Locsin's Technological Competency as Caring

Summary

Only the TCCN (Locsin, 2005), a middle-range nursing theory, directly addresses technical knowing
within the peaceful cohabitation of nursing, technology, and care. The essential components of this
practice theory’s “knowing individuals” focus are technical knowing, designing, and participatory
engaging.

Sample Situation

The patient in room 18 has been discharged, but she asked for the contact of the hospital in case she
experiences some illness through her kidney surgery. The nurse gave the hospital contact so that the
patient could contact the hospital for further questions.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

To model nursing practice from a caring perspective, his theory is crucial. This article demonstrates how
to practice excellent nursing in a technological age.

Von Bertalanff'ys General System Theory

Summary

A system is a collection of interconnected elements, according to von Bertalanffy (1968), and it is

permeable to and responsive to its surroundings. They can also emerge with qualitatively new
properties, which means they are constantly evolving.

Sample Situation

Drake was a victim of a car accident, in which he broke his leg. All he needed to do was to have therapy
to make it okay, but he refused to have therapy with the nurse since he was thinking about the current
hospital bill and if he got therapy his money couldn’t afford it.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

Nurses will discover that we can only fully comprehend the whole and how it functions by taking a close
look at all of its components.
Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness

Summary

Despite the fact that Newman began with a logical, empirical approach that was both inductive and
deductive, she felt it was very constrictive and “not consistent with the paradigm from which the theory
was taken” (1997a, p. 23). With time, her mt disrupt work changed, becoming more interactive and
integrative while maintaining its objectivity and control. She started to see that nursing practice was at
the heart of pattern and process when she abandoned the scientific paradigm with its objectivity and
control in favor of letting the principles of her theoretical paradigm direct her study. She realized that
the changing pattern in the process demanded a method based on mutual process rather than unbiased
observation. Expanding consciousness was tied to the quality and connectivity of interactions, according
to patterns. The participant’s understanding depended heavily on the nurse researcher’s imaginative
presence. According to Newman (1986), people “experience” a theory by doing it. Hermeneutic dialectic
was the name she gave to her studies. In nursing practice with a variety of individuals, family and
community situations, nursing education, practice models, and nursing research in the United States and
other countries of the world, the Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness and the research as
praxis method have been heavily utilized. Newman keeps writing, consulting, and lecturing to advance
her research.

Sample Situation

Alice is an 81-year-old widow who has lived alone since her husband’s death 8 years ago. Her income is
$824 monthly, and she requires several expensive prescriptions for arthritis, hypertension, and cardiac
problems. A visiting nurse uses pat- tern recognition to help Alice discover new potentials for action.
Alice’s past patterns have been those of independence and limiting social contact to mainly family
members. The nurse helps her explore sources of aid, in addition to the granddaughter, that may help Al
remain in her apartment independently. As Alice begins to build her own support system, she finds that
she relies on the nurse less for help.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

With the help of this theory, nurses will be better equipped to teach their patients how to harness their
innate power and reach higher states of consciousness.

Maslow's Human Needs Theory

Summary
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of motivation, a person’s behavior is determined by
five categories of basic human needs. These needs include those for physiology, safety, love and
belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

Sample Situation

A person who is lost in the woods is probably trying to meet their physical needs. They might be chilly,
thirsty, hungry, or without shelter. This person would most likely not be worried with their financial
stability or need to fit in with others.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

This theory serves as a reminder to nurses that a person’s basic requirements must be satisfied before
they can attempt to meet any higher level needs.

Lewin's Change Theory

Summary

The change model was created by Lewin to show how people respond to changes in their life. This
process includes three stages: unfreezing (the person already has a state), altering or moving toward
new ways of being, and finally refreezing into a new state.

Sample Situation

After being injured in a plane crash, Zein’s husband was found to have temporary amnesia. In an effort
to visit her husband, Zein hastened to the hospital. Her husband didn’t recognize her when she walked
into the room, so she introduced herself. This irked her husband. For her to be taken away from him, her
husband phoned the nurses. Zein was depressed, but instead of confronting her husband, she showed
him compassion and made plans for him to have counseling so that his memory would gradually return.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

Before implementing change, Lewin’s Change Management theory can help nurses navigate transitions
and pinpoint areas of strength and resistance.

Erikson's Psychosocial Development

Summary

The term “psychosocial development” is basically a fancy way of saying “how a person’s own needs
(psycho) connect with the needs or demands of society” (social). According to Erikson, a person
progresses through eight developmental stages that build on one another. We experience a crisis at
every step.

