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The public eye has been turned towards the constant suffering of the nurses from

handling the day-to-day struggles. As such, the nursing profession has been brought back to its

core theories as a guide in handling the situation. The importance of handwashing and the

prevention of cross contamination has never been drilled into modern day nurses as much as

before. Several nursing theories can already be sited based on those facts. We can dig into

Nightingale’s Environmental theory as a way to promote personal hygiene and disinfection of

surroundings.

In Orem’s Self-care deficit and Nursing systems theory can guide us into educating the

public that prevention is always better than the cure plus the care we provide when the patient is

confined at the hospital. The care nurses provide will greatly depend on the needs of the patient.

For example, we will provide oxygenation therapy to a patient who is suffering from respiratory

issues. On the other hand, we will not provide a bed bath to a patient who is mobile and is

experiencing mild to moderate symptoms.

Callista Roy’s adaptation model provided us insight on how to provide holistic care.

From the spiritual, emotional and physical stand point. It has shown that we can manage the pre-

existing factors in order to prevent further harm to the patient. Care starts from the prevention, to

the adaptation of care once the symptoms start or worsens and finally moving on to the recovery

phase.

We have so much more nursing theories that can help us nurses to perform our tasks. It is

with this knowledge that nurses are quick to adapt with the onslaught of the pandemic. With the

core theories in mind, we were able to provide quality care to each of our patients albeit the lack

of public preparedness.
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References

Almeida, I. J. S., Lúcio, O. S., Nascimento, M. S., & Coura, A. S. (2020). Coronavirus pandemic

in light of nursing theories. Rev Bras Enferm, 73 (Suppl 2).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0538