Nursing Influence
The author of this report has been asked to offer some insight and informed perspective about how nurses should be influenced by organizational nursing theory. Specifically, the author of this report will cite Polk's theory of resilience to answer this question. The manners in which the influence could or should render would include whether it is compelling for other professionals, whether it promotes sustainability, how it is related to the commission of collegiate nursing, how it influences the profession itself, how it influences the culture and how it can lead to change in the nursing industry overall. While organizational theory can easily delve into navel-gazing and the wasting of time, there are many theories and ideas in the nursing paradigm that could and should be taken very seriously.
Summary
Before getting to the answers found for most of the questions above, the author of this report will first focus on the aforementioned Laura Polk's Theory of Resilience. As offered in March 1997 by Polk herself, the theory centers on the idea that "the ability to transform disaster into a growth experience and move forward defines the concept of resilience" (Polk, 1997). She continues by saying that "nursing is concerned with individuals in this process of moving through adversity and with its own contribution to the process" (Polk, 1997). A different...
As offered by Earvolino-Ramirez, the purpose of this other research was to "analyze the concept or resilience and provide a definition of resilience that is contextually independent of specific age-related groups or populations." The results found that resilience is being studied more and more in "innovative" ways and among a diverse group of different populations. However, the author also noted that the definition of resilience has evolved and changed over the years as the subject has been researched and studied. That author also notes that resilience is a term with firm roots in psychology and similar studies. Indeed, there is the old adage that children are known to be resilient through challenges and struggles (Earvolino-Ramirez, 2007).
Based on the readings above and the personal feelings of the author of this report, the author would give a few answers to the questions asked for this assignment. First of all, the general nexus and intersection of organizational theory in a nursing context and resilience is not hard to see as being important and vital when it comes to doing one's job as a nurse. Indeed, nursing is a very high-stress field and it comes with many failures and disappointing results. Mistakes are made, patients die and there are many hard lessons that have to be learned. People…
