Grand View from the Middle-Range: Competency Assessment

Grand View from the Middle-Range: Competency Assessment

 Theories are one or more concepts that are interrelated to provide a systematized perspective of a prodigy, either evidence of reality or incident that is predictive also, explanatory. Based on assumptions, arguments can either be concepts, definitions, models, propositions. They are more than one relatively genuine and distinct concept that is deriving from a conceptual, the prepositions that narrowly describe those concepts, and the schemes that state relatively concrete and specific relations between two or more ideas (Butts &Rich, 2018).The design of Nursing theories models that are recurrently intended around the writer to represent their faith in the approach (Lancaster and Lancaster 1981). They are bodies of knowledge to define what nursing is, what nurses do, and why they do it. The theories of nursing targets to outline, foresee, and interpret the phenomenon of nursing (Chinn and Jacobs1978). This paper will focus on the competency Assessment of Grand View from the Middle-range nursing theories.

Grand theory of nursing indulges a conceptual architecture that determines the vital concepts and principles of the discipline. Unitary Human Beings Theory by Martha E. Rogers prospect nursing as both a science and an art. The conceptual ideas of Martha E. Rogers, as taught by her in the early 1980s, are here revisited as a celebration of 100 years since her birth and as a way to look at global or universe health nursing in the digital age (Baumann et al. 2014). The general nursing theory renders a course of action to view the unitary human being, who is constitutive to the natural world. Rogers’s nursing theory comprises of eight concepts. The steady change from lesser to higher frequency wave patterns (Rogers 1992),  her idea of resonancy, observes the first correlation of the concepts which is the transformation of energy waves from longer to lessened and the alternating frequency of those waves from lower to higher, evolving toward steady change in the science of unitary development of humankind as taught by Rogers. The next two correlations are rhythms and motion, where the similarities in patterns and organization over a period, swings, and rhythmicity provides some degree of assurance and predictability while observing that the pace of change is accelerating and nothing can redo itself.

The next two correlation is that time is dynamic in the sense that it changes from dragging to racing, to timelessness, and shorter life span to longer life to transcendence. Thanks to computers, time is broken into small fragments (Hardy 2014), the speed of communication has been on the increase leading to an elevation in activity level, and expansive engagement, the experience of time as racing and timelessness is prone to be associated with multitasking. The last two correlation of heaviness, to lightness to weightlessness, and pragmatic, to imaginative to visionary taught by Roger based on the assumption that the relationship between human and the universe unity is an unfolding open system that is not comparable in nature, heaviness, lightness and weightless is not seeing as suggesting to merely a physical matter, or any of the correlates mentioned above, to be regarded as a strictly linear progressions or growth.

Middle-Range Nursing Theory, developed by Robert K. Merton, gives the theoretical architecture that links, The Grand nursing theories with nursing practice. Pender’s health promotion model is a Predictive Middle-Range Nursing theory.  Pender’s model of health promotion is one of the nursing models that assist in forecasting health performance. The redone model basing is on social learning theory, which was qualified to determine the factors which link with exercise behavior, which is a health-promoting behavior that impacts personal intelligence and practice (Heydari & Khorashadizadeh 2014). The model incorporates three groups of factors that change health behavior: individual characteristics, Behavior-specific knowledge and affect, and instant behavioral eventualities. These factors affect health-promoting practices indirectly and directly as the model exhibits. The research basing on the social analytic theory of Bandura and the Theory of Value Expectancy occasioning in the progression of a model that describes, foretell, and qualifies forms of behavior that advance health.

Nursing evolution has passed a necessary stage, from subservient vocation to professional accountability. Models authored in the past decades ago are currently outdated, but it is still disputable (McKenna and Slevin 2008). The theories perceive as a continuous course, but also stress that during practice and broader society is changing; human needs are still even. The typical expression of theoretical stance considers nursing as practical, preferably to propositional knowledge and, therefore, not a theory of nursing (Liaschenko 2003).

The importance of a bounded body of theory in nursing is better patient care, improved professional status for nurses, efficient communication between nurses, and input for research and education (Nolan 1996). The nursing-caring protagonist is impossible to determine; having a theory is necessary to analyze and explain the roles of the nurses. The approach is crucial, considering it assist us in resolving what we know and what we need to know (Parsons 1949). It distinguishes what should form the basis of practice by explicitly describing nursing. The theory intends to depict, predict, and expound the phenomenon of nursing (Chinn and Jacobs, 1978).

References

Baumann, S. L., Wright, S. G., & Settecase-Wu, C. (2014). A Science of Unitary Human Beings Perspective of Global Health Nursing. Article in the Nursing Science Quarterly, 27(4), 325-327.

Heydari, A., & Khorashadizadeh, F. (2014). Pender’s Health Promotion Model In Medical Research. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 64(9), 1067-1069.