Week 6 Discussion 2: Application of a Shared Theory or Model to Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing

Overview

This is an individual discussion forum that each student will complete on their own.

For this discussion, choose one of the four shared theories or models (Knowles Theory of Adult Learning, Prochaska and DiClemente’s Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, or Maslow’s Human Motivation and Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs) from Week 7: Learning Materials as the focus of your initial post.

Initial Post

Please respond to the following prompt:

Applying your selected model to your primary care specialty, describe how you would use the model in intervening with a patient-care problem focusing on assessment, counseling, and teaching. For example: PNP: Adolescents with Type One diabetes; Women’s Health: Mothers with postpartum depression; Adult Geriatric NP: Older widower coping with their spouse’s death.

Your initial post should contain two to three paragraphs with three to four sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than 3 years old and use APA formatting for citations and references.

Reply Posts

Reply to at least two of your classmates. In your reply posts, apply your selected theory to the patient-care problem of two of your colleagues who chose a different theory or model using a minimum of two scholarly references formatted per APA style.