Essay On Deliberative Nursing Process Theory

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Nursing theorists contributed greatly to professional nursing today. Ida Orlando derived her Deliberative Nursing Process Theory after being “dissatisfied with the views that nurses were motivated to act as a result of orders from physicians, institutional policies, and other reasons, none of which related to nursing action based on meeting patients’ needs” (Tyra, 2008, p. 231). Orlando’s theory was the first to recognize the role in which patient participation plays in patient feedback and planning care and was the first nursing theorist to base a theory off of her own research. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Ida Orlando’s Deliberative Nursing Process Theory is centered on the nurse-patient relationship, the validity of perception, and how the nursing process is used to achieve positive outcomes or the improvement of patient care.
To begin with, Ida Jean Orlando Pelletier was born in 1926. She received her nursing diploma from New York Medical College, Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital School of Nursing in 1947. In 1951, Ida earned her BS in public health nursing from St. John’s University and her MA in mental health nursing from Teachers College, Colombia University in 1954. When Orlando was an associate professor and director of the Graduate Program in Mental Health Psychiatric Nursing at Yale University, she set out to answer a multitude questions about the nursing role. As research, Ida evaluated the goods and bads of nursing practice as she witnessed from 2,000 patient-nurse interactions. Her conclusions about the nursing process were published in 1962 as The Dynamic Nurse-Patient Relationship. This book has been since translated into 12 different languages and still is a major nursing literature piece today (Tyra, ...

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...ors, supervisors, and hospital nursing staff in providing them with a foundation in the process involved in understanding their patients and how to address their need for help. Today, Orlando’s theory has provided considerable assets to the field of nursing such as “increased effectiveness in meeting patient needs, improved decision-making skills, more effective resolution of staff and staff-physician conflicts, and more positive nursing identity and unity” (Tyra, 2008, p. 231). Orlando’s Theory is focused on the importance of maintaining a positive nurse-patient relationship, the usefulness of validating the nurse’s perception, and how the nursing process is used to achieve positive outcomes or the improvement of patient care. Ida Orlando and her theory of Deliberative Nursing has greatly influenced how nurses today help to alleviate the distress of their patients.

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