Description
Analyze and evaluate a middle-range theory. You will select a middle-range theory and identify the application of nursing theories into clinical practice. (Theory of Human Caring)
Content Requirements:
- Components of the theory
- Discuss the major concepts of the theory
- Philosophical basis or worldview change, advancing health
- Structural aspects of the theory
- Discuss the framework of the theory.
- Identify an area of your practice where this theory could be applicable
- What question does the theory help to answer?
- Describe the area of interest in relationship to the theory/theoretical model.
- Is it appropriate for the practice setting and is it applicable?
- Discuss the strength and weaknesses of the theory. If there is weakness, discuss what makes it difficult to be used in practice.
- Use of theory in clinical practice.
- Performing a literature review is essential to completing this section. If there is no literature available about the application of this theory in practice, address the reason(s) why based on your findings.
- Evaluation of theory
- Is this theory used to understand and apply to practice?
- What difficulties did you encounter or would anticipate encountering in using this theory?
- What would make this theory more usable or applicable to practice?
- What would make this theory more usable or applicable to practice?
Submission Instructions:
- The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
- The paper should be formatted per current APA 7th edition and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions.)
- The paper is to be 3 - 5 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract, and references page.
- Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to the current APA 7 edition style.
Explanation & Answer
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Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
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Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
The practice of nursing is interested in promoting health, caring for sick people, restoring
health and preventing illness. In other words, nursing focuses on diseases’ treatment and health
promotion. According to Jean Watson who developed the theory of human caring, caring is key
to the practice of nursing and supports health better than ordinary medical cures. She argues that
an all-inclusive approach to care is the core of the nursing caring practice. According to the
human caring theory, nurses can demonstrate and practice caring (Wei & Watson, 2019). This
caring can promote growth and improve patient and nurse outcomes.
Components of the Theory
Watson defined three metaparadigm nursing concepts in her theory. These include the
human beings or persons, nursing and health. She referred to human beings as valued persons to
be taken care of, nurtured, respected, assisted and understood (Ozan & Okumuş, 2017). A person
is considered to be greater than as well as different from a collection of his or her body parts.
Health is described as the highest level of physical, social and mental functioning. It’s the
absence of disease or the existence of efforts resulting in the lack or absence of disease. Nursing
is defined as a science of health-disease experiences mediated by personal, professional, ethical
and scientific care interactions (Ozan & Okumuş, 2017). Watson did not define the last
metaparadigm concept (that is, environment) but rather developed ten carative factors necessary
to the caring experience that requires to be managed by all nurses when providing care to
patients (Ozan & Okumuş, 2017).
Structural Aspects of the Theory
Management of relationships is an important part of patient engagement in...
