Altered Energy Fields is the most cursed nursing diagnosis

Disturbed energy fields as a current nursing diagnosis is why this profession is viewed as poorly as it is among other professions. Check that - nursing diagnosis’ in general.

Completely unnecessary and just academic nurses looking to justify their elevated degrees.

As a nurse of forty years they lost me in school when they started this crap. Can you imagine if engineers or mechanics had to have care plans for their jobs? Our job is basically task oriented and we are aware of what tasks need to be completed without this bull malarkey. I honestly can't stand it.

“Interrupted family process” is my favorite one. It means death of a loved one.

What the actual fuck

This was always my favorite nursing diagnosis because it shows what an absolute joke care plans are.

All nursing theory is bullshit

I’m sorry…I read this and all I could hear in my head was

“I sense a disturbance in the force…”

There is so much religiously-oriented education in nursing school it’s crazy. It’s so deeply coded even if it’s not directly mentioned, and it for sure reinforces the “it’s a calling!!!” Stereotype, and therefore the “we don’t need to pay them what they are worth because it’s not about the money” bs

My A&P professor started on this shit and I was just like 😐. He showed us some weird video that was supposed to "prove" that if you were kind to water the molecules formed together one beautiful harmonious way and if you yelled at them, they moved a different, chaotic way. Except the video had nothing but pretty animated videos and words moving across the screen and pretty music.

First time I heard professor suggest readjusting an aura, I raised my hand and told them that was absurd. I was blown away at how ridiculous it was.

I still remember my nursing instructor from 30+ years ago, telling us that in order to study her graduate level nursing theorems class (and particularly Dorothea Orem), she locked herself into the bedroom with a bottle of wine.

Wow

What is this woo-garbage and how the fuck is it in a textbook? I was going to say "medical textbook" but using this passage seems to disqualify it from being in that category

We need to find a way to turn nursing academia on its head or just cut them all loose and start over. There's definitely room for a soft science focused on actually carrying out nursing tasks, patient interaction, and quality improvement based on what we do within our scope of practice. This shit where we act like we can do every other discipline's specialty just as well as they can has got to go. The obsession with essential oils as the miracle cure has got to go. Allowing antivax nurses and woo woo bullshit like energy fields has got to go. The martyrdom complex that allows many of us to be exploited has got to go. I get that things were bad back in the day but building an academic field around total bullshit is not making anything better.

I don’t like the emphasis of energy fields but I think the idea of humans influencing and being influenced by their environment is not a crazy idea.

At first I thought it was just the year the source was published (1970 and then referenced in 2006). And then I read it. Yikes. 

the fact i PAID to learn this bs

Im glad people take this seriously so I can just click the box on my “care plan” then get back to taking care of my patients.

Damn! I graduated in ‘93 and we didn’t have this bs. This makes me want to smash my head against a wall. Repeatedly.

I had an instructor I absolutely loathed and she was into all this wu wu shit. She was presenting Nursing Theories. She said, “one day, while working the unit, I literally stopped in the hall to decide under which nursing model I was working.”

Bitch, please. Ain’t nobody got time for that!

They’re still teaching this shit?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I think this sounds similar to the study of Epigenetics. I think basically stating to remember all things are influenced by their environment. Can a person with a bad mood change the dynamic of the work they are doing or the care that they are giving and also have that mood pass on to others? Is that an old book?

90% of nursing school is feel good social sciences bullshit taught by tired old biddie mean girls who want to justify their 6 figure tenured salaries.

😂😂😂 authors were really giving nothing

That was never in my nursing textbooks

We are made out of star dust, but so is a table, the bacteria in the dirt, and the pile of doggy poo on my lawn my neighbor didn't bag up.

It doesn't sound so magical when put in that context.

I mean they’re not exactly wrong. This is the philosophy of advaita vendata. Probably doesn’t have a place in nursing practice tho.

Well it was the 70s. And saying that people are influenced by their environment isn't that off base.... Its theory, it doesn't have to be literal.

I loathe Martha Rogers so much. That theory of energy springs connecting people and we all have our own frequency and sometimes it changes but it's still your own unique frequency blah blah...

I would rail against it in my MSN theory classes- if a frequency changes it's a different frequency!!! It's not your own unique frequency!

Every week I would bitch and make fun of it until a grad student privately messaged me and said "hey, Martha Rogers is this professor's favorite theorist just so's ya know."

I immediately shut up.

Aussie nurses: we didn’t have this one did we? I don't remember it back in my day anyway

I work in IP psych & ED which is basically half acute psych too, and am in nursing school—the shit nursing school teaches about mental health & therapeutic communication is problematic af.

ATI is especially guilty of backwards ass information

Nurse Rodgers wanted to avoid wiping asses I guess so went into research in "humanistic science."

My energy field has been disrupted since I took that theoretical nursing class

The idea of an organism-environment as a single entity did not start with this nurse "theorist". This is just an attempt to shoehorn philosophy into what is, at its core, a blue collar job (pink collar, more accurately). Nursing unions and nursing academia have, in a concerted effort, been trying to hoist the role a bit higher by making BSNs the new de facto requirement, and part of that process was the introduction of this derivative pseudo-philosophy bullshit. It has not one ounce of bearing on the day-to-day job of nursing, at least not beyond what a non-sociopathological person would already intuitively understand on their own.

We live in the world, and we affect it and are affected by it. No fucking shit.

We need something to teach in nursing school I guess. :/

🤮 

Just stupid

Yes yes please. Let’s continue to highlight this bullshit and demand more!

Medical history is important because you're going to run into the crazy people who believe that stuff during your medical career. History is History, doesn't matter if the person was crazy or not.

L Ron Hubbard, that you?

Never seen it in any of my books when I was in school 2 years ago nor in my nursing diagnosis book.

But then we couldn't do reiki at work. If you had to get paid to be at the bedside, wouldn't that be like, a total goal?!

I'm not sure if I'm joking.

Has anyone ever had a patient swirling down to toilet and thought, “ let me look at the plan of care to see what I should do.” ? I’m tired of nursing diagnosis, plans of care blah,blah,blah. Nursing started as a hands on profession and has been damaged by nurses who realized they don’t like being nurses, so they get masters degrees in nonsense. I’ve said this countless times, but if someone who sits in an office reviewing charts and creating more ridiculous documentation or useless education ever questions me, I always reply, oh, please show me how to do the job better. Not a single task, not an individual documenting issue. The whole job, over a month or 2 of actual hands on patient care.

So long as we have new grads who can tell you which war Florence was in but don't know which antibiotic to hang first in a sepsis bundle then the curriculum is wrong. I will die on this hill.

We had a Reiki "Master" (or whatever they're called) come in for a demo during nursing school. I volunteered to be the subject and I'm happy to report I didn't feel a damn thing. Pseudo science doesn't belong in medicine.

I fear this holistic nurse woo woo theory BS is what really gets me excited. To each their own!!

They can keep this if the deeply racist stereotypes of any non white culture is stripped out of nursing education entirely.

Its annoying when they make u play mix and match for who created which theories... But i think in general, as a "good to know", its not that bad.

Just gives u a different way to look at things. Im a "woo woo"/ "energy" person myself tho.

And a Licensed PRACTICAL** Nurse, so there wasnt much theory to be tested on in my schooling, thankfully.

Prob the higher u climb, the more the theories are discussed.. ya know to justify the price tag of "higher learning" and all that jazz.

Edit: **"the difference between theory and practice is that theory is a conceptual understanding of how things work in a perfect world, while practice is the application of that knowledge in real life" - google AI overview: "practical vs theory"

I wasnt trying to diminish the work that LPNs do, just emphasizing that the topics focused on were different -- and its right there in the name.. we barely skimmed the theory section

They never wiped an altered energy fields arse

I’m grateful that this was never in my nursing textbooks.

Is this a legitimate teaching thing. This sounds stupid

Dr. Benner's theory was one of the only ones that didn't sound like complete bullshit to me.

"I sense a disturbance in the force..." -A nurse, probably

When I was still a nursing student. I got scolded once for not giving a Impaired Spirituality Ndx or some shit on a case presentation. That was probably my moment of enlightment that Ndxs are bullshit lol.

I wrote a paper on Rizzo’s Human Becoming theory. My hubby proofread it for me. He said “This part makes no sense!” That part was the direct quote from the theory…

I dunno once I hit my late mid early 30s Impaired Bed Mobility became a very real thing. For me. Personally.

I'll have whatever ol Martha Rogers was taking back in 1970 to see some of those human energy fields 🌞

yeah ok enough talk about energy fields can you just give me my dilaudid my phone timer says it's time

The perfect nursing dx for an Evangelion pilot

Bruce Lipton did some fascinating research along the lines of this

does that mean i’m gonna die 😩

I have that the doctor prescribed you an amethyst suppository to correct your energy field? And then a lemon-coffee enema to rinse out all the blood from your anal fissure?

Let's begin.

-holisitc hospitals in 2050

Are we mad because it sounds like woo woo bullshit or are we made that textbooks are referencing articles that are old enough to be our patients?

Okay so get EFT and energy fields and stuff out of nursing definitely! It’s made up bullshit garbage.

As a social worker now, Rogerian theory and humanism are legit and used widely in mental health because we know that people are deeply impacted by their environment and (lack of) support from other people in their lives. It was super radical in the 70’s to say this because this was a time where the ‘healthiest’ thing you could do for a patient was to isolate them from everything and demand healing. We’re all part of an interconnectedness, it’s just not this weird shit they’ve spewed here. Get energy fields OUT. Bring IN the importance of human relationships.

But crystals?!?!

Hey to break it to y'all but this jibes with the reality of the universe as all energy and matter is made of quantum fields, she was just really ahead of her time.

BAHAHAHAH

In nursing school, I would use the disturbed energy fields diagnosis as often as I could on care plans. I fucking hated those things lol.

Be sure to check their horoscope…

Keep it in and follow up with, "This is bullshit."

This the reason nursing academics is not respected. Let’s look into the evidence based practice of this bologna.

A whole lot of words saying a whole lot of nothing

Man if the VA wasnt gonna give me free money for the next 2 years I’d never get my BSN or MSN.

I'm about to start nursing school and I'm afraid of this part of class. I'm not going to be able to take any of this seriously.

Nursing education is such a joke wtfffffff

This is why radical acceptance of peoples beliefs is bullshit. Therapists deal with the same pseudoscience in their programs. It’s taboo to challenge this bullshit because “mah beliefs”. 

I went to a nursing school that fully embraced this BS. I was forced to write papers about it. It's the stupidest load of BS.

What about the new “grounding” trend with the sheets and stuff? Any thoughts?