Role of Nurses

Question 1

What does Nightingale believe is the role of the nurse? (Philosophy and Environmental Theory)

Answer 1

1. To prevent interruption in the reparative process (God’s)
   -provide optimal conditions for its enhancement
   -support a calm/reparative environment
2. To practice wholism, which is considering the patient’s environment, social factors, and situational factors

Question 2

What does Henderson believe is the role of the nurse? (Basic Human Needs Theory)

Answer 2

1. Assist patients in the performance of activities contributing to health and its recovery, or a peaceful death
2. Assist patients with activities that they would perform independently given the STRENGTH, WILL, or KNOWLEDGE
3. Help patients regain independence in completing the 14 basic humans needs

Question 3

What does Watson believe is the role of the nurse? (Theory of Human Caring Science)

Answer 3

1. Practice human caring science
2. Mediate health-illness experiences through professional, personal, scientific, aesthetic, and ethical connections/interactions/relationships
3. Be mindful, in-the-moment, committed caring, and mediate internal healing/evolving for self and patient

Question 4

Nurses aim to complete the goal of health promotion, while developing and implementing health promoting behaviors.
Empower and enhance capacity for self-care through education and personal development, with outcome of health promoting behaviors.

Answer 4

Pender’s Model of Health Promotion (Role of Nurse)

Question 5

Role of nursing is to enhance preparedness of the caregiver for death of the person with dementia.

Answer 5

Preparedness For End of Life: Dementia (Role of Nurse)

Question 6

What does Orem believe to be the role of the nurse? (Self-Care Theory)

Answer 6

To assist persons when self-care requisites exceed a person’s abilities.
Promote persons as self-care agents

Question 7

Role of nursing is to assist people to ATTAIN, maintain, and restore health by engaging in INTERACTIONS.
Outcome of nursing care and interactions is a TRANSACTION where values, needs, wants, goals are shared and planned for.

Answer 7

Role of Nursing according to King (Theory of Goal Attainment - Interaction-Based / GT or MR)

Question 8

Role of the nurse is to intentionally assess comfort needs and design comfort measures to address those needs.
Reassessment of comfort levels after implementation of comfort measures.
The outcome of effective/wholistic nursing care is comfort.

Answer 8

Kolcaba’s Role of Nurse (Comfort Theory - MR)

Question 9

Role of the nurse is to promote, encourage, or facilitate health outcomes during TRANSITIONS.
Outcome of nursing is that a person emerges from a nursing encounter better equipped to protect and promote health.

Answer 9

Meleis’ view of Role of Nurse (Transitions Theory - MR)

Question 10

Role of the nurse is to provide culture-specific and universal nursing care.
Promote well-being/health and help people face unfavorable human conditions, illness, or death in a CULTURALLY MEANINGFUL WAY.
Act as a bridge between folk/generic care and professional care.

Answer 10

Leininger’s Role of Nurse (Culture Care Theory - MR or GT / outcome-based)