Home Healthcare

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The writer discusses that one of the most important factors promoting the importance of nursing in terms of patient wellness has been the development of favorable theories and educational programs, supporting the nurse as an integral part of the patient's wellness program. However, the writer maintains that the true power of nursing is in the recognition of the nurse's contribution to the healthcare system and the knowledge and complex decision-making skills that are necessary to care for patients. The writer mentions that although there are many nursing theories, albeit the Newman's system model, Leininger's Trans-cultural Model, The Orem Model or Orlando's Nursing Process Theory, part of this paper reflects upon the Watson model with respect to its place in nursing practice. The report also applies the basic tenets of these theories to a specific practice setting, namely nursing the elderly in the home healthcare environment.

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"According to Watson, her philosophical orientation is extremely existential, spiritual, and somewhat metaphysical. Watson describes nursing as an art and a human science with the major focus being the process of a human care for individuals, families and groups rather than on the sole tenet of academic expertise. Nevertheless, Watson also states that harmony is required among the three and that the nursing goal is to help people to reach which is accomplished through transpersonal relationship development.
Within the Theory of Human Caring, during the transpersonal caring moment, the nurse and the patient gain entry into the living knowledge of each other - similar to Benner's self-reflection stage. In order for transpersonal contact to occur both the caregiver and patient experience a process of being and becoming wherein both are influenced by the nature of transaction. Watson goes on to define human caring as a moral ideal and that the ideal will assure a certain needed behavior at the time of the caring occasion."

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