Over the years, there has been countless nursing theories has been developed in the field of nursing, but Lydia E.Halls theory has had a major impact in the nursing field. Hall’s background in psychiatry, rehabilitive care and with the help of her extensive knowledge and experience in the field of nursing, she derived a theory, focusing on the notion that centers on three components of care cure and core. The purpose of this paper is to present and explore the historical evolution of the theory and discuss the purpose of the theory. Lastly, explain the effect of Hall’s theory had on the profession of nursing.
Historical Evolution of the Theory
“Here, I set out to briefly overview the ideas of Lydia Hall—the nursing theorist who has had most influence on my own thinking as nurse. Lydia Hall was a rehabilitation nurse who developed the ‘Care, Core, and Cure Model’ as an early model of nursing practice and who subsequently used this model at the Loeb Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at the Monteriore Hospital in the Bronx, New York” (Alan Pearson p. 321). Lydia e. hall was a nurse and a fundamental nursing theorist. Hall’s greatest contribution to the nursing field was the care, cure and core model she developed which seems to not only be followed by majority of the nurses, but also has been used as an effective tool to conduct study. Once a study was done to examine the effects of music therapy on state anxiety in female breast cancer patients following radical mastectomy, in which Lydia E. Hall’s Core, Care, and Cure Model was used as the theoretical framework for the Study (Chinese).
She demonstrated the effectiveness of her theory by putting it in practice at the Loeb center. Lydia Hall established, the Loeb Center for...
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...rmation to nurses about the patients hands on bodily care using the self in relationship to the patient and teaches how to apply medical knowledge on the patient during the illness period of the patient, which will ultimately help allow nurses to do more than just the basic daily nursing activities and lead to better patient outcome.
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... Through the demonstration of these values on a daily basis, the nurse is able to not only take better care of his or her patients, but is also able to take care of his or herself. Through self-care, the nurse is able to better understand the phenomena of the client, and is able to provide better client-centered care.
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Aside from Florence Nightingale, there are other icons in the history of nursing. For example, some important individuals are Virginia Henderson, Dorothy Johnson, Martha Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and Sister Callista Roy. These icons believed that the goal of nursing is to help clients, reduce stress, to help identify their needs, prevent illness, and promote health (O’Neill, pg. 4, 2014). All of these principles play a major role in the nursing profession. Some other their frameworks or principles are involved with the fourteen fundamentals needs, 7 behavioral subsystem in an adaptation model, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, evidence-based practice, primary caring, advance practice nursing, cultural competence, holistic approach, primary prevention, secondary prevention and tertiary prevention (O’Neill, pg. 4, 2014). These changes has improved and reformed many aspect of
This paper is a first attempt at forming and articulating my own philosophy of nursing.
“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. Remember he is face to face with his enemy all the time, internally wrestling with him” (Nightingale, 1992, p. 22). Fortunately, in the nineteenth century, Florence Nightingale recognized uncertainty could cause harm to her patients (Nightingale, 1992). Equally important to the nursing profession are the nursing theorists, their work, and the evolution of the theories that followed Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing (Alligood, 2014). One of the many theorists that followed the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, was Merle Mishel (Alligood, 2014).
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Also, includes examples of nursing hands off that will be implemented, such as including the patient at the bedside. Having small trainings to provide information that will be needed to implement this, being sure all the important parts are cover, such as vitals, assessment, labs, and medication. Using online aids to help assist, providing additional information to those who need it.
Another nursing concept that was demonstrated throughout the film was communication and collaboration. This nursing concept is important in the field of nursing being that one cannot take care of a patient by
Many Cancer patients use music to stay strong throughout their treatments to help them cope with the anxiety, pain, and depression. Some studies show that music rehabilitation can help adolescents with cancer to manage, by encouraging them to collaborate and interconnect. Being able to cope with major decisions that are thrown at you in life can cause stress which can lead to other things; being able to calm down by listening to music is a great way to keep patients from causing their self harm. There wouldn’t be a need for any medication that the patient will have to take on a daily basis to deal with anxiety, stress, and depression.
Every person’s needs must be recognized, respected, and filled if he or she must attain wholeness. The environment must attuned to that wholeness for healing to occur. Healing must be total or holistic if health must be restored or maintained. And a nurse-patient relationship is the very foundation of nursing (Conway et al 2011; Johnson, 2011). The Theory recognizes a person’s needs above all. It sets up the conducive environment to healing. It addresses and works on the restoration and maintenance of total health rather than only specific parts or aspect of the patient’s body or personality. And these are possible only through a positive healing relationship between the patient and the nurse (Conway et al, Johnson).
The purpose of this theory is very specific to nursing and caring. Watson focused the purpose of this theory to the core concepts of nursing keeping both the patient and environment in mind. Each concept addressed in the theory focusing to promote, prevent, and restore health. The purpose of the theory applies to each of the concepts, assumptions, and factors. Watson implies that caring can assist the person to gain control, become knowledgeable, and promote health
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Nursing theories are actions care that a nurse provides to a patient to prevent a sickness, maintain and promote health. Many of the theorists contribute to a frame work or a blueprint of how nurses should provide care to patients. Many these theories are part of nursing care and most of them they go hand in hand. Nursing theory aims to describe, predict and explain the phenomenon of nursing (Chinn and Jacobs1978).Nursing is apprehensive with laws and principles governing the life processes and functioning of sick or well human beings. Nursing theories are beneficial in understanding the knowledge of nursing and its application (Smith and Liehr, 2008).
One of the theories of nursing is Dorothea Orem’s self-care theory, also called the self-care deficit theory. Nursing theories are important for several reasons. The profession is strengthened when knowledge is built on sound theory (Black, 2014). Theory is important for reasoning, thinking, decision-making, and supporting excellence in practice (Black, 2014). Dorothea Orem’s theory is a conceptual model that provides a structure for critical thinking in the nursing process (Black, 2014). A conceptual model provides a comprehensive and holistic perspective of nursing (Black, 2014). Orem published her theory in 1959 and continued to develop her model, eventually formalizing three interrelated theories: theory of self-care, theory of self-care deficit, and theory of nursing system (Black, 2014). The focus of Orem’s model is the patient’s self-care capacity. The process helps to design a nursing process specific to each patient that will provide for the self-care deficit of the patient (Black, 2014). Self-care deficits exist when the patient has limitations and the self-care requirement is greater than he patient’s capacity (Manzini & Simonetti, 2009).