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Theory of Nursing Practice and Career by Cecilia Laurente
Theoretical Foundations In Nursing (Far Eastern University)
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Cecilia Laurente
Theory of Nursing Practice and Career
❖ Who is Cecilia Laurente?
➢ Cecilia Laurente is a filipino nursing theorist, who focused her works primarily on
helping a patient through support systems, specifically the family.
➢ She published a paper entitled, “Categorization of Nursing Activities as Observed
in Medical-Surgical Ward Units in selected Government and Private Hospitals in
Metro Manila.”
➢ Cecilia Laurente is known for her work in the field of nursing. In her theory of
nursing practice, she emphasized effective communication and championed
using the family as an entry point to help a patient.
❖ Cecilia Laurente’s Career
➢ Graduated BSN at University of the Philippines in 1967 and
➢ a Master of Nursing in 1973.
➢ She worked as a Staff Nurse in 1968-1969
➢ She became a Head Nurse in 1970-1972
➢ And as a Nursing Supervisor IN 1973-1976 at Philippine General Hospital
➢ She also worked at Metropolitan Hospital in Michigan US in 1977-1979
➢ She came and become a Instructor at University of the Philippines College
of Nursing in 1979
➢ And Later on she became a Dean of College of Nursing in UP Manila from
1966 - 2002
NURSING THEORY
"Categorization of Nursing Activities as Observed in Medical-Surgical Ward Units in
Selected Government and Private Hospitals in Metro Manila"
THEORY OF NURSING PRACTICE AND CAREER
❖ The theory was from her study, the Categorization of Nursing Activities as
Observed in Medical-Surgical Ward Units in selected Government and Private
Hospitals in Metro Manila, which was conducted from January to June year 1987
❖ In the recent study of Laurente she states that the other entry point of helping the
patient is through the family, when nurses can be of great assistance to prevent
at the very beginning serious complications. The nurse can help strengthen the
family’s term of knowledge, skills, and attitude through effective communication,
employed informative, psychotherapeutic, modeling, behavioral, cognitivebehavioral, and/or hypnotic techniques are summarized and evaluated
Concepts of the Theory
❖ What is “Anxiety”?
➢ A mental state of fear or nervousness about what might happen
INursing Caring Behavior that affect patient’s Anxiety:
❖ Presence
➢ Person to person contact between the client and the nurses.
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❖ Concern
➢ Development in the time though mutual trust between the nurse and the
patient
❖ Stimulation
➢ Nurse stimulation through words tops the powerful resources of energy of
person for healing
Enhancing and Predisposing Factor
❖ What is a predisposing Factor?
➢ Predisposing factors are defined in these models as factors that exert their
effects prior to a behavior occurring, by increasing or decreasing a person
or population’s motivation to undertake that particular behaviour.
❖ Predisposing Factors
➢ Age
➢ Sex
➢ Civil Status
➢ Educational Status
➢ Length of Work
➢ Experience
❖ Enhancing Factors
➢ One’s caring experience, beliefs and attitude
➢ Feeling good about
➢ Learning at school
➢ What patients tell about the nurse coping mechanism to problems
encountered
➢ Communication
BACKGROUND
➢ Communication is key when getting nurses to engage patients and
families in their care.
➢ Research to develop the guide found that communication gaps between
patients and caregivers can occur when hospitals do not address the
issues that patients' thoughts are most important. Another factor is the
available tools are to give health providers insights into patients' needs
and concerns. As a result, efforts by patients, families and health
providers to communicate more effectively with each other can fall short of
their goal.
➢ Each strategy includes educational tools and resources for patients and
families, training materials for healthcare professionals and real-world
examples that show how strategies are being implemented in hospital
settings. The strategies describe how patients and families, working with
hospital staff, can: be advisors; promote better communication at the
bedside to improve quality; participate in bedside shift reports; and
prepare to leave the hospital.
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