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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the concept of powerlessness. The creation of a concept analysis is completed in order to provide a contextualized view of a theoretical and practical term, rather than simply defining this term. This paper provides a concept analysis of this term as it relates to the nursing environment. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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that "a concept is an idea or complex mental image of a phenomenon (object, property or event). Concepts are the major components of theory" (22). The creation of
a concept analysis in nursing, then, provides a means of understanding a term as it relates to the development of more complex nursing theory. The term powerlessness in nursing can
refer to either physical or psychological processes and can be used to understand the role of nurses, the role of patients, the actions of nurses in advocacy for patients, and
the abuses that can occur as a result because of assumptions of powerlessness. The presentation of a concept analysis utilizing Walker and Avants (1995) model (Concept Analysis Process) provides
a basis for understanding the importance of powerlessness in nursing. Selection of the Concept The selection of the concept of powerlessness extends from views of existing
nursing theory which suggest a value in understanding the concept of powerlessness. Theorists like Dorothea Orem have put powerlessness at the heart of their theories on the role of
nursing in the carative environment. Dorothea Orems Self-Care Model, for example, is based on the assertion that individuals can provide a level of self-care, and that it is not
until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 types of systems that exist in any
professional nursing model: compensatory systems, in which the nurse provides all of the care (based on the notation of patient inability or powerlessness); partially compensatory systems, in which the
nurse and patient work together to share responsibility for care; and the educate-development system, in which the patient has the greatest responsibility for care, and the nurse provides support for
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