ASIONG: Good afternoon everyone, this time, we will now present Laurente’s Theory of

Nursing Practice and Career. To start, we will introduce the theorist which is Cecilia M.
Laurente. Cecilia Laurente is a filipino nursing theorist, who focused her works primarily on
helping a patient through support systems, specifically the family. She worked as a staff nurse,
head nurse, and instructor through her career. She published a paper entitled, “Categorization of
Nursing Activities as Observed in Medical-Surgical Ward Units in Selected Government and
Private Hospitals in Metro Manila”.
ASIONG: As the theoretical source of Cecila Laurente in her theory is from her own published
paper entitled “Categorization of Nursing Activities as Observed in Medical-Surgical Ward
Units in Selected Government and Private Hospitals in Metro Manila”.
Communication is the key when getting nurses to engage patients and families in their care.
Research develops the guide found that communication gaps between patients and caregiver can
occur when hospitals do not address the issues that patients think are most important. Another
factor is the available tools to give health providers insights into the patient’s needs and
concerns.
As a result, effort by patients, families, and health providers to communicate more effectively
with each other can fall short of their goal. Each strategy includes educational tools and
resources for patients training materials for care professionals and real-world examples that show
how strategies are being implemented in hospital settings.
ASIONG: Strategies describe how patient and families, working with hospital staff can: be
advisors; promote better communication at the bedsides improve better quality; participate in
bedside shift reports; and prepare to leave the hospital.
CULLIAO: Next, we will tackle about the major concepts and definitions of the theory. In her
theory of nursing practice, she emphasized effective communication can be championed using
the family as an entry point to help a patient, whereas nurses can be a great assistance to prevent
serious complication at the very beginning. Nursing can help strengthen the family’s term of
knowledge, skills, and attitude through effective communication, employed informative,
psychotherapeutic, modeling, behavioral, and hypnotic techniques are summarized and
evaluated.
Anxiety: It is a mental state of fear or nervousness about what might happen. Some sources are
traumatic experiences, illness, stress from work and etc.
Nursing caring behavior that affect patient’s Anxiety: (Nurses’ behavior can affect patient’s
feelings, behaviors and even thoughts. At some point, nurses can encounter a discord with the
patient and patient’s family. Anxiety can be a basis of conflict within the healthcare setting,
though this depends on how the nurses will cope up or handle the situation.)
Presence: Person to person contact between the client and the nurse. It conveys relational and
support message. This reinforces security and warmth in relationship.
Concern: Development in the time through mutual trust between the nurse and patient. (It
reflects that the nurse views the client as a person with feelings and dignity. Concern for the
patient is founded on the reverence for life, love to self and others.)
Stimulation: Nurse stimulation through words, tops the powerful resources of energy of person
for healing. (There are expressions of confidence in client’s ability to mobilize his/her own
resources of energy. To regain sense of control ad active participation towards recovery.)
Predisposing Factors: Defined (in this model) as factors that exert their effects prior to a behavior
occurring, by increasing or decreasing a person or population’s motivation to undertake that
particular behavior. The nurse profile that affects caring behavior could be age, sex, civil status,
educational background, length of work and experience.
Enhancing Factors: strategies which describe how patient and family work with the hospital
staff. Communication, One’s caring experience, beliefs, and attitude. This exemplify the
enhancing factors of how the nurse take care of the client. Feeling good about work. Like asking
“How do you feel about your work?” Learning caring at school. As a student nurse, we are
thought about the different caring interventions and nursing procedures. And lastly, what patients
tell about the nurse coping mechanism to problem encountered.
OWAYET: Now, let’s proceed to the framework of the theory. So, we said that predisposing
factors are what exert their effects prior to a behavior occurring, by increasing or decreasing a
person or population’s motivation to undertake that particular behavior. While enhancing factors
are strategies which describe how patient and family work with the hospital staff. So, any
combination now of this characteristic comprises the nurse’s caring behavior which is the
presence, concern, and stimulation. With these characteristics, the client may feel that although
they are ill, there is someone, the nurse, whom they can entrust their whole being. It can be
concluded that nurses caring behaviors have impact on the well-being of the clients that go
beyond physiologic responses. They feel that they are cared for by nurses, not merely to improve
their nutritional status or maintain fluid and electrolyte balance but to boost their personhood and
dignity.
Now let’s move to the theoretical assertion. In her theory of nursing practice, she emphasized
effective communication can be championed using the family as an entry point to help a patient,
where as nurses can be a great assistance to prevent serious complication at the very beginning.
Nursing can help strengthen the family’s term of knowledge, skills, and attitude through
effective communication, employed informative, psychotherapeutic, modeling, behavioral, and
hypnotic techniques are summarized and evaluated.
So, Laurente’s Theory of Nursing Practice and Career as analyzed, it is simple, applicable and
specific. Laurente has categorized values like respect and patience that a nurse must have coming
from the input of the clients. The goal of Laurente’s theory of Nursing Practice and Career is
helpful in the faster recovery of the client because it was focused on helping patient through
support systems, especially the family.
ASIONG: As of the application of the theory, normally for the present application, before
anything else, when a nurse engages to a client, he should always “build a rapport” first to which
addressing the “anxiety” idea of Laurente. Coming from her research and getting the data out
from the client, a nurse would already know what characteristic to build to be able to address the
client holistically. It’s not all about caring the client physically but also emotionally, mentally
and even spiritually through the values categorized by Laurente. To finish up the presentation,
we will now present our own insights about the theory.