NURSING META-PARADIGMS

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Nursing meta-paradigms

Nursing is a very crucial area of study in treating, taking care of, and maintaining the health of humanity. This is a field that is very important in the manner in which human beings get to heal faster. This is because it is a field that combines several practices all aimed at making a sick person or even the one who is not sick but in need of attention feel better faster. On the other hand, a meta-paradigm is a set of ideas and theories on how a certain discipline should be functioning. Therefore the meta-paradigms within the nursing act provide a structure of how nursing should be practiced and the tenets to be emphasized. Therefore within nursing, the meta-paradigm involves 4 concepts that are very essential in making sure that nursing is done in the perfect and the desired manner for the best results which generally are to alleviate the pain of the patient and aid in their healing. Therefore herein this paper discusses the four concepts of the meta-paradigm of nursing which are the person, the environment, health, and nursing along with their importance and effect on the general nursing field.

The concept of environment is important as it directly affects the ease of patient recovery as well as how easy it gets for the people around the person to provide the necessary care. Therefore the environment can be healing in itself or it can even devastate the effects of the disease or illness which afflicts the person who is ill (Hegge, 2013). For example, if a person receiving treatment at home whereby they have the love and the care for those people who are beloved it becomes easy for them to heal faster than if left in a hospital whereby it is very lonely and the nurse or the doctor only comes to administer the nurses with medicine. Watson was a major proponent of this concept of nursing meta-paradigm (Watson, & Woodward, 2020).

The patient is the main focus and the most important aspect of the healthcare system. Jean Watson, Dorothea Orem, and Florence nightingale all had different perspectives when it comes to patients. However, they shared a common aspect which is the definition that each of all the patients treated is unique and has to be cared for as an individual. Health is also a very important concept which is a part of the nursing meta-paradigm and therefore very important. Different theorists like Watson believed that the health of an individual included not just the physiological process but even more aspects like mind, soul, body, spirits and so much more (Watson, 2007). Nursing is defined as the caregiving process which aids in the healing of the individual and it is very important as it provides the patient with all the necessary conditions for him/her to regain the health which had existed before.

The definition of nursing from my perspective is caregiving whereby it does not always have to be at the hospital. Even those caregivers who are at home like parents when a child is sick can be referred to as nurses. The patient can be said to be anyone in need of nursing services and who through the care and being looked after is likely to regain their health status. Health is the state of a person’s condition concerning illnesses and diseases and therefore this is what determines if that person needs nursing services. The environment is a very important aspect of nursing since it is the environment that determines how the nursing will work and be effective on the person to whom it is being administered to.

The University of Miami health facility has a philosophy that states that the basic thing about nursing is caring along with other philosophies believed and trusted to be the best major practices within the nursing field. This can be compared to the Benjamín León School of Nursing philosophy which states that the instruction and formation of nurse determine how effective they are in the job market and therefore this explains that their main goal and objective is to make sure that the formation of nurses is apt for the sake of making sure their productivity is also very high. These two philosophies are important since their goal and aim is to make sure that the patients receive the best nursing services through the formation as well as caring as a basic concept of nursing.

In this paper, therefore, focusing on the basic concept of nursing which is caring for the patients we look closely into Miami Dade college school of nursing’s major philosophy which is formed as a backbone to nursing. Therefore it is true that these two are very crucial and very important when it comes to nursing as they culminate into the delivery and service productivity of the nursing field.

In conclusion therefore I can say that through this paper I have been able to experience satisfaction by learning and knowing about the different philosophies and how they apply to different times and practices within the nursing field. I also learned about what I value most in the meta-paradigms and what the environment is. The concept of a caring nature and is formed in the best manner possible culminates into my understanding of nursing and how I will be able to practice what I learn. Therefore I have been able to connect with both philosophies however the one from the University of Miami health facility connects with me more easily as it teaches me that formation is important but caring nature is more important.

References

Hegge, M. (2013). Nightingale’s environmental theory. Nursing science quarterly, 26(3), 211-219.

University of Miami health system, philosophy statement (2021) https://umiamihealth.org/en/healthcare-professionals/nursing/about-umhc-nursing/our-mission,-vision,-values-and-philosophy#:~:text=We%20seek%20to%20provide%20excellence,innovative%20research%2C%20education%20and%20prevention. Accessed March 28th, 2021

Watson, J. (2007). Watson s theory of human caring and subjective living experiences: carative factors/Caritas processes as a disciplinary guide to the professional nursing practice. Texto & Contexto-Enfermagem, 16(1), 129-135.

Watson, J., & Woodward, T. K. (2020). Jean Watson’s theory of human caring. SAGE Publications Limited.