NR 501 Week 5 Discussion: Analysis and Application of a Nursing Model
Dr. Drake and Class,
For this week’s analysis and application of a nursing model discussion assignment, I have chosen the Person-Centered Nursing Framework. Developed by McCormack and McCance in 2006, this model was a response to the evolving healthcare practices transitioning from treatment-driven plans to more holistic approaches (McCormack & McCance, 2017). The person-centered model addresses patients comprehensively, not just as diagnoses, fostering therapeutic relationships among care providers, patients, and their support systems. This model integrates care plans involving the patient, family, and community alongside the healthcare team. The focus is on healthcare being relationship-oriented, encompassing all relationships and contexts within the healthcare environment. The framework identifies four components: prerequisites for the nurse, the care environment in which care is delivered, person-centered processes, and expected outcomes.
Importance of Nursing Theory
Nursing theory was largely neglected after Florence Nightingale first defined nursing in 1860 with her seminal work, “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, What It Is Not” (Zborowsky, 2014). However, the development of nursing theory and models grew exponentially starting in the 1950s (McCrae, 2012). Early nurse theorists recognized the need to distinguish the profession from medicine and the traditional “handmaiden status.” The development of nursing theory was pivotal in establishing nursing as a “thinking profession” (McCrae, 2012). Continuing to develop nursing theory is essential for protecting and defining nursing as a profession rather than a discipline.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of nursing theory for the nursing profession, discuss Kristen Swanson’s Theory of Caring, and explain how this theory meets all four recognized relationships of the nursing metaparadigm and its application to the role of nurse practitioner.
