The purpose of this assignment is to facilitate an integrated understanding of caring as foundational to advanced nursing practice. This paper is an expression of scholarly and aesthetic understanding of caring in nursing, integrating a lived experience, a theoretical perspective, and scholarly artful communication of a synthesized whole picture that is personally relevant and professionally sound. Going back and reading some of the nursing situations in the Nursing Case Studies in Caring book will enhance the quality of your nursing situation and your scholarly paper. They are beautiful examples written by your peers when they took this class.

Question Answered step-by-step Purpose:  Process: 1. NursingThe purpose of this assignment is to facilitate an integrated understanding of caring as foundational to advanced nursing practice. This paper is an expression of scholarly and aesthetic understanding of caring in nursing, integrating a lived experience, a theoretical perspective, and scholarly artful communication of a synthesized whole picture that is personally relevant and professionally sound. Going back and reading some of the nursing situations in the Nursing Case Studies in Caring book will enhance the quality of your nursing situation and your scholarly paper. They are beautiful examples written by your peers when they took this class.Review your nursing situation from Module One. Specifically identify the ONE  Caring  concept using Mayeroff’s Caring Ingredients or Roach’s 6 Caring Attributes (6C’s) or other concepts of caring identified by theorists studied in this course. Examples: Hope, Trust, Authentic Presence, Caring Moment, Competence, Compassion, Conscience, Humility, Honesty, Knowing etc. (DO NOT USE MULTIPLE CONCEPTS).Identify the call for nursing and response for nursing. Discuss how a particular way of knowing or multiple ways of knowing guided your practice, such as empirical, personal, ethical, aesthetic, spiritual, socio-political, or unknowing. Use your nursing situation from this course. Nursing occurs in nursing situations: co-created lived experiences in which the caring between nurses and persons enhance well-being (FAU-CON Philosophy, 2012). 2. The Theoretical Perspective: Select a caring theory studied this term (Watson, Boykin & Schoenhofer, Locsin, Ray, Parker & Barry, Swanson, Leininger, Marlaine Smith, or Duffy) and describe how it guided your nursing. Describe the essential concepts of the theory and explain how these concepts are present in your nursing situation. Essential concepts include the elements of the metaparadigm: How did this theorist/theorists describe person, nursing, caring, and health. Many times these concepts are not spelled out, you may have to interpret them from the theorist’s work. Describe other concepts of the theory as well. Use primary sources (literature written by the theorist) to describe this theory as well as related sources written by others that explicate, extend, or affirm the specific theoretical perspective. Use a minimum of 3-4 primary (written by the theorist) and secondary references. The focus of this paper is more on how the theory guided your practice versus describing the theory. For example if you used Watson’s theory you don’t describe all ten caritas processes you identify the ones in your nursing situation and how you used them. 3. The Essence of Caring in the Nursing A. Identify and describe the central One-Word Caring Concept (the essence of caring) that was expressed in your selected nursing situation from Module 1.1. Describe the identified caring concept by drawing upon sources from the literature and describe how the identified Caring Concept reflects the theoretical perspective used in your paper. While there is no magic number of reference sources needed to properly explicate the caring concept you have selected from your Nursing Situation, a minimum of 3-4 sources is adequate to achieve the task effectively.  For example if you chose Watson’s theory and your concept was Love then define how other nursing theorists define the same concept. 4. Personal Relevance A. Write a concluding paragraph addressing the relevance of practicing nursing from a theoretical perspective of caring and describing your personal understanding of caring as foundational to advanced nursing knowledge; be direct and specific and use the first person, “I” .1. How will you integrate this new understanding into your practice of nursing, your life at home, and in your community? This is all about you so no references or direct quotes should be included in this paragraph).    Health Science Science Nursing NUR 4639L Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)