The Four Metaparadigm Theories Of Nursing

The definition of nursing according to American Nurses Association (ANA), nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.

Nursing skills is always and is a must carried out nursing practices in a safety manner, nurses protects their patients and the family as well as themselves in all the practices. Protection is very paramount in nursing practice. In nursing practice of today, nurses always checks for safety environment to carry out the practices. When talking about promotion, nurses make sure that the patients maintain their health promotions physically, socially, emotionally and psychologically. Optimizations of health and abilities are essential in nursing. In nursing, striving to substitute with the utmost cost effective and highest

The metaparadigm theory in Nursing comprises the health, the person, environments and the nursing. This theories tangled together to optimized the health status of an individual. Nurses have to put all these four metaparadigm into consideration in order to maintain a good and perfect health status of a patient. That is why nursing is a dynamic profession.

Health of an individual has to be evaluated first, to see the needs of the individual as a person. The patients might be having the same diagnosis, but the needs of the health status are different to each other. The body make up of an individual is different and the causes of an illness are different which indicates the treatment might be different as well. The social, economic, spiritual and psychological aspect of an individual determines health status of a patient. Social or psychological aspect of an individual can aggravate the disease process of a