Viewing nursing as a unified process allows maintaining the cohesion of actions and guidelines within it, thus, setting uniform standards and contributing to quality improvement. Therefore, the specified perspective affects the efficacy of nursing services to a significant extent. Among the theories that address the concept o unity in nursing, one must mention Rogers’ Unitary Human Beings (Malinski et al., 2018). Promoting the perception of patients as complex yet unified systems, Rogers’ framework focuses on the betterment of nursing practice and the overall well-being of the global community (Malinski et al., 2018). Namely, Rogers’ theory suggests that patients should be viewed in the context of their environments so that their needs could be understood more accurately and met more precisely (Malinski et al., 2018). Therefore, the framework in question serves to enhance the quality of care while also promoting higher quality of life in target populations.
The theory in question reflects the changes that the global knowledge development process has been producing on the global nursing community. Specifically, the need to embrace culture-specific factors influencing patients and shaping their health has predetermined the described change. With the emphasis on interdisciplinary cooperation and cross-cultural communication, particularly, in addressing the needs of patients from diverse communities, the necessity to consider the specific characteristics of the environment in which patients live, therefore, viewing the target population as inseparable from their communities (Tinanoff et al., 2019). The specified shift in understanding of nursing is justified by the alterations in the development of global knowledge, namely, the recognition of the need to include experiences of diverse cultural and ethnic groups into it (Tinanoff et al., 2019). The emphasis on inclusion is likely to contribute to the improvement of care due to a more accurate perception of the target audiences’ needs, as well as the expected responses toward the established nursing strategies and the significance of building new nursing approaches.
References
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