The Nursing Profession

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This paper studies the nursing profession, focusing on the role of nurses in helping patients to cope with chronic pain. The paper begins with a detailed background about the developing of nursing, including the main theories of health care provision, which are the Caring Model and the Developmental Model. Next, the paper examines patient care in out-patient or family settings. A discussion about healing techniques includes non-traditional methods such as as aromatherapy and informal talk therapy. The paper then presents a 2000 case study of 52 persons with hypertension in four health care units in Erzurum, Turkey in 2000. The patients and their families were visited by nurses once a week for blood pressure measurement for three months. The paper concludes that the Caring Model improved the quality of life of the hypertensive patients who participated in the study by decreasing blood pressure and increasing the quality of life.

Outline:
I. Background
II. The Theory in the Out-Patient/Family Setting
III. Case Study

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"It has been commonly viewed that those who choose a nursing career do so out of a desire to care for the sick and the needy (Vance 2003). Caring was the central concept, which gave rise to several caring theories, the two most prominent being the Leininger's Theory of cultural care and Jean Watson's Theory of human caring. Watson stressed that caring is a science, which is characterized by a humanitarian and human science orientation to human caring processes, phenomena and experiences. A caring science deals with being-in-relation and a world view of unity and connectedness of all creation. This transpersonal caring recognizes that unity of life and the connections that weave from the individual to others, the community, the planet and the universe. Inquiries into the caring science are reflective, subjective and interpretative, besides being objective-empirical. They also include ontological, philosophical, ethical, historical inquiries and take the form of multiple epistemological approaches to inquiry, such as clinical and empirical."

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