NSE11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nursing Process
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Week 6: compare and contrast the 4 nursing theorists" views of nursing. Benner and wrubel: describes caring as the essence of professional nursing practice. Caring means concern about a person, events, projects and things. How to relate to others" concerns with a respectful, responsive and supportive. They also describe the relationship between health, illness and disease. Health is not the absence of illness, nor is illness identical to disease. Health is a state of being that people define in relation to their own values, personality, and lifestyle. Leininger: from a transcultural perspective, described the concept of care as the essence and the central, unifying, and dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines. Care is an essential human need, necessary to the health and survival of all individuals. Care, unlike cure, assists an individual or group in improving a human condition. Leininger stressed the importance of understanding cultural caring behaviours and other cultural aspects of care.
