Nursing

The Community Nursing Practice Model: Marilyn E. Parker and Charlotte D. Barry



The Community Nursing Practice Model: Marilyn E. Parker and Charlotte D. Barry

Introduction

Nursing theory is a body of knowledge that explains the variety of aspects of the nursing profession. Marilyn E. Parker and Charlotte D. Barry developed a Nursing Practice Model known as the Community Nursing Practice Model (CNPM). The authors developed the Community Nursing Practice Model (CNPM) to incorporate and understand that in order to be human one has to be caring and that caring is the essence of nursing. Community Nursing Practice Model (CNPM) guides practice various nursing situations. It is a model that facilitates in consistent supply of health care which is apt, acceptable and most important of all, it is cost effective.

History

This model was developed by 10 undergraduate nursing students. The nursing students and the author were trying to locate a child patient to have a tuberculin skin test being read. They located an elementary school where they were able to find a child whose test had to be read. The head of the school met them and besides welcoming asked them to stay and facilitate them with health care. The nurses took permission from their university, they agreed to move in.

In the next 10 years, the Community Nursing Practice Model (CNPM) was developed thoroughly, bringing forth the faculty, Students in schools and many community settings serving undeserved people specifically in the southeast of Florida. The design of the model led the developers to explore the way in which the model can be infused into the nursing practice. The developers found few articles on how such models have been implemented but what was missing was how the faculty of the university can incorporate it such practice in to the practice of nursing and research.

Practical aspect of Community Nursing Practice Model (CNPM)

The usefulness of the model analyzed by the capability it has to produce creative approaches in terms of nursing practice as well as highlight important research questions. The CNP model highlights transcendent and actualizing values in four themes which are nursing, person, community, and environment which in turn form the paradigmatic view (Parker & Barry, 1999). An explanation of the four interrelated themes is:

Nursing

The context of nursing is the caring attitude that a nurse exhibits towards the nursed one.

Person

The context of person is through the question “How can I be helpful to you?” actually guides ...