Using Nightingale's theory, the student would evaluate the nursing interventions for an 82-year-old hospitalized woman who wanted her pet dog to visit. Based on Nightingale's 13 canons, the student would consider the patient's request in light of ensuring ventilation, cleanliness, and comfort. Using Neuman's systems model, the student would assess a Hispanic family seeking care at a free clinic. This would include describing the family as an interconnected system, identifying stressors like low income and language barriers, and developing a culturally-sensitive plan to strengthen the family's flexibility in managing health issues. Considering King's theory of goals, roles, and perception, the student finds similarities in their

1. Discussion Applying Nursing Theory.
Discussion Applying Nursing Theory. Instructions:Select one (1) of the following scenarios
related to a specific nursing. Think about what you would do in the scenario presented and
post your ideas.Post two (2) discussion questions based on the readings along with your
answers.Discussion Applying Nursing Theory.ORDER A PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER
HERE TheoristScenarioFlorence NightengaleUsing Nightengale’s concepts of ventilation,
light, noise, and cleanliness, analyze the setting in which you are practicing nursing
(working as an employee or student).Using Nightengale’s theory, evaluate the nursing
interventions you have identified for an individual patient in your facility or
practice.ORYour hospital patient is an 82 year-old woman. She does not have immediate
family and has been living alone in her own home. Her hospitalization was unanticipated; it
followed a visit to the emergency room for a burn on her lower leg. The patient has been
hospitalized for 14 days. She pleads with you to allow her friend to bring her dog, a 16-year-
old Scotty Terrier, to the hospital. She tells you that none of the other nurses have listened
to her when she asked them about such a visit. Based on Nightingale’s model, and 13
cannon, what actions would you take for this patient?Discussion Applying Nursing
Theory.Betty NeumanMartina is a middle-aged Hispanic woman who brings her family to a
local free clinic to obtain medical care. She works part time in a restaurant for minimum
wage. She lives in a small apartment with her daughter and four preschool children; her
daughter speaks only very broken English. Martina’s medical diagnoses are hypertension,
arthritis, and depression.Use the Neuman System Model as a conceptual framework to
respond to the following:Describe the family as a system.How does the dominant Anglo
culture impact on the family’s stability as a system?What stressors (actual and potential)
threaten the family?What additional assessment data are needed related to Martina’s
medical diagnoses?What additional assessment data are needed related to the family’s
health status?How will cultural differences influence planning for prevention as
intervention at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels?Discussion Applying Nursing
Theory.ORUsing the Neuman System Model, organize a patient care conference in your
workplace to deal with a patient situation that has been difficult to manage. Involve
caregivers from nursing and at least one other disicpline to discuss each of the
following:What factors comprise the patient's normal and flexible lines of defense and lines
of resistance?What stressors are causing the problems with this patitent? What is the
patient's reaction to the stressor? What is each discipline's perspective on the problem or
isssues that are involved?How is the situation influenced by the patient's family system? By

2. the patient's environment?What would be the ideal coutocme in this situation from each
discipline's perspective? From the patient's perspective?What goals would be appropariate
to neogotiate with the patient?What primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention-as-
interventions would support attainment of these goals?Discussion Applying Nursing
Theory.Imogene KingThink about and write your personal definitions of environment,
health, nursing, and person. (Do these sound familiar to you?). Compare your definitions
with King’s definitions. How are they similar? How are they different? Are they more alike
than different? If they are more alike, develop a plan to use King’s framework and theory
more extensively in your paper (and practice).ORDoes the philosophy of one of the agencies
in which you have practiced encourage the involvement of the patients in their care? If so,
does mutual goal setting occur? If not, what changes would you suggest to promote more
active involvement of the patients in their own care?Analyze an interaction you have had
with a patient. Were you able to achieve a transaction as King describes it? If so, think about
what you did differently with this person? If not, think about the interaction and try to
identify why the transaction was not achieved?Discussion Applying Nursing
Theory.Hildegard PeplauDuring the therapeutic relationship, patients may distort their
perceptions of others. Therefore they may relate to the nurse not on the basis of the nurse’s
realistic attributes, but wholly or chiefly on the basis of interpersonal relationships existing
in their environment. With the patient and nurse roles you have described above, discuss
how these distorted perceptions may affect the patient’s care and the nurse-patient
relationship.ORConsidering the nurse-patient relationship created in question #1 above,
discuss the phases and the changing roles that would be considered when working with this
patient. Consider experiences in which you would 0r/and would not be able to accomplish
the appropriate goals for each phase of the nurse-patient relationship.Discussion Applying
Nursing Theory.Madeleine LeiningerDiscuss the usefulness of the Culture Care: Diversity
and Universality Theory in the 21st Century to discover nursing knowledge and to provide
culturally congruent care. Take into consideration the current trends of consumers of
healthcare, cultural diversity factors, and changes in medical and nursing school curricula.
Listed below are some examples of trends and changes you may want to consider in your
discussion:The importance of transcultural nursing knowledge in an increasingly diverse
worldAn increase of lay support groups to provide information and sharing of experiences
and support for patients and/or families experiencing chronic, terminal, or life-threatening
illnesses or treatment modalities from diverse and similar (common) cultures.Use of
cultural values, beliefs, health practices, and research knowledge in undergraduate,
alternative medicine, herbs, vitamins, minerals, and other over-the-counter medications,
which demand a transcultural knowledge base.Discussion Applying Nursing Theory.