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Nursing Relevant Theories and Strategies

   

Added on  2021-04-21

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Running head: NURSINGRELEVANT THEORIES AND STRATEGIES FOR A SPECIFIC CLIENT CONTEXTName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1NURSINGPatient education is one of the most important roles for nursing professionals in today’s medical profession (de Boer, Delnoij & Rademakers, 2013). This practice is important as educating patients regarding their health concerns can make them more responsible for their ownhealth status. Hence, patient education should be comprehensive and easily understandable (Schulz & Nakamoto, 2013). There are different learning theories that can be used for such patient education and their health outcomes such as behaviorism, constructivist learning, social constructivism, cognitivism, connectivism and Humanism (Ikeda, 2014). In this assignment, discussion about the most appropriate teaching and learning theories will be done for teaching a 56-year-old patient regarding smoking cessation who is suffering from asthma. Meryl is 56-year-old woman, who had and history of asthma and now smokes more than eight cigarettes per day. She is financially stable hence having moderate socio economic status. She belongs to an English speaking community and by profession she is a schoolteacher. These details about Meryl determine that she is educated, financially stable and independent woman. However, despite having history of asthma she smokes cigarettes every day. Hence, learning education is an important aspect of nursing in this case as the theories of learning will help Merylto make understands that cigarette smoking is harmful for her health condition. The context of teaching will be delegating more responsibilities on the patient so that she can take care of our health. Secondly, using her knowledge about her health concerned and correct if she has any misconceptions. Finally, making sure that she understands the primary aspect of this learning education and support the healthcare process by implementing smoking suggestion (Ikeda, 2014).In this case, behaviorism theory is the most appropriate theory that can be used to teach Meryl and influence her to cease her smoking related habit. According to de Melo Ghisi et al.

2NURSING(2014) behaviorism is the learning theory in which the learner is passive and is meant to responding the environmental stimuli. In this learning process, the patient will be influenced to reshape her habits and for these purpose different rewards as well as punishments will be provided to her so that she can motivate herself everyday to case her smoking habit. In the context of Meryl, she is educated and knows about her health condition and asthma. However, due to environmental and habit related stimuli she smokes every day, hampering her health condition (Shoemaker et al., 2014). This condition can be influenced by her moderate socio economic status, as it does not inhibit her from smoking cigarettes. Further, as she works as a schoolteacher there are possibilities that her work related stress also influences her to smoke cigarettes. Therefore, behaviorism related nursing theory would be used, as it will start with observing the responses of Meryl to the environmental and surrounding stimuli and then will facilitate the process to determine the intended change (Schwartz, 2012). This is also important in this context as smoking is a behavior and hence, using behaviorism theory the habit will be influenced to be changed by enforcing some other habits in the personality of Meryl. Therefore, the three step of behaviorism theory applied to Meryl will be observation, imitation and reinforcement so that in the place of deleterious habits, she develops healthy and healthy habits by making changes in her behavior (de Melo Ghisi et al., 2014). To understand the effect of behaviorism theory in this context of Meryl and her smoking cessation related condition, several recent literatures and their results should be mentioned in thissection. In a study by Aliakbari et al. (2015), the purpose of the researchers was to understand the most effective learning strategies that are used by different nursing professionals around the world and for that purpose, they conducted systematic review. It was found that behaviorism theory was the dominant psychological approach for the observation and change implementation

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