¶ … Applying Watson's Nursing Theory to Assess Patient Perceptions of Being Cared for in a Multicultural Environment" describes the validness and authentication of the nursing theory of care by Jean Watson. She was of the view that the best which a nurse can give to the patient is care as humans are naturally gifted with it and it is irrespective of ethnical, racial, cultural or social basis. The article describes the implications of this theory in such environment where the nurses and their patients have ethnical and cultural difference and they do not even understand each other's language. It is a case study designed to explore Saudi patient's perceptions of important caring behaviors by staff nurses. It was concluded by the data obtained that the patients rated overall caring behaviors as most important irrespective of their cultural differences with the caregiver. Hence Watson's theory was proved in a multicultural environment, but it is recommended that nurses should be provided with the assistance in foreign language so that they can better take care of their patients (Wakifa et.al 2009). The article "Virginia Henderson's principles and practice of nursing applied to organ donation after brain death" describes about the Need theory of Nursing presented by Virginia Henderson. She argued that main needs of humans should be addressed in nursing practice as a central focus and nurses should take care of the patients whole-heartedly and devotedly. Nurses should be provided with more knowledge and techniques so that they can better understand and fulfill the needs...
If nurses are adequately aware of any patients' brain death, then with the consent of the family, they can transplant the organs according to the needs of other patients. But for this purpose, they should be specialized in these areas. This concept is as according to Henderson's theory that the donation process will contribute significantly to transferring the gift of life from one human being to another via nurses (Nicely 2011).Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
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