How development in nursing theories has affected the society and the environment?

Nursing theories not only has helped society as well as the nursing profession but also impacted the nursing practice and the outcomes of patients through influencing policies. Here’s how these advancements have made a difference:

 Impact on Society

 Patients, therefore, receive improved care and outcomes.

 Improved Practice: This is because nursing theories give frames of references on patient requirements and care measures to be taken. For instance, the Theory of Human Caring from Jean Watson underlines an aspect of kindness, understanding, which results to a more patient-oriented and person-centered care.

 Better Outcomes: These theories have been applied to enhance the health status by developing better and appropriate strategies for Patient care. For example, Self-Care Deficit Theory devised by Dorothea Orem promotes patients’ independence in care resulting in better results in self-care and health in general.

 Empowerment of Patients

 Self-Care: Promoting independence among the patients due to expansion of self-care and health promoting behavior, the significant strategies supported by Orem and Pender’s theories.

 Education: Nursing theories have impacted on educational models that improve patients’ knowledge on their illnesses and their treatments that enable them make good decisions in treatment compliance.

 Professional Development and Recognition

 Standardized Practice: Sometimes theories serve a principal organized method to execute nursing practices in order to increase protocol and professionalism. This has Increased the status of nurses in the healthcare system and enable nurse to be known as an independent profession.

 Training and Education: Nursing theories justify the nursing curriculum that nursing students undergo in their training to produce efficient and effective patient carers.

 Influence on Healthcare Policy

 Evidence-Based Practice: Incorporation of nursing theories to practice provides an evidence-based practice, which is useful in nursing as it affects healthcare policies and standards. for example patient safety and quality of care theories that have driven changes in policy to decrease medical errors and enhance the delivery of health services.

 Advocacy: In the recent past there has been an emphasis in the cultural factors affecting health hence policies have being formulated in relation to cultural consideration such as the Cultural Care Theory by Madeleine Leininger.

 Impact on the Environment

 Emphasis on Health Promotion and disease Control

 Environmental Health: Incorporation of environmental factors in theories including the Florence Nightingale Environmental Theory has in one way or the other enhanced the aspect of sanitation, control of infection, as well as general health of patients and the general public.

 Sustainability: Inherent goals that promote optimal health and comprehensive health services strengthen preventive and preventative health activities, care concepts for the use of valuable resources and the environment in health facilities.

 Reduction of Health Risks

 Prevention Strategies: Theories that are oriented towards prevention provide the basis for such nursing actions that in turn have positive implications for the health of the community and the environment that has to endure consequences of illness.

 Culture and Climate Shock

 Cultural Competence: This theory by Leininger has been important in the development of cultural competence in healthcare practices so that the healthcare procedures are culturally appropriate; respect to do with cultural and spiritual care; and cultural and environmental assessment so that the healthcare provides can practice the healthcare processes in the cultural and environmental framework.

 Summary

 The creation of the nursing theories has positively affected society, the patients, and the environment in the enhancement of quality care for the people, the advocacy of individual’s rights, definition of the nurse’s roles and responsibilities, and the formulation of the health policies. Implementing of the theories described above has brought positive changes for the people’s health, enhanced patient’s self-governance and shifted to a more comprehensive and improved health system. Such enhancements have not only made their benefits directly to the patients and the health care professionals but have also made focused to the social health pillars mostly on sustainable Health and cultural health.