Being independent in maintaining personal hygiene and getting dressed is seen as the norm in society. The model of nursing offered by Roper, Logan and Tierney (2000) can provide a structure to assess, plan and evaluate nursing care with regards to the basic activities of living. Recovery of this lost thread of history may improve patient care outcomes and enrich nursing practice.Ĭare planning is an essential skill for nursing care. This research demonstrates collaboration and partnership have been part of the nursing identity through history. Eisler’s theory offers insights about the historic roots of the dominator paradigm which limits the art of caring today. This contributes to attrition and the critical shortage of nurses. Loss of identity promotes powerlessness and decreases meaning and career satisfaction for nurses. Currently nursing is defined by the needs of health care systems. Conclusions The history of nursing in nursing textbooks is essentially a subjective story carefully crafted to impart select values to new nurses. Despite dominator pressures, nursing pioneers offered alternative models of care based on respect and empowerment. The writings of nurses through history provide inspiring examples of partnership care. Findings Nursing has a rich history of collaboration and partnership but currently dominator stories are used more frequently to socialize novices. The writings of Mary Seacole, Lillian Wald, Sister Elizabeth Kenny, and Mamie Odessa Hale are analyzed for themes that support an alternative paradigm of partnership and collaboration. Methodology This study applies a Critical Theory approach to reveal and deconstruct current ideological messages embedded in the history of nursing chapters in nursing fundamental textbooks. History provides inspirational stories of nurses who partnered with patients to create new models of care. To shift the current health care paradigm, nurses need to be educated in partnership. Yet new nurses are exposed to limited models of collaboration. Recent nursing research has demonstrated patient outcomes improve with implementation of collaborative care. These sections offer powerful images that initiate development of nursing identity in novices. Assumptions and beliefs are most evident in chapters describing the history of nursing. Therefore the assumptions and ideologies within the texts must be critically evaluated. Rationale/significance Nursing fundamental textbooks initiate socialization and profoundly impact the self-identity and practice of future nurses. The second objective was to illuminate historic exemplars of partnership in nursing. The first objective of this study was to determine if nursing fundamental textbooks in the United States use the story of the history of nursing to support a dominator paradigm. Her Cultural Transformation Theory identifies ideological differences between dominator and partnership paradigms. RECOVERING LOST THREADS OF THE STORY OF NURSING: ILLUMINATING PATTERNS OF PARTNERSHIP Aim of study Social theorist Riane Eisler describes human history as a persistent conflict between two patterns of social organization.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |