Southern Luzon State

Duration: 90 min BSN 1 NCM 100

University

Theoretical Foundation
in Nursing
NCM 100

MARIA MELISSA R. TESALONA, RN, MPH

Instructor
Course Description

The course discussion explores the epistemology of nursing science, including historical perspectives, current concepts pertinent to nursing,
and impact of grand and
midrange nursing theories on the future of nursing practice.

Learning objectives Schedule

•1. Describe the historical development of the theoretical foundation
on nursing and related nursing history. Wednesday and Thursday 6:00-7:30 PM
•2. Discuss the different issues and trends in the foundation of
nursing.
•3. Develop a perspective on the scope, principles and concepts of
learning process in the theoretical foundation of nursing.
•4. Utilize the knowledge, skills and attitude in different views given
by various nursing theorists on person, health, environment and
nursing.
•5. Demonstrate understanding on the various non-nursing theories
as applies too nursing.
•6. Apply the concepts and principles in the care of clients utilizing
selected nursing theory and non-nursing theories.
•7. Describe selected competencies under the pertinent areas of
responsible nursing care.
•8. Demonstrate understanding of professional nursing practice.
 MODULE 1 5
min

EVOLUTION OF NURSING THEORY

OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this MODULE 1 the student will
be able to:
1. Annotate insights regarding Theoretical
foundation in Nursing
2. Explore the evolution of nursing theorist
according to historical Era’s of nursing search
for specialized knowledge
3. Demonstrates the significance of theory for
nursing as a division of education (the discipline)
and a specialized field of practice (the
profession).
2. Formation of the Solar System 15

Brief History of Nursing min

In essence, the nursing profession

has very much been around since the
beginning of time, though has
drastically evolved over the course of
history. Today, nurses are one of the
most important professions within
the health care industry and are
learned in a wide range of
occupational duties that are utilized
within a variety of settings
throughout the world. Here’s an in-
depth history of nursing and how it’s
progressed to the state where it’s at
today
Activity 1 (Group Work)

Instructions:

1. Group your class into 4 (Group 1,2,3 & 4)

2. Search brief history of nursing during this period:

 Period of Intuitive Nursing/Medieval Period (Group 1)

 Period of Apprentice Nursing/Middle Ages (Group 2)
 Period of Educated Nursing/Nightingale Era 19th-20th century (Group 3)
 Period of Contemporary Nursing/20th century (Group 4)

3. Present it in the class on our next meeting

4. Choose among your group who will present to the class

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Activity 1 (Group Work)
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

1. Albuero De Leon Gissele Jimenez Ortiz

2. Almojano De Leon Samantha Josef Revuelta

3. Barcelona De Los Reyes Kiskis Riparip

4. Buenaobra Faraon Mallan Sta Rosa

5. Calvelo Fontanares Nacario Tadiosa

6. Capina Garcia Nambio Tarray

7. Castro Habla Oira Untalan

8. Dano Hidalgo Orante Uriarte

9. Baretto Ginuel Anthony Asley Uyao

10. Macaalin
Period of Intuitive Nursing/Medieval Period

• Nursing was “untaught” and instinctive. It was performed of

compassion for others, out of the wish to help others.
• Nursing was a function that belonged to women. It was
viewed as a natural nurturing job for women. She is expected
to take good care of the children, the sick and the aged.
• No caregiving training is evident. It was based on experience
and observation.
• Primitive men believed that illness was caused by the
invasion of the victim’s body of evil spirits. They believed that
the medicine man, Shaman or witch doctor had the power to
heal by using white magic, hypnosis, charms, dances,
incantation, purgatives, massage, fire, water and herbs as a
mean of driving illness from the victim.
• Trephining – drilling a hole in the skull with a rock or stone
without anesthesia was a last resort to drive evil spirits from
the body of the afflicted.
Period of Apprentice Nursing/Middle Ages

 Care was done by crusaders, prisoners, religious orders

 Nursing care was performed without any formal education and by
people who were directed by more experienced nurses (on the job
training). This kind of nursing was developed by religious orders of the
Christian Church.
 Nursing went down to the lowest level
 Wrath/anger of Protestantism confiscated properties of hospitals and
schools connected with Roman Catholicism.
 Nurses fled their lives; soon there was shortage of people to care for the
sick
 Hundreds of Hospitals closed; there was no provision for the sick, no
one to care for the sick
 Nursing became the work of the least desirable of women –
prostitutes, alcoholics, prisoners
 Pastor Theodore Fliedner and his wife, Frederika established the
Kaiserswerth Institute for the training of Deaconesses (the 1st formal
training school for nurses) in Germany.
 This was where Florence Nightingale received her 3-month course of
study in nursing.
Period of Educated Nursing/Nightingale Era 19th-20th
century
 The development of nursing during this period was strongly influenced by:
1. trends resulting from wars – Crimean, civil war
2. arousal of social consciousness
3. Increased educational opportunities offered to women.
 Florence Nightingale was asked by Sir Sidney Herbert of the British War
Department to recruit female nurses to provide care for the sick and injured in the
Crimean War.
 In 1860, The Nightingale Training School of Nurses opened at St. Thomas Hospital
in London.
 The school served as a model for other training schools. Its graduates traveled to
other countries to manage hospitals and institute nurse-training programs.
 Nightingale focus vision of nursing Nightingale system was more on developing the
profession within hospitals. Nurses should be taught in hospitals associated with
medical schools and that the curriculum should include both theory and practice.
 It was the 1st school of nursing that provided both theory-based knowledge and
clinical skill building.
 Nursing evolved as an art and science
 Formal nursing education and nursing service begun
Facts about Florence Nightingale will be discussed on the Nursing Philosophies topic.
Period of Contemporary Nursing/20th century

 Licensure of nurses started

 Specialization of Hospital and diagnosis
 Training of Nurses in diploma program
 Development of baccalaureate and advance degree programs
 Scientific and technological development as well as social
changes marks this period.
1. Health is perceived as a fundamental human right
2. Nursing involvement in community health
3. Technological advances – disposable supplies and equipment’s
4. Expanded roles of nurses was developed
5. WHO was established by the United Nations
6. Aerospace Nursing was developed
7. Use of atomic energies for medical diagnosis, treatment
8. Computers were utilized-data collection, teaching, diagnosis,
inventory, payrolls, record keeping, and billing.
9. Use of sophisticated equipment for diagnosis and therapy
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