Helping art of clinical nursing: Application of theory in enhancing the quality of life of patients with psoriasis

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory hyper proliferative disease of the skin and affects people of all ages. In addition to the skin and joint manifestations, psoriasis impairs many aspects of individual well-being, including emotional, physical, sexual, and financial status. The cosmetic disfigurement of psoriasis has a negative impact on quality of life by causing psychological stress, disruption of social relationships and difficulties in daily life. Helping the patients with psoriasis to learn to live with their condition is a challenging and important role of nurses as health professionals. Nursing practice should be theory based and it enables the researcher to link the findings to nursing's body of knowledge. In this article, the author explains the application of Wiedenbach's “Helping art of clinical nursing theory” in developing and administering an intervention to enhance the quality of life of patients with psoriasis.