How to respond to discussion post below:   The metaparadigm…

DukeFang5644How to respond to discussion post below:   The metaparadigm…How to respond to discussion post below: The metaparadigm concept of interest to me of the 21st century nurse scholar is ‘Respecting Life and Nature.’ Many of the medicines we have today are derived from plants. The choices we make affect human health, e.g. BP oil spill in the ocean, the toxic air surrounding factory farms, the recent carcinogenic chemical spill from the train in Palestine, Ohio to cite a few examples. All of life is interconnected and our choices and actions affect both humanity and other beings.     According to Cody (2013), Sylvia Earle in the book Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995) conveys “an urgent call to action to do something about the damage being done to our global environment and the universe. Nowhere is there life without water…The living ocean provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet. That’s why the ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we’ll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one” (p. 380). Earle recognizes the interrelationship between humans and the environment. According to Cody (2013), “Parse (1998) posits that the human-universe-health process is a mutual process and that ‘quality of life is the meaning one gives to one’s life at the universe in cocreation with the universe.’ Respect for life and nature must coexist with respect for the advances of modern science and civilization” (p. 380).     In a study by Korkut et al. (2021), progressive muscle relaxation accompanied by nature sounds helped significantly reduce nursing students’ state anxiety inventory levels and pulse rates and increase their blood pressure measurement skills and test knowledge scores during blood pressure measurement practice in the skill laboratory (p. 1789).  A study by Johansson et al. (2022) found “spending time in nature have a positive effect on health and well-being for instance by reducing stress. Specific programs with nature-based interventions (NBI) with the intention to involve people in activities in a supportive natural environment have been developed for people with stress-related illness” (p. 1).     I might incorporate this concept into my nursing practice by encouraging conscientious practices of patients. Treating a human being holistically can include recommending spending time outdoors in nature, as well as drinking enough clean water and eating a whole food plant-based diet. Periodically, I may drop a tidbit of medicine trivia such as that aspirin is made of willow bark and morphine for end-of-life pain comes from plants. Often we as humans try to live life separately from nature but we depend on it and are able to live because of it. Social SciencePsychology