The nurse must use their creativity to apply evidence-based practices to help the patient regain a state of health. A recent academic article highlights the need to apply evidence-based techniques in the education of nurses (Emerson & Records, 2008)
However, many forget that she was an administrator and made many changes that still hold true today. (Henry, Woods, & Nagelkerk, 1990)
These techniques are in traditional Nightingale fashion, combining theoretical classroom learning with practical application. Reflective journaling is still a part of the nursing training for modern nurses (Lasater & Nielsen, 2009)
Clinical nursing remains one of the most important elements of the nursing profession. A recent study found that nursing students often experience stress during clinical portions of their training, This study contends that education, the provision of mentors and mindfulness training is a key in reducing stress during clinical training (Moscaritiolo, 2009)
Training and experience are, of course, necessary to teach us, too, how to observe, how to think, what to think. (Nightingale, 1882, in Atwell, 1998)
Another study investigated how to teach critical thinking among RN to BSN student participating in a human patient simulation (Rush, Dyches, & Wakdrop, 2008). Patient simulator sessions are essential in learning to apply critical thinking skills learned in the classroom (Ravert, 2008)
A recent study found that nursing students often experience stress during clinical portions of their training, This study contends that education, the provision of mentors and mindfulness training is a key in reducing stress during clinical training (Moscaritiolo, 2009). Another study investigated how to teach critical thinking among RN to BSN student participating in a human patient simulation (Rush, Dyches, & Wakdrop, 2008)
She had a very real interaction with God and elements of her beliefs can be found throughout her writings. She had a Protestant work ethic and was inclusive of all people, not only the wealthy and upper society (Shaner, 2006)
In the past, however, nursing practice has, to a greater extent, relied on theories from other, related, disciplines such as medicine, psychology, and sociology, for guidance. Throughout the last century, however, there has been an increasing desire and willingness to develop theories that pertain specifically to nursing, and which are then able to provide a greater focus of guidance to nursing research, education, and practice (Herbert, p 32
The range of nursing theories ranges from directing the individual nurse in their interactions with the nursed, and influencing their personal beliefs on the purpose and goals of nursing, to providing a structure for the development and evaluation of the body of nursing knowledge, especially through research (Riehl-Sisca, 1989). Nursing possesses a rich history of individuals that have developed philosophies and theories, dating back to Florence Nightingale's implied 'Environmental Theory' of the 1860's (Marriner-Tomey, 1994, p 8)
Watson's Theory Of Nursing Florence Nightingale taught us that nursing theories describe and explain what is, and what is not, nursing" (Parker, 2001, p 4)
This is information which can be used to define nursing and nursing practice, provide principles on which to base nursing research and practice, and to guide nursing staff towards performing, and improving, their personal nursing education and practice. The range of nursing theories ranges from directing the individual nurse in their interactions with the nursed, and influencing their personal beliefs on the purpose and goals of nursing, to providing a structure for the development and evaluation of the body of nursing knowledge, especially through research (Riehl-Sisca, 1989)
Her theory, Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring, originated when she was requested to write a nursing textbook, in 1979, which she then refined within the 1985 publication, Nursing Science and Human Care: A Theory of Nursing. Other nursing theorists, such as Madeleine Leininger, in addition to the work of psychologist Carl Rogers, and studies that had been carried out in other sciences and humanities influenced Watson's theory (Watson, 1988)
Her theory, Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring, originated when she was requested to write a nursing textbook, in 1979, which she then refined within the 1985 publication, Nursing Science and Human Care: A Theory of Nursing. Other nursing theorists, such as Madeleine Leininger, in addition to the work of psychologist Carl Rogers, and studies that had been carried out in other sciences and humanities influenced Watson's theory (Watson, 1988)
Her theory, Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring, originated when she was requested to write a nursing textbook, in 1979, which she then refined within the 1985 publication, Nursing Science and Human Care: A Theory of Nursing. Other nursing theorists, such as Madeleine Leininger, in addition to the work of psychologist Carl Rogers, and studies that had been carried out in other sciences and humanities influenced Watson's theory (Watson, 1988)