Sample Situation

An infant learns who their caretaker is and relies on them to change their diapers, make sure they eat at
regular intervals, and reassure them when they are upset or uncomfortable.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

This theory aids in analyzing symptomatic patient behavior in light of problematic past encounters and
difficulties with ongoing developmental tasks.

Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development

Summary

The moral growth of children is the subject of Kohlberg’s theory, which focuses on this process.
According to Kohlberg’s view, moral development takes place over the course of six stages. According to
the notion, pursuing and upholding justice should be the major goals of moral reasoning.

Sample Situation

Zoe was diagnosed with low hemoglobin. She is more than 1 week now in the hospital since her
recovery is not fast since she’s not cooperating. She’s not eating her food and doesn’t sleep as early. Her
mom makes a deal with her that if she gets well, they will have a vacation trip to her dream place, Japan.
After 2 days, Zoe’s condition changed to a better one.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

Because of this, nurses will be better equipped to uphold the stringent ethical standards expected of
them.

Carmelita Divinagracias COMPOSURE Model

Summary

The principles of holistic care, which cater to all aspects of wellness, whether they be bio-behavioral or
physiological, were inspired by COMPOSURE behaviors. A patient’s wellness outcome is achieved
through a variety of quality attributes of nurses. When administering to the client, nurses, in particular
advanced nurse practitioners, are to adopt the COMPOSURE conduct. When delivering care to the
patient, Divinagracia employs the COMPOSURE habit to promote wellness.

Significance of This Theory in the

Practice of Nursing Profession

The nursing profession can actively provide high-quality care through biobehavioral interventions like
“COMPUSURE BEHAVIOR” because everyone needs humane, caring, spiritually oriented interventions
that can promote wellness, regardless of creed, social class, gender, age, or nationality.

Carolina Agravante's CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Model

Summary

The CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Model has leadership ideas from a psycho-spiritual
perspective that are intended to cause a profound shift in a spiritual person’s apathy or indifference.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

Realign the goals of an organization’s members so that they are more sincere and compassionate in
giving care in the most moral manner possible, like a modern nurse should.

Letty G. Kuan’s Retirement and Role Discontinuity Model

Summary

Kuan values the impact of retirement as a stage of one’s life and the adjustments that go along with it in
her theory of retirement and role discontinuities. She determined what factors contributed to optimistic
views of retirement and optimistic responses to role discontinuities.
Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

Determined the factors that contribute to favorable retirement perceptions and favorable responses to
role discontinuities.

Carmencita M. Abaquin’s PREPARE ME Holistic Nursing Intervention

Summary

The nursing care offered to deal with the complex issues cancer patients face, which can be
administered in any environment where patients prefer to remain confined. Holistic nursing care is
emphasized in this program.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

This theory offers guidance on how to interact therapeutically with patients through touch, active
listening, and communication.

Cecilia Laurente's Theory of Nursing Practice and Career

Summary

The theory was based on her study, “Categorization of Nursing Activities as Observed in Medical-Surgical
Ward Units in Selected Government and Private Hospitals in Metro Manila,” which was carried out from
January to June 1987. In her most recent study, Laurente asserts that another route for aiding the
patient is through the family, where nurses can be of great help to avert serious complications at the
outset. Through excellent communication, the nurse can contribute to the family’s development of
knowledge, skills, and attitude. Summarized and assessed are the applied illuminating,
psychotherapeutic, modeling, behavioral, cognitive behavioral, and/or hypnotic procedures.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

This theory advocated using the patient’s family as a point of entrance and stressed efficient
communication.
Synchronicity in Human-Space-Time: A Theory of Nursing Engagement In a Global Community

Summary

The foundation of nursing’s creative process of engagement is synchronicity, which is expressed as

interpersonal relating, technology knowledge, rhythmical connecting, and transformational engaging.
Theoretical and philosophical viewpoints confirm the evolutionary design while reaffirming the
important human-caring interactions in nursing practice. Additionally, theory-based practice upholds the
human science perspective on the holistic nature of individuals while emphasizing the integration of the
coexistence of technology and compassion in nursing. Nursing practice takes a more holistic approach to
human care than the conventional, fragmented, and rote healthcare endeavor.

Significance of This Theory in the Practice of Nursing Profession

The innovative method of nursing engagement is supported by nursing and is reflected in interpersonal
relating, technical knowledge, rhythmical connecting, and transformational engaging.