Question

For this discussion, in three to four paragraphs, contrast two nursing models and theories found in your reading. Discuss how they are similar or different in the way the define/discuss health and wellness, illness, the client, the environment, and nursing. Summarize by selecting the one model or theory that aligns best with your beliefs and then describe how this would affect the way in which you would practice nursing.

Notes That might help: the books we use for this Dimensions of nursing class are Nursing Now! Today's Issues, Tomorrow's Trends 7th edition by Joseph T Catalano. The other book we use for this class is Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment 7th edition by Rosalinda Alfaro-Lefevre.

Also my beliefs about nursing are to treat patients how you would your family members and close friends that you love the most regardless of who the patient is. I hope these notes help.

Please cite source in APA format. (Source should be one of the books I listed)

Answer 1

Health & wellness

Traditionally hea & welllth has been defined in the term of the Presence or absence of disease.

A series of successful and continuous adaptation to a continuously changing environment.

The conditions of being sound in body, mind or spirit and especially free from physical disease or pain.

Soundness of body or mind; that condition in which their functions are duly and efficiently discharge..

"A state of relative equilibrium of body, form and function which result from its successful dynamic adjustment to forces tending to disturb it. It is not passive interplay between body substance and forces impinging upon it but an active response of body forces working towards readjustment."

According to the Nightingale – "Health is a state of being well and using every power of the individual processes to the fullest extent.

According to the WHO "Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease"

Wellness

Wellness is a state of well-being. It is an active process by which an individual progresses towards maximum potential possible, regardless of current state of health.

Basic aspects include:

Self-responsibility

An ultimate goal

A dynamic, growing process

Daily decision-making in areas related to health

Whole being of the individual.

Nursing theories are organized bodies of knowledge to define what nursing is, what nurses do, and why do they do it. Nursing theories provide a way to define nursing as a unique discipline that is separate from other disciplines (e.g., medicine). It is a framework of concepts and purposes intended to guide the practice of nursing at a more concrete and specific level.

Nursing, as a profession, is committed to recognizing its own unparalleled body of knowledge vital to nursing practice—nursing science. To distinguish this foundation of knowledge, nurses need to identify, develop, and understand concepts and theories in line with nursing. As a science, nursing is based on the theory of what nursing is, what nurses do, and why. Nursing is a unique discipline and is separate from medicine. It has its own body of knowledge on which delivery of care is based.