Introduction
Modern nurses know and implement numerous different frameworks into their clinical practice. From Nightingale to Henderson, these frameworks largely revolve around four pillars of nursing and assist in framing both clinical practice and clinical research by outlining goals and purposes of interventions, as well as providing an ethical and moral framework for a nurse to rely on. The purpose of this paper is to investigate Nola J. Pender’s Health Promotion Model and Rosemarie Rizzo Parse’s Human Becoming Theory, and their application in advanced nursing practice.
Nola J. Pender’s Health Promotion Model
Pender’s Health Promotion Model focuses on prevention of disease and health promotion. It acknowledges and identifies every patient’s uniqueness, and states that personal characteristics have a great influence on determination and outcomes of the nursing intervention. These variables include personal physiological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors (“Health Promotion Model”). They can influence the healing process in a positive or a negative way. Through nursing actions, positive factors of these variables could be enhanced, and negative ones – mitigated. This theory is unique in a way that it is more geared towards community work rather than indoor hospital practice. However, it can still be applied in a traditional hospital setting, in certain ways.
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse’s Human Becoming Theory
Human Becoming Theory, on the other hand, is a rather unconventional theory. It is built around concepts of Meaning, Rhythmicity, and Transcendence (“Human Becoming Theory”). These concepts affect nursing practice and relations between a nurse and a patient, as they revolve around discovery and application of thoughts and values, rhythmical life patterns, and transformation, through which a being may surpass its current limitations.
Pender’s Influence on Advanced Nursing Practice
Pender’s Health Promotion Theory gave a great boost to health promotion and disease prevention, as it was more focused on the elimination of illness than any other theories. It became the go-to framework for nursing interventions that deal with infection control, improvement of health, and elimination of negative side-effects associated with certain treatments (“Health Promotion Model”). This helped shape modern advanced nursing practice in many ways and had a particular influence on independent nursing research.
Parse’s Influence on Advanced Nursing Practice
Human Becoming Theory helped shape traditional nursing knowledge by adding a different level to it. This theory does not have a goal of directly fixing problems, but instead leads a nurse on a journey to self-discovery and self-identification, and allows her to be with the patient in order to guide them on their own path to recovery (“Human Becoming Theory”). This influenced nursing practice on all levels, ranging from basic to advanced nursing practices.
Use of Pender’s Model in AACN Essential VIII Daily Practice
AACN Essential VIII Daily Practices involve broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations. As such, Health Promotion Theory is well-suited for nurses involved in these activities, as the theory is best-suited for community healthcare settings. Nurses can use it to organize activities within the community that can promote health and reduce chances of illnesses and diseases spreading. This model deals with organization, financial matters, and community work. In addition, Health Promotion theory can be used to a moderate degree in other hospital settings, such as Intensive Care Units (“Health Promotion Model”). Applications in advanced nursing involve the introduction of methods that would prevent further spread of disease and serve to improve the overall situation.
Works Cited
“Health Promotion Model.” Nursing Theories, 2011.
“Human Becoming Theory.” Nursing Theories, 2011.