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NURS 6531 Practicum Experience Journal 1.docx rsing theory Betty Neuman once said that sometimes the line of defense can be penetrated by external stressors, to which the base is shaken and it ca... n result in illness symptoms; when this occur, the line of resistance is activated in order to stabilize and therefore return to wellness in a process called “reconstitution” (Turner & Kaylor, 2015 p.214). I have been a nurse for many years now, each day I get up and think whose life will I save today and whose life will touch my soul. Always keeping in mind that the main objective is to improve health, promote and educate those whose structures has been shaking. As a new Nurse Practitioner (NP), I would like to incorporate Betty Neuman’s theory in my practice. She believed that a patient must be viewed as a unique system with its own built responses. During this first week of clinical I was able to see a variety of patients with various environmental factors. For example, I saw a husband and wife who came for a follow up appointment, the wife is wheelchair bound and the husband just had a stroke days before, the daughter brought both parents in and was aware of the medications and treatments that the parents were in. On the other hand, I saw a patient whose caregiver brought in and could [Show More]

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