So, we all know I'm back in school full-time, and am working on my second term as of last week. So this term I have the joy of taking a class on nursing theory, specifically, Middle Range Theory. We all know that everything we do as health care practitioners somehow ties back to one of those theories that we learned about ages ago, but could really care less to ever think about again. Unfortunately, I thought that I was done covering theory in undergrad, but here I am again, and believe me when I say undergrad was definitely better. I am reading the most poorly written textbook I have ever read in my educational career, which is long running. I know this book is technically written in English, however, it seems like a foreign language.
I tend to think of myself as an intelligent person that analyzes everything, and am constantly thinking about the evidence and practicality behind what I do as a LDRP nurse, and most people I work with could describe me as a sort of devil's advocate in the Birthing Center; however, they continue to support my education, and sometimes my ideas about pregnancy and birth as a whole. So to all of you who have been in contact with me the last few weeks, this class has increased my stress level and here's why"
"The paradigm debate remains unresolved. Without the emergence of a single dominant paradigm, nursing is left with multiple paradigms that are either competing or complementary or the need to develop an integrated paradigm that dialectically combines the perspectives of multiple paradigms. With this state of paradigm confusion, it would be helpful for nurse theorists to identify the paradigmatic perspective from which the theory is developed and nurse researchers to identify the paradigmatic perspective from which the research questions were posed and the research methods chosen." (Peterson & Bredow, 2009, p.14)
Peterson, S. and Bredow, T. (2009). Middle Range Theories: Application to Nursing Research (2nd ed.) (p. 4). Philedelphia: Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins.
This paragraph was in the first chapter about 4 pages in, and if you can imagine the entire rest of the book was written in the same glorious style that makes me want to blow my head off while reading it. If any of you are able to ingest, digest, and spit back up the previous paragraph in a way that makes sense without the urge of suicide then you deserve a gold star...or possibly the Noble Peace Prize.
So, point of the story:
1) Don't go back to school for an advanced practice degree, and
2) If you do, also get a script for Zanax
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4 comments:
could they not find another word for paradigm? i don't even know what that means anymore after reading that paragraph. wow. i don't know how you do it!
oh yeah--you saw on here that i'm pregnant again right? due in september! and as much as i'd love to but into the paradigm of natural childbirth, i'm going to have give it a big fat HECK NO and take another epidural the minute i enter the hospital!! I LOVE DRUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i know i know, i'm a wimp. self proclaimed!!!!
You know that you have all of my sympathy. Been there, done that, and now I am doing it again :) :) It looks like I get to avoid re-taking such lovely courses as nursing theory!! I will just be taking 20 hours of practicum in peds and adult to complete my FNP.
Try to remember to digest it all one day at a time and one assignment at a time!! It will all be sooo worth it when you get to do what you were meant to do- be an awesome midwife. It takes a lot to face the challenge of getting to your goal. Most would give up- I am cheering you on!! Jenny
Keep up the good work! I already took that LOVELY class and feel VERY SORRY for you! Good luck! I am SURE that you will do FINE! If I can survive that LOVELY class....so can you!
Holy crap - you just ruined any thought I had of going back to school. I feel for you! I didn't realize you could use the word paradigm so many times in one paragraph. Amanda - you can do it, you've made it this far! Jenine
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