Proposal for an Ideal Nursing Environment Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper relates that the model or ideal nursing environment is partially based in a real-life rehab facility which exemplifies client centered care, empowerment, and transformational leadership and illustrates how these concepts combine to result in nurse, patient, and family satisfaction. The paper relates that the philosophy is a combination of three nurse theorists, the main one being Watson. The paper discusses how client centered care and empowerment work together and the overall theme of the model is that every client has strengths and nurses begin with those strengths along with the client's beliefs and values. The paper relates that nurses are empowered and receive full support from the organization; nurses, in turn, support clients nd provide them with information so that they are empowered. The paper discusses how the internal and external environments on the unit are seen as interacting, and this is a combination of Nightingale's and Watson's theories. The paper notes that the inner environment of the client is understood as architecture that is influenced by the bright and mentally and spiritually attractive outer environment and the unit is marked by a high level of collaboration among nurses and with other care providers, which is reflected in high levels of client participation, and has its source in the attitude at the organizational level. The paper shows how basically this model is effective because transformational leadership and the empowerment pervade every level. "