Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career

Cecilia M. Laurente

Theory of Nursing Practice and Career

Person
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-Person to person contact between client and nurse
-Not Clearly Defined

Health
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-Provides insights into patient's needs and concerns
-Efforts by patients, families, and health providers to communicate more effectively with each other can be beneficial
-not clearly defined

Environment
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

Enhance the living environment of the patients by strengthening

Nursing
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

Work that is primarily on helping a patient through support systems, specifically focuses on communication in the family, not clearly defined

Major Concepts
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-Anxiety
-Presence
-Concern
-Stimulation
-Predisposing Factors
-Enhancing Factors

Anxiety
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

Mental state of fear of nervousness about that might happen

Presence
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-Person to Person contact between the clients and nurses, conveys relational and support messages
-Reinforces security and warmth in relationship

Concern
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-Development in the time through mutual trust between the nurse and the patient
-Reflects that the nurse view clients as a person with feeling and dignity
-Concern for patient is founded on the reverence for life, love, or others

Stimulation
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-Nurse stimulation through words, tops the powerful resources of energy of a person fr helping
-Expressions of confidence on clients ability to mobilize his/her own resources of energy
-To regain a sense of control and active participation towards energy

Predisposing Factors
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-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
-age
-sex
-civil status
-educational background
-experience
-length of work

Enhancing Factors
(Cecilia M. Laurente, Theory of Nursing Practice and Career)

-Intensify or increasing in quality; value in nursing practices in that particular behavior
-communication
-belief and attitude
-caring experience
-what patients disclose about the nurse
-learning about caring at school
-coping mechanism to problem encountered
-feeling good at work