C304 Professional Roles and Values Task 1 - Professional Nursing Practice C304 Professi

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C304 Professional Roles and Values Task 1 - Professional Nursing Practice C304 Professional Roles and Values Task 1 - Professional Nursing Practice A. Identify a nursing theory that has influen... ced your values and goals. Its difficult to choose only one nursing theory that influences my values and goals. They have all impacted the scope and care I provide to my patients. I have to say the solid foundations laid forth by Florence Nightingales Environmental Theory and Hildegard Peplaus Theory of Interpersonal Relations have given life to my values and goals (Petiprin, 2016ab). Other theorists have expounded on various elements of these theories, but these women were pioneers and set forth the ground work for safe and patient-centered nursing care today. Although I blend both of these theories into my practice daily, Florence Nightingales Environmental Theory is the foundation of my values and goals. I believe balancing the patients environmental surroundings is the most important aspect of providing safe and quality care towards recovery. Without fresh air, pure water, sufficient nutrition, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light, patients would succumb to their illnesses (Petiprin, 2016a). A patients demise is not the basis for my nursing practice. A1. Explain how nurses apply the identified theory. Nightingale realized if a patients environment is out of balance, this puts the patient at an increased risk to expend unnecessary energies towards balancing his environment, thereby draining his or her energies for healing (Pira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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