Question

The future of healthcare is focused upon improving patient outcomes and patient satisfaction. Through the application of research studies and theory, evidence-based practice development will lead the profession of nursing into the future whereby knowledge and skills support the practice of providing quality care. Locate one nursing theory and one non-nursing theory. Describe how two practitioners can bring these separate theories together to provide meaningful patient care.

Answer 1

Answer: The healthcare professional indulge themselves in various research and methods to enhance the quality of care provided to the patients. They involve evidence based practice, nurisng and non nursing theories to improve their methods of treatment. The one of nursing theory that is the Florence Nightingale environmental theory states that the way or the act through which involving the environment to enhance the patient's health status. It means that proper care should includes such as hygiene, ventilation, personal cleaning and proper cleaning could result in improving the patient's health.

The non nursing theory which is also known as borrowed theory. One of the Maslow's theory includes that any act could improve the patient's mental status. For example if a person goes to the gym, it will increases the chances of social interaction, healthy weight and uplift the self esteem.

So, the both theory can be combined to enhance the methods of treatment. The focus on environmental conditions as well as increasing the self esteem of a patient could result patients to recover quickly.