Sample Assignment on Nursing PDF

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
NURSING ASSIGNMENT
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Concept of caring and history
Caring can be termed as a human behavior including the affective, cognitive,
psychomotor and the administrative skills within which nurse’s caring can be explained.
According to Florence Nightingale, the most important aspect of nursing is caring and
over the past few decades a lot of researches are being carried on to explain what caring is.
Although the concept of caring in the nursing profession is not unique, but the there is a
substantial existing knowledge related to caring in nursing (Ray & Turkel, 2014). Just as the role
of the nurses has changed over the years, the concept of caring have also changed with the
increasing number of consumers of the health care system. Previously the concept of nursing or
caring was only confined to the assisting the physician and assisting the patients in the hospitals
and the care homes. But with time, the concept of caring has evolved (Cook & Peden, 2017).
Nurses are now educators, scientists and practitioners meeting the complex needs of health care
consumers.
Patients and the families now require specialized knowledge, having specialized skills in
managing acute and the chronic illness and injury and can prescribe medications.
Nursing concept and ontological application
The critical theory of nursing was initially established by a group of professors of the
Institute of the social research. The critical theory of nursing depends upon the contextual
analysis of the phenomena (Campbell & Bunting, 1991). The Nursing professionals supporting
the critical theory emphasizes on the needs for improving the construction of the knowledge

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consisting of a liberating purpose and emancipating purpose. The critical theory in the nursing
concept implies that, once the theory has been imparted it should be put into practice for
accomplishing enhanced learning from the feedback. As per this theory the nurses should be able
to push their limits, leaving behind the technical, conventional, pathocentric, submissive
professional exercise. This dialectic vision of the health care science is in contradiction with the
concept of health (Mosqueda-Díaz et al., 2013). The concept of critical theory emphasis on the
nurses for considering the facets of the socio-cultural context while offering care to the patients,
that is developing the capacity to identify the social inequalities and then mitigate them with the
innovative application of the medical knowledge. The dialectic vision of the nursing helps to
provide concrete answers for approaching the diverse realities (Mill et al., 2001)
The complexity theory in nursing has emerged from the mathematically based discipline
of physics and is related to quantum physics. The complexity theory of nursing is a way to
understand the communities and the healthcare organization. It provides a framework that that is
holistic and much more realistic than the theoretical paradigm. It acknowledges the multiple
determinants that influences the health. The relationships are stressed above the discreet
components (Broom & Adams, 2012). As per this theory ‘caring” is an open and a dynamic and
system that takes energy from the needs of the society of the nursing care. Pattern is again a
word that is used in the complexity theory and it is this theory that studies the interrelationship
between the multiple components of the health care, interconnected portions weaved together to
give rise to a more complex form. As per the complexity theory the nurses function in a health
care system that is dynamic and is tangled within other complex systems. The concept of science
is converted in to arts as the nurse develops a broad knowledge base, communication skills, hand
on skills and a wide range of other components.