Case-Assignment: Non-nursing Theory

Case-Assignment: Non-nursing Theory
Case-Assignment: Non-nursing Theory
Case-Assignment: Non-nursing Theory
Week 5 discussion Borrowed (non-nursing) Theories Applied to the Nursing Profession While the focus of this course is nursing theory, frequently the use of non-nursing or borrowed theories occurs. Select a nursing practice area (i.e. education, executive, advance clinical practice, informatics, and health care policy); then identify a non-nursing (borrowed) theory; and apply it to the area you have selected. Be sure to provide an example of how the non-nursing theory can be used to enhance the selected practice area. Don’t forget to include scholarly reference(s) to support your information.While the focus of this course is nursing theory, frequently the use of non-nursing or borrowed theories occurs. Select a nursing practice area (i.e. education, executive, advance clinical practice, informatics, and health care policy); then identify a non-nursing (borrowed) theory; and apply it to the area you have selected. Be sure to provide an example of how the non-nursing theory can be used to enhance the selected practice area. Don’t forget to include scholarly reference(s) to support your information.While caring for patient nurses often learning and using nursing theory as a great resource, there are many theories that not specific for nurses but still provides valuable and useable information. My selected nursing practice is Nurse Practitioner (NP). NP is advanced practice registered nurses that work auto-mostly and collaborate with other healthcare professionals to provide patient focused care (Woten & Karakashian, 2017). NP help patient and their family in managing illnesses, provide education on prevention care, conduct checkup, making sure that patient is safe. NP using nursing theories in their practice to promote patient care, increase knowledge and skills and may also use theories that not consider nursing theory such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow’s theory focuses on the idea that human act toward goals which mean that any behavior could satisfy many functions at the same time, for example, going to the gym might help patient with social interaction, self-esteem and improve health (Mennella & Holle, 2017). Maslow’s hierarchy of needs have five levels that includes self-actualization, self-esteem, belonginess, safety and physiological needs. Nurses applying Maslow’s theory in their practice even when it is not a nursing theory.