Nursing Practice

The Environmental theory of nursing informs the health care providers of using the environment in which a patient exists to assist them in their recovery. The nursing theory provides the framework where nurses can employ their canon of practice to ensure they administer health services to the patients that meet the conditions they have been taken ill in the medical facilities. The environment theory involves a nurse's initiative to evaluate the environmental settings to ensure the gradual restoration of patients' health and the external factors that may contribute to the health of the sick (Ozan & Okumu?, 2017). It is by regulating the conditions that will allow them to be in sustainable condition to recover from the various illnesses they have been admitted to getting medication. Hence, Watson's theory offers the concept that will ensure nurses provide holistic care to the patients while observing the environmental conditions that may contribute to their health condition and those that will facilitate their health to improve and have sustainable health. Therefore, this paper will evaluate a theory that can guide the nursing practice and help in supporting clinical practice with the involvement of evidence-based methods of offering the services.

Problem Inspiring the Theory Concepts

Patients are people in delicate situations, and assessing their environment to ensure they are supplied with sufficient services to improve their health condition is essential. The nursing practice effectively maintains the environmental conditions that will offer sustainability to the patients while on medication in the health facilities to catalyze their healing and recovery process. Thereby, issues such as; chemical safety, air pollution, climate change, natural disasters, diseases caused by microbes. Also, lack of access to health care, infrastructure issues, poor water quality, global environmental issue. These factors require evaluations and a selected few monitored by the nurses to ensure that the sick can recover by maintaining conditions that will be effective for recovery (Roy, 2018). Also, nurses are responsible for ensuring that there is enough comfort for the patients that will allow them to have an environment where their bodies can regroup and start functioning normally. Hence, the problems associated with patients' inability to understand the environmental factors that contribute to their illness and those that will facilitate their recovery process are some of the issues that the nurses need to address. It will allow the sick to have an ample environment that will facilitate their healing process (Nicholas & Breakey, 2017).

Most patients that are in-home care lack the nursing services expertise to ensure they can recover. Even though, while the patients are at their respective home care, they may receive the care of their loved ones. However, the nurses have a lack of medical skills to assess every environmental condition they exist and administer services that correspond to the needs that will sustain the patient to attain their healthy lives. Home care may offer the sick compassion, but it will not supply them with the needed skills provided by the nurses to ensure the environmental conditions are suitable for the sick to recover. For instance, the nurses can use evidence-based methods to ensure that the technique employed meets the needs of the patients (Roy, 2018). The knowledge is on how the patients need to maintain their environmental hygiene to prevent themselves from reinfection from various diseases that they suffer from and also watch on the chemical components that may compromise their healing process. Hence, the problems of the factors contributing to the health of patients. Also, those that slow the healing process of the sick informs the environmental theory. The nurses need to employ them through Watson's theory to care for the ill patients with compassion and skills that will hasten the healing processes and develop a relationship between the patients that those are offering them the health services.

The concept in Watson’s Theory of Care Representing the Nursing Outcome

Watson’s theory of caring has four major concepts which impart nursing knowledge to the professionals to help them offer the best services to the patients they are taking care of in the medical facilities. They include human beings as the patient requiring medical care to ensure they have a speedy recovery, health as the component that ensures the sick is in a stable condition, environment, society where the ill people exist, and nursing (Sitzman & Watson, 2018). Hence, Watson’s concept that influences the nursing outcome is the environmental issues that have significance in the recovery process that patients will need. It will enable them to have a sustainable niche to fight the disease they are suffering from and adapt to the conditions that may have negatively impacted their health. Thereby, the environment influences the nursing outcome since the environmental factors offer the patients the required resources. It will ensure that they can fight the disease of the factors that will make them susceptible to the disease-causing organisms that will make them unable to resist the infections that attack their bodies (Sitzman & Watson, 2018). Therefore, environmental factors need to be controlled by the nurses to ensure they can offer care that is compassionate and conforms to the conditions that a patient is subject to that will enable them to recover faster than in conditions that are not regulated.

Evidence-based methods effectively ensure nurses control the environmental factors to ensure the sick are subject to components that will positively impact their improving health conditions. Evidence-based methods ensure that the nurses can employ measures that have been tested to enable sick people to have the capacity to recover from their illnesses. The evidence-based methods help the nurses to employ the best-researched methods to make the patients have the ability to adapt to the environmental conditions which facilitate their recovery processes (Sitzman & Watson, 2018). The research allows the nurses to know to understand the environmental conditions suitable for the patients’ recovery. It is because the environmental studies are not within the scope of the nurse’s knowledge. Hence, they require the research to have the advanced knowledge to ensure they offer medical services to the patients, which are monitored and regulated to make the patients have all the necessary conditions to ensure their health state is improved.

Moreover, the environmental concepts need to be related to the evidence-based nursing skills to ensure an adequate outcome that will assure the patients that they will recover from their illnesses. Most patients suffering from terminal infections tend to be affected by environmental factors that slow their recovery processes. For instance, patients with cancer cannot fight diseases such as viral infections since they have pre-existing conditions that render their bodies weak to fight the micro-organism that causes the illnesses. Hence, the environmental conditions where such patients exist need to be assessed to ensure the care, they are provided with is comprehensive to assure the medical practitioners of the ability of the sick to recover (Pajnkihar et al., 2017). The nurses need to assess to ensure they have the pre-existing conditions in the places to offer guidance on how the people will relate to the factors and overcome any imminent adverse effect that may slow their recovery process. Also, the nurses need to offer the necessary information to the person offering home care to patients, which will guide them on the methods that will ensure the sick exist in a clean environment. It is where the disease-causing micro-organisms are eliminated or have reduced effectiveness to cause disease to the patients. Therefore, Watson’s theory of care which involves the environmental concept, improves the nursing outcome of the services involved in offering patients medical services.

 

 

Theoretical Outcome

The outcome of the environmental theory is designed to inform nurses of the significance of maintaining the environmental conditions at optimal conditions that will allow patients to recover from the diseases they are suffering. The environmental theory offers the nursing fraternity the possibility of ensuring they offer clinical expertise that will enable the sick to have a niche where they can recover progressively without having any setback that will increase the cost of offering medical services. The clinical expertise is aimed to ensure all the evidence-based methods are utilized to allow the patients to have informed care which will increase their chances of survival, especially for those suffering from terminal conditions (Pajnkihar et al., 2017). Also, the clinical expertise is designed to help the nurses to have controlled techniques of administering their services to the sick, which will be appreciated and allow them to develop their skills and knowledge to improve the means of providing care with compassion and skillful abilities. Therefore, the theory will enable the nurses to offer the health services to them based on their preferences and wants, primarily found in their environments, and reduce the chances of having the patients relocate from the environments they are adapted to and get to a new niche.

Conclusion

Nursing practices need to be guided with specific theories and techniques to ensure they can offer services that enable patients to recover from their illnesses. Watson's environmental concept offers the precedence of the needed concerns that need to be addressed by nurses to enable the sick to have sustainable conditions that will facilitate their healing process. The environmental factors contribute directly to the health of the sick, and nurses need to monitor, regulate, and advise the sick and the people taking care of the sick on the effective methods to ensure patients can adapt to their environments and recover from diseases. Therefore, environmental concepts increase the chances of having positive health outcomes for the patients under the nurses' care.

Nursing Practice: Outline

1. Introduction

• The Environmental theory of nursing informs the health care providers of using the environment in which a patient exists to assist them in their recovery.
• The nursing theory provides the framework where nurses can employ their canon of practice to ensure they administer health services to the patients that meet the conditions they have been taken ill in the medical facilities.

2. Problem Inspiring the Theory Concepts.

• Patients are people in delicate situations, and assessing their environment to ensure they are supplied with sufficient services to improve their health condition is essential.
• The nursing practice effectively maintains the environmental conditions that will offer sustainability to the patients while on medication in the health facilities to catalyze their healing and recovery process.

3. The concept in Watson’s Theory of Care Representing the Nursing Outcome.

• Watson’s theory of caring has four major concepts which impart nursing knowledge to the professionals to help them offer the best services to the patients they are taking care of in the medical facilities.
• They include human beings as the patient requiring medical care to ensure they have a speedy recovery, health as the component that ensures the sick is in a stable condition, environment, society where the ill people exist, and nursing.

4. Theoretical Outcome.

• The outcome of the environmental theory is designed to inform nurses of the significance of maintaining the environmental conditions at optimal conditions that will allow patients to recover from the diseases they are suffering.

5. Conclusion

• Nursing practices need to be guided with specific theories and techniques to ensure they can offer services that enable patients to recover from their illnesses.