Roger's Theoretical Approach To Embrace The Nursing Process

The field of nursing has over its history become an area of great complexity as nurses are faced with many different settings and vast amount of data that must be processed and analyzed to provide the highest quality of care to each patient. It is because of this fact that nurses began to develop a theoretical approach to aid in completing the nursing process in a systemic and logical manner. Theory enables nurses to analyze patient situations quickly allowing for the establishment of a well-developed plan of care with appropriate interventions. This process is critical in visualizing patient outcomes as well as evaluating the effectiveness of the care that has been provided to allow for changes as necessary. With theory maintaining such

Consistency and clarity are of the upmost importance because words often have multiple meanings and definitions throughout various locations, so terms should be expressed plainly and precisely within the theories framework. In this case clarity is determined by two factors, how well the concepts of the theory are understood and how consistently the author philosophies are conceptualized. For this lecture we will define semantic clarity as the definitions within a theory that establishes meaning of the many concepts of the theory. Within Roger’s theory we see that she takes the time to provide may of the key definitions and concepts present within the theory such as energy fields, patterns, openness, and four-dimensionality. However, Roger’s definitions that are provided tend to be exceedingly wordy and very complex making it difficult to follow while reading. Furthermore, she fails to provide illustrations and the examples that are given do not yield further understanding. It is important to not however that she has taken the time to attempt to clarify some of the verbiage within the

Chinn and Kramer (1999) viewed importance as how closely linked concepts of certain theories were to clinical significance. The importance of Roger’s work to the field of is seen through the field of nursing. Many of her concepts that revolve around nurses creating a healing environment can still be seen in everyday patient care today. Her theory influences nurses to be aware of their actions and the effects each action may have on the healing process. Furthermore, we see that through her belief in individualized nursing services she aimed to produce concepts that could be applied to various areas such as practice, research, and education (Fawcett,