HLTENN001 Practice Nursing within the Australian Health Care System

This group assessment asks you to work as a collaborative group to explore the theoretical concepts behind nursing theory by asking you to choose a nursing theorist and present your findings to class using the guidelines provided. This assessment will encourage you further to work together by:•    Encouraging collaboration and cooperation•    Assigning responsibility for the task and its components•    Leadership, delegation and coordination•    Preparing and presenting the report•    Encouraging an awareness of the potential and actual issues that may arise and techniques for managing these difficultiesGuidelines:1.    A brief biography of your chosen nursing theorist 2.    Summarise the theory and how it relates to modern nursing practice. Why is it important? What aspect of nursing care does it promote or assist? 3.    Provide one example of the nursing theory and its use in research literature 4.    Provide one example of how you may use the nursing theory in clinical practice5.    Write an individual reflective piece about the group assignment process. What went well? What could be improved? (Note: this is to be included in your written submission only)Important information:•    All members of the group must play a role in the presentation to class•    Each presentation must be 5 - 10 mins in duration •    You may use powerpoints, videos or other multimedia to assist with your presentation•    You will be expected to submit a written form of your presentation in essay  format  to the dropbox provided on brightspace by 9am 24/05/2017 •    Referencing is required using APA Joyce Travelbee was an American psychiatric nurse born in 1926, and she is known for her work as a nursing theorist. In 1956, Joyce completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Louisiana State University, and in 1959 she earned a Master of Science Degree in Nursing from Yale University (Petiprin, 2016). At the age of 47, Joyce enrolled for her doctoral program in Florida in 1973, but she never lived to finish it as she passed on later that year after a brief sickness (Southern Luzon State University - College of Allied Medicine , 2008). While taking her bachelor’s degree, in 1952, she served as an instructor at Depaul Hospital Affiliate School in New Orleans.  In this capacity, she primarily focused on psychiatric nursing. Other institutions in which Joyce taught psychiatric nursing included the University of Mississippi, New York University, and Charity Hospital School of Nursing of Louisiana State University (Delph, 2011).She began publish nursing journals and articles in 1963. Later on, she developed the Human-to-Human Relationship Model of Nursing, which she presented in her 1961 book entitled Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing (Alligood, 2014). The model was based on her belief that the profession called for a’ humanistic revolution’ and that compassion ought to be central to nursing. This conclusion was derived from her claim that the institutions she had worked had lacked compassion (Travelbee, 1966). In 1969, she authored her second book known as Intervention in Psychiatric Nursing: A One-To-One Relationship. As from 1970,