As such, the Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
describes and explains the key concepts common to
all nursing practice situations (Orem, 1995). The
theory consists of four concepts about persons
under the care of nurses, two nurse-related concepts,
and three interrelated theories (the Theory of
Nursing Systems, the Theory of Self-Care Deficit,
and the Theory of Self-Care). Concepts in the general
theory include, self-care, self-care agency, therapeutic
self-care demand, self-care deficit, nursing
agency, and nursing systems. The theory describes
and explains the relationship between the capabilities
of individuals to engage in self-care (self-care
agency) and their requirements for self-care (therapeutic
self-care demand). The term “deficit” refers
to a particular relationship between self-care
agency and self-care demand that is said to exist
when capabilities for engaging in self-care are less
than the demand for self-care.
The comprehensive development of the self-care
concepts enhances the usefulness of the Self-Care
Deficit Nursing Theory as a guide to nursing practice
situations involving individuals across the life
span who are experiencing health or illness, and to
nurse-client situations aimed at health promotion,
health restoration, or health maintenance.
According to this theory, nurses use their specialized
capabilities to create a helping system insituations
where persons are deemed to have an existentor
potential self-care deficit. Decisions about
what type of nursing system is appropriate in a
given nursing practice situation rests with the
answer to the question, “Who can and should
perform the self-care operations?” (Orem, 2001,
p. 350). When the answer is the nurse, a wholly
compensatory system of helping is appropriate.
When it is concluded that the patient can and
should perform all self-care actions, the nurse assumes
a supportive-educative role and designs a
nursing system accordingly. In nursing practice
situations, the goal of nursing is to empower
the person to meet their self-care requirements by
doing for (wholly compensatory system), doing
with (partly compensatory system), or developing
agency (supportive-educative system).
This chapter focuses on the extent to which
Orem’s theory is offering direction to nurse scholars
and scientists in advancing nursing science and
professional practice. Dorothy Johnson (1959), in
her treatise on nursing theory development, viewed
this attribute of a theory as its value for the profession,
its social utility.
Research

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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