Nursing Theorists Martha Rogers was an American nurse who used research and theorized how one should view nursing as both an art and a science while being aware of each individuals’ uniqueness. Born in 1914, Rogers rose through the career as well as degrees while obtaining her nursing experience in and outside of the field. While teaching as a professor in New York, Rogers developed her theory known as “The Science of Unitary Human Beings”. Throughout her career, Rogers created many different publications looking at both the artistic and scientific aspects. Within “The Science of Unitary Human Beings” and other written theories, Rogers explains how each unique being is an “irreducible, indivisible…energy field” and no patient and their issues are ever the same as someone previous or the …show more content…
Rogers, understanding this, tried to inspire those in nursing to no longer look at these patients are the parts of themselves that were ill, but to instead look towards their health and illnesses along with the person themselves as a whole. In a life that is so busy for everyone, it’s always been a refreshing moment when someone brings in the aspects that don’t necessarily apply to the reason of my visit, but are still important regardless. Rogers work in both pushing for a more ‘human’ understanding of our daily interactions as nurses is inspiring for the fact that it is simple but so easily overlooked that when someone finally does it, it brings that much more into the therapeutic relationship.
Overall, Rogers theory is relatable because everyone has experienced a moment when it seems that all someone wants to do is focus on one singular aspect of you. By being mindful of all these aspects to a synergistic relationship, Rogers has empowered future nurses with the open mindset going in and hopefully going out of a relationship as
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
I pray that the busyness of life, the tasks that need to be done, the science of healthcare, sleep deprivation, or monotony will never cloud the love and compassion that I have for people. Personally, I love making connections with people. I love giving people a chance to tell their stories. During my nursing practice, I foresee that I will do my best to be the most caring nurse possible. The responsibility lays within each individual nurse as to the level of caring and compassion that they bring to carrying out their nursing duties. I will continually choose to focus on the needs of my patients above my own. Displaying empathy, I will strive to put myself in each one of their shoes and make self-reflection a priority. I foresee that I will do whatever is within my power to enhance trust, comfort, happiness, and wellness for my patients. This may look like spending extra time with a patient, visiting a patient when I’m off-duty, providing emotional or spiritual resources to a patient, respecting a patient’s beliefs and values, providing for any physical needs or extra comfort measures, or just lending a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on. My patients will always know that they are not
During my career as a registered nurse I have had the privilege of caring for my patients at the bedside and meeting their needs holistically. Additionally, the safety of my patients is one of the most important aspects of my current role. The experience of advocating for my patients during my nursing career has taught me to place my patient’s health and wellbeing first. The second most important aspect of nursing that I have learned during my career is how to meet my patient’s needs as a whole, not just physically but also emotionally and psychologically applying the holistic approach to each patient. I believe that the patient’s needs
It reminds us that every patient is human, in some type of crisis, vulnerable to the environment, deserves respect, and is in need of skilled/knowledgeable nursing care. A nu...
Later Watson explained that this work was an attempt to solve some conceptual and empirical problems, with no intention to create a theory. This theory was expanded and formalized in her next book in 1985. Since then, Watson continued to refine her ideas through various publications. At this time, the major conceptual elements of the theory are ten Clinical Caritas Processes (originally Carative factors), Transpersonal Caring Relationship, Caring Moment/Occasion and Caring Consciousness. According to Watson’s theory, the human care process is performed through a Transpersonal Caring Relationship guided by the Carative factors, which are based on humanistic – altruistic value systems.
Mona Counts is a Nurse Practitioner at her own primary care facility. Her clinic provides health care to over five thousand patients who live in the heart of Appalachia. Bob Wilkinson is a Pediatric Oncology Nurse. Bob takes care of very sick children and their families. Ardis Bush started as a Staff Nurse over 25 years ago and worked her way up to being Nurse Manager. These nurses establish a rapport with their patients and their patients’ families by talking to them like normal human beings, and not just as patients. These nurses relate and listen to their patients, which makes them feel comfortable. Both Mona and Ardis even make house visits to check up on patients and to see how they are doing.
Annie Roberts, 32 years old, and Joseph Roberts, 28 years old, have been married for five years now. Their wedding day was magical, and they both envisioned a prosperous life together. During their five years of marriage, Annie gave birth to a two year old, AJ, and a four year old, Faith. However, for the past year, Annie and Joseph have been constantly arguing and very distant. Annie took it upon herself to hire a private investigator to look into her husband’s actions. What the private investigator discovered would change Annie’s life forever. Her husband has been living a double life for the past year with a new family and separate bank account. Annie was livid, and destruction was the only thing on her mind. She had also discovered that
Nursing’s development from an occupation to a profession follows the devotion and sacrifice of many amazing women throughout history. Considered to be one of the oldest professions, women have performed what could be considered nursing duties since the beginning of time. Although there have been many events and many individuals who have contributed to nursing’s evolution from the occupation it was once considered to the profession that now exists, the development of formal education opportunities and scholarly resources and the women who created them is what fascinates me most. Without knowing, each of the following five women helped lay the groundwork for what Lucie Kelly, RN, PhD, FAAN, eventually termed the eight characteristics of a profession
Watson’s Theory of Transpersonal Caring is considered a philosophy; therefore, it is very broad and general in scope. Included in the theory are ten caritas the nurse should practice promoting a meaningful nurse-patient relationship (Sitzman & Wright Eichelberger, 2017).
Watson views the concept of a human being as a person that should be valued, cared for, respected, nurtured, understood, and assisted (Nursing Theories, 2012). Every human being should be treated as a person instead of an object and receive the opportunity to have their distinct needs cared for. Health is viewed as a high level of physical, mental, and social functioning, ability to adapt and maintenance with daily living, and the lack of illness or the efforts that lead to the lack of (Nursing Theories, 2012). Watson’s theory believes that the environment determines the values that influence your behaviors and the goals you wish to pursue. It also influences how well a patient copes with the situation and how the nurse should be supportive and considerate towards the patient. Watson defines nursing as “a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human transactions” (Nursing Theories, 2012, para. 4). Nursing should be more than just providing medical care, it should establish a relationship and build trust. Watson’s other concepts of her theory include the caring occasion, transpersonal caring, phenomenal field, self, and
Virginia Henderson's principles are discernible in her interpretation of nurses' roles in humanity. She posits that nurses are uniquely positioned to render assistance to anyone regardless of the individual's health status in the fulfillment of activities that contribute to health or its recovery or at least, afford the individual comfort at his/her final hours. That is, the activities that the individual would have performed for self-had he/she the ability. Henderson in essence, succinctly provided a remarkable definition for nursing (Black, 2014).
While it may not have been a formal profession at first, nursing has been around since the start of human history. Beginning with heath practices that focused on magic and religion (Cherry & Jacob, 2017, p. 3), nursing has evolved to its current definition by the American Nurses Association (ANA) by expanding and changing its scope throughout history. Many different nursing pioneers and theorists have affected the definition of nursing, but there are two that have really stood out to me. The theories of Florence Nightingale and Jean Watson have helped shape the course of the profession of nursing, and have been instrumental in my understanding of the philosophy of nursing.
Virginia Henderson was known as a modern legend of nursing. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 30, 1897. Henderson graduated in 1921 from the Teachers College at Columbia University, for a Bachelor of Science degree, which she completed in 1931. She also earned a Master’s of Science degree in 1934 (Tlou, 2001). She wrote and edited numerous editions of the Principles and Practice of Nursing. Henderson’s main idea of nursing was that the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, either if they are sick or well.
She was able to identify individual’s needs, which carried forth in to her theory. She wanted to set standards and values that would meet the broad range of human needs, yet be able to recognize individual differences among patients (Anderson, 1999). Because Henderson was primarily a nurse educator, her theory focuses on the education of nurses. Her theory was created from both her education and practice, making her work appealing to both ends of the spectrum (McEwen & Wills, 2011). Her theory is focused on the needs of a patient but in Henderson also emphasizes the importance to continue education and research. She stresses the significance of constantly searching for the best solutions and practices for optimal patient care (Anderson,