Nursing Theory
Introduction Patient safety and quality service is the key objective in the nursing practice. Therefore, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) is a crucial element of the nursing practice. The QSEN training enables student nurses to embrace teamwork and collaborate with other nurses to improve the quality of care by assisting and correcting…
Introduction Nursing practitioners, much like other professionals, have unique binding values, attitudes and behaviors. This paper outlines these values and their significance to nursing practitioners in their daily practice. Two theories of nursing form the basis of this project. These theories are important since despite the evolving nature of the nursing profession over time due…
Introduction Accountability is a key concern for nurses and midwives in the National Health Service (NHS) today. Accountability means assuming responsibility for ones actions (Daniels 2004). The modern concept of professional accountability, applied to nursing, assumes that the nurse is a member of a profession. It depends on individual nurses being aware of their membership…
Introduction Madeleine Leninger was born on July 23 1925 in Sutton, Nebraska. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in Australia, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Her theory of Culture Care is now a nursing discipline. In this modern health care system, nurses should consider culture as an important aspect…
Introduction The role of theory to the profession of nursing is a foundational one. The presence of theory and a specialized scientific knowledge base coupled with unique practice abilities establish nursing as a profession (Alligood, 2013a). Theories provide nursing with a perspective that emphasizes the knowledge focused thinking pattern and decision making skills that are…
Introduction Imogene Kings (1981) theory of Goal Attainment concentrates on how goals of the client are attained through the nurse-client transactions. Nursing goal is to attain, maintain, and regain a healthy state. Goals are developed through the communication and interaction, and within a social system, client goals are achieved- highlighted by mutually set goals among…
Introduction Frameworks are used to accurately gage a patients health. They are a systematic way of collecting objective and subjective data to establish a plan of care for the patient. Health care professionals must continually observe the patient’s subjective and objective data in order to recognise any changes in the patient’s health so that they…
Introduction This paper is an analysis and critique of a published nursing philosophy and theory by the nurse theorist Madeleine Leininger, called Culture Care theory. The analysis is based on Leininger’s publications about her theory starting in the mid-1950’s with her major contribution stemming from her second book, Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research, and Practice…
