Relationships Among Nurses’ Professional Self-Concept, Health, and Lifestyles

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The article to be evaluated in this essay is titled Relationships Among Nurses’ Professional Self-Concept, Health, and Lifestyles. This is a qualitative journal article that was authored by Desiree Hensel. the article was published in the year 2011 and in the Western Journal of Nursing Research. For access the article was published for the purposes of informing the persons in the profession to evaluate the information and determine if it has any element of truth in it. In the Western Journal of Nursing Research, the article was published under volume 33 and placed under issue one. For persons that access the article on the journal, they have to go to page forty-five all the way to page sixty-two (Hensel, 2011). For purposes of reprints and permissions, these are possible on the website, /journalsPermissions.nav. Ideally the author in this article wants to establish the element of self-image or as it is referred to in the article, self-concept. Nurses develop perceptions about themselves which also affects the way that they deliver services to the patients. These perceptions are developed as the nurses interact with the environment and as result tend to judge themselves against the rest of the staff that they come across at the work place or even interact online (Hensel, 2011). They then match their ideals to those that they interact with and form a perception of what they feel is their personal image. The image that the nurses form of themselves is crucial to their retention and the performance at their pace of work.
The title of the paper, Relationships Among Nurses’ Professional Self-Concept, Health, and Lifestyles, is quite fitting and informative to the readers. From the title, it is possible for the readers to easily understand what the article is talking about. This is a crucial aspect of the good title as it should short and precise but still passing enough information to help the readers get a highlight of the article content.
The abstract of the paper is very informative to the readers, as it brings out all the main points that have been included in the paper. The author is precise and keen on highlighting all the parts of the article from the introduction to the results along with the discussion. However, little is mentioned about the methodology and the weaknesses of the research.
The article is also messing the theoretical framework part; however, the literature review part is quite informative. Using secondary sources and well-argued discussions, the author is able to inform the readers on the existing body of knowledge on the topic and the gap that is addressed in the research.
The purpose of the article is well aligned as it focuses on the impact that the self-image of the nurses and the impact that this has on their performance. According to the article, nurses do not necessarily practice the heathy lifestyles that they encourage their patients t...