Cecilia LaurenteTheory of Nursing

Practice and Career

NURSING THEORY
"Categorization of Nursing Activities as Observed in Medical-Surgical Ward Units in Selected Government and Private Hospitals in
Metro Manila"
THEORY OF NURSING PRACTICE AND CAREER
❖The theory was from her study, the Categorization of Nursing Activities as Observed in Medical-Surgical Ward Units in selected
Government and Private Hospitals in Metro Manila, which was conducted from January to June year 1987
❖In the recent study of Laurente she states that the other entry point of helping the patient is through the family, when nurses can be of
great assistance to prevent at the very beginning serious complications. The nurse can help strengthen the family’s term of knowledge,
skills, and attitude through effective communication, employed informative, psycho therapeutic, modeling, behavioral, cognitive-
behavioral, and/or hypnotic techniques are summarized and evaluated

Concepts of Enhancing and

Predisposing Factor
the Theory ❖What is a predisposing Factor?
➢Predisposing factors are defined in these
models as factors that exert their effects
prior to a behavior occurring, by increasing
or decreasing a person or population’s
What is motivation to undertake that particular
behaviour.
“Anxiety”?

 Presence
PredisPosing Factors
➢Person to person
➢Age
contact between the
➢Sex
client and the nurses
➢Civil Status
A mental  Concern ➢Educational Status
state of fear ➢Development in the ➢Length of Work
time though mutual trust
or between the nurse and
➢Experience

nervousness the patient enhancing Factor

about what  Stimulation ➢One’s caring experience, beliefs and
might happen ➢Nurse stimulation attitude
through words tops the ➢Feeling good about
powerful resources of ➢Learning at school
energy of person for ➢What patients tell about the nurse coping
healing
 Freslyn Lim - Saco
 Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree in 2004
 Masters in Nursing Major in Nursing Administration in 2011 at Silliman University
 Currently taking PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) at Silliman University
 Staff nurse in Pediatrics department, the Intensive Care Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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 Principle of human interconnectedness of
energy .
 It leads to the understanding of holism
that the bio-psycho-social-spiritual
dimensions of persons are interrelated and
that the whole being is more than the sum
of its organs or systems.
 Principle of justice and fairness in human
caring across healthcare system .
 Fairness in access to health care related to
the situated context despite differences in
methods, utilization, and outcomes. .
 It also means fairness in access to services
within an organization
CHERRYJOY SANOSE
Principle of liberating the self and others from
the limits of human-space-time realities.
Human Factors .
 fear, shame, lack of communication skills,
lack of knowledge, powerlessness and
human resources.
Space Factors:
 Internal Environmental Factors
➤ physiologic, psychologic, emotional
and spiritual conditions
 External Environmental Factors
▸ socio-economic-political challenges
as well as the organizational dynamics that
influence the nurse and the nursed
Time Factor
Indicated by the constraints it has on

every person
 "When people transcend their own egos,
dedicate their energy to something
greater than the individual self, and learn
to build order against the trend of
disorder"
 It indicates personal growth of persons
and professional growth among nurses.
Nurses and the nursed can rise beyond

their present difficulties