Essays on Rhythmicity

Nursing Scenario

I have chosen the first scenario, in which I am a nurse at a primary care clinic, and my patient is a 48-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. To ensure the effectiveness of treatment, she has to change her eating habits to lose some weight, but she claims that it will be almost impossible for her to change in order to stop consuming her typical products. Her main argument is that she cooks for the whole family, and her husband, his father, and two adolescent children are used to the food they normally eat. This ...

I have chosen the first scenario, in which I am a nurse at a primary care clinic, and my patient is a 48 years old woman who has been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. To ensure the effectiveness of treatment, she has to change her eating habits to lose some weight, but she claims that it will be almost impossible for her to change her habits and stop eating the products she typically consumes. Her main argument is that she cooks for the whole family, and her husband, his father, and two adolescent children are used to the food ...

The human becoming theory by Rosemarie Rizzo has its basis on the idea that the goal of nursing is to achieve a quality of life and that this quality of life is based on each person’s perspective. Essentially, each human has their individual perception on what the quality of life entails. The theory has three major paradigms including meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence (Parker, Marilyn and Smith, 273). The meaning paradigm is embedded on the assumption that human becoming is the ability to find a personal meaning in the situations around them and that the reality of human is ...