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Nursing Theory
For the 21st century, I feel that the Theory of Community Empowerment is a model that will work well. When we consider the challenges of health care in the 21st century, we realize that technology advancements and new drugs are doing a lot of the technical work on physical healing, but these are the sorts of remedies that come about only after someone gets sick. Ultimately, medical procedures and drugs are not a pathway to sustainable health. As I understand the Theory of Community Empowerment, one of the most important roles of the nurse is to work with people, connect with them, and then help them to help themselves. We, as a community, are responsible for our own health, for making the right choices that can help us avoid having health problems in the first place.
This theory has been expounded upon at length in nursing literature. To reduce disease and ailment, we must begin by empowering patients to take more responsibility and make better choices. Many people become disempowered, for a wide range of...
As our society pushes more for preventative measures and cost savings, keeping people from getting ill in the first place becomes more important. Rappaport (1987) highlighted the role that communities play both in setting norms and providing support, and the use of community and nurses will help people to make better choices that will have a positive effect on their long-term health.
These ideas were more fully developed into a nursing context by Persily & Hildebrandt (2008). Their concept was based on participatory action research, wherein the researcher is involved directly in the actions. Thus, they learned by doing. The roots of this theory are based on the idea that human beings are affected by their interactions with each other. The community as a whole has the power within it to help improve health. The role of nurses is in part to improve the ability of the community to make better choices and to…
References
Fawcett, S., Paine-Andrews, A., Francisco, V., Schultz, J., Richter, K., Williams, E., Lewis, R., Harris, K., Berkley, J., Fisher, J., Lopez, C. (1995). Using empowerment theory in collaborative partnerships for community health and development. American Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 23 (5) 677-697.
Persily, C. & Hildebrandt, E. (2008). Theory of Community Empowerment, excerpt from Middle Range Nursing Theories. Springer.
Rappaport, J. (1987). Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory of community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 15 (2) 121-148.
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