Introduction
Nurses’ philosophical outlook tends to be closely linked to their practice. Worldviews can include paradigms that reflect nurses’ core values and have a marked impact on their nursing practice, whether in clinical settings, education, or research. This work will focus on the four basic metaparadigms of nursing and the Middle-Range Theory of Comfort and prove its effectiveness in the emergency room.
Nursing Metaparadigms
As written above, nursing utilizes four basic metaparadigms in practice. The metaparadigm is an abstract set of concepts for the nursing discipline, which includes: human beings, environment, health, and nursing (Butts & Rich, 2017). The human metaparadigm is the first and the most basic one, defining that humans have a set of physical and psychological needs and that their lives have value.
The environment component states that the environment is inseparable from human health and well-being. The concept of health defines health from different points of view. Finally, the nursing concept defines itself as activities that meet the needs of the patient (Butts & Rich, 2017). These basic concepts are what Middle-Range Nursing Theories are built upon.
The Middle-Range Theory of Comfort
The Middle-Range Theory of Comfort focuses on the holistic needs of a patient. The theory is based on three states of comfort: ease, relief, and transcendence (Peterson & Bredow, 2019). Following this theory, a nurse provides a patient with ease by removing discomfort, removing all symptoms to provide relief and support, and guiding the patient to help him transcend and endure (Peterson & Bredow, 2019). As studies show, this approach helps decrease patients’ anxiety levels and helps identify and address patients’ needs (Bergström et al. 2018). Thus, the Comfort Theory allows for a better understanding of a patient and improves their psychological state while they undergo treatment in the emergency room.
Conclusion
Thus, the Comfort Theory has proven effective in the emergency room. It improves the experience of patients who undergo treatment and makes it easier to find and meet their needs, be they physical or psychological. Furthermore, it aligns with the basic metaparadigms of nursing, meeting all the requirements for human beings, environment, health, and nursing concepts. To summarize, the Comfort Theory is an efficient method in the emergency room that provides adequate holistic aid to patients.The four basic meta paradigms of nursing are examined in the paper, and the Middle-Range Theory of Comfort is shown to be effective in the emergency room.
References
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Peterson, S. J., & Bredow, T. S. (2019). Middle range theories: Application to nursing research and practice (5th ed.). LWW.
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