FNU Locsins’s Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Discussion The cornerstone of the profession of nursing includes the nursing practice theories

FNU Locsins’s Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Discussion The cornerstone of the profession of nursing includes the nursing practice theories and practices like the Locsins’s Technological Competency as Caring and the community nursing practice model. This is because the nursing practice calls for one to not only apply skills and knowledge in the execution of their roles but as an art, in so doing they promote efficacy and diligence (Saleh, 2018). The benefits of combining the Locsins’s Technological Competency as Caring and the community nursing practice model is that they are able to harmonize the concepts of nurse practice in the context of a much modern form of healthcare.

Through technology, nurses are taken closer to the patient and the patients are able to get closer to the nurses, thus minimizing the gap between the two. This means that through the Locsins’s model, nurses are drawn closer to their communities thus fulfilling the four themes in the community nursing model which are person, nursing, community and environment (Locsin, 2016). Additionally Locsin’s model promotes nursing proficiency by making them know their patients not as objects of care but as participants in their care. This is exactly what a community need in the promotion of the state of health in their community and environment.

The combination of both practice models also promotes participation of both the nurses and the people within the community. This allows the nurses to build relationships based on care and the needs of the patients they interact with, focusing on the goals and interests of the patients. The patient’s confidence is also promoted through the structures in place and the kind of familiarity built between them and the nurses. Blasdell (2017) states that caring in nursing practice is preserving, protecting and enhancing the dignity of human beings. By incorporating Locsin’s models performance is promoted and through community nursing practice preserving and enhancing of the human dignity through healthcare is promoted

References

Blasdell, N. D. “ The meaning of caring in nursing practice.” Int J Nurs Clin Pract, 4(238):2

Locsin, R (2016). The theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: Guiding nursing and health care. Shikoku Acts Medica, 72 (5), 6

Saleh, U.S (2018). Theory guided practice in nursing. Journal of Nursing Research and Practice, 2(1), 18