Myra Estrin Levine developed the Conservation Model of Nursing. The model focuses on promoting adaptation and maintaining wholeness through the principles of conservation. The theory describes four major concepts - environment, person, health, and nursing. The goal of nursing according to Levine is to help the person adapt to their environment and maintain wholeness through the four conservation principles of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social integrity. Adaptation is the process of change that allows an individual to retain integrity despite challenges, while conservation is the outcome of achieving balance.
Myra Estrin Levine developed the Conservation Model of Nursing. The model focuses on promoting adaptation and maintaining wholeness through the principles of conservation. The theory describes four major concepts - environment, person, health, and nursing. The goal of nursing according to Levine is to help the person adapt to their environment and maintain wholeness through the four conservation principles of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social integrity. Adaptation is the process of change that allows an individual to retain integrity despite challenges, while conservation is the outcome of achieving balance.
Myra Estrin Levine developed the Conservation Model of Nursing. The model focuses on promoting adaptation and maintaining wholeness through the principles of conservation. The theory describes four major concepts - environment, person, health, and nursing. The goal of nursing according to Levine is to help the person adapt to their environment and maintain wholeness through the four conservation principles of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social integrity. Adaptation is the process of change that allows an individual to retain integrity despite challenges, while conservation is the outcome of achieving balance.
Myra Estrin Levine developed the Conservation Model of Nursing. The model focuses on promoting adaptation and maintaining wholeness through the principles of conservation. The theory describes four major concepts - environment, person, health, and nursing. The goal of nursing according to Levine is to help the person adapt to their environment and maintain wholeness through the four conservation principles of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social integrity. Adaptation is the process of change that allows an individual to retain integrity despite challenges, while conservation is the outcome of achieving balance.
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MYRA ESTRIN LEVINE: THE b) PERCEPTUAL ENVIRONMENT – Recorded
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CONSERVATION THEORY c) CONCEPTUAL ENVIRONMENT – MYRA ESTRIN LEVINE: LIFE AND BIO Language/