Nursing Theories

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  1. 5. She considered patients to be “unitary human beings” who should be looked at as the whole - within Nursing in the Science of Unitary Human Beings, there are two dimensions; the science of nursing and the art of nursing. To her, health was defined as an expression of the life process, with the basic characteristics of energy field, openness, pattern, and pan dimensionality. Her work was centralized around the idea that the role of the nurse is to serve people.
  2. 7. Her model is based on a patient’s relationship to stress, his/her reaction to it, and reconstitution factors that are dynamic. The nurse’s role is to prevent stress.
  3. 8. Her theory contains three circles: the core, the care, and the cure. There is emphasis put on looking at the patient as a whole, instead of focusing on one part.
  4. 9. She was the dean for the School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University for 10 years and the founder/head of the Bolton’s World Health Collaborating Center for Nursing. She has been awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and is the author of the theory The Life Perspective Rhythm Model, which says that human development has rhythms that cover the four major areas of person, health, wellness-illness, and metaparadigm.
  5. 14. Her model distinguished between caring ethics, the practical relationship between patient and the nurse, and nursing ethics.
  6. 15. His model is based on improving mental health and has six philosophical assumptions. It views health and illness as fluid and life as a journey undertaken on an ocean of experience.
  7. 17. Her model was based on assumption and theoretical propositions. The 5 key concepts of her model is person, environment, nursing, health, and illness.
  8. 19. His theory states that people’s personalities are influenced by the order of which they are born (first-born child, middle child, youngest).
  9. 20. Most recognized name in the field of nursing. Her work helped develop modern nursing practice and she focused on creating better conditions for patients.
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  1. 1. According to her theory, caring can be demonstrated and practiced by nurses. Caring for patients promotes growth; a caring environment accepts a person as he or she is, and looks to what he or she may become.
  2. 2. He developed a method named after him that included four areas, as well seven stages, some of which are attending, responding, and personalizing. He also listed the behaviors that should be observed after an intervention and skills required to be a successful helper, which include accurate empathy and genuine respect.
  3. 3. Her theory is comprised of three related parts: theory of self-care; theory of self-care deficit; and theory of nursing system.
  4. 4. Her work is known as “From Novice to Expert.” There are five levels to the theory, which are: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert.
  5. 6. His theory provides various ways to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patients regarding alternative medicine treatments. It involves the use of energy to treat patients.
  6. 10. Her model is based on the activities of living and the goal is to promote maximum independence of the patient.
  7. 11. He theorized a three-stage model of change that is known as the “unfreezing-change-refreeze model” that requires prior learning to be rejected and replaced.
  8. 12. Her model asks three central questions: Who is the focus of nursing care? What is the target of nursing care? and When is nursing care indicated?
  9. 13. Created a flexible plan to help nurses act deliberately and find the patients immediate needs for help.
  10. 16. The focus of her model was the importance of nurse-patient relationships and it also outlined the seven roles nurses have.
  11. 18. Her model provides appropriate interventions for nontraditional mothers for them to develop a maternal identity and form attachments with their child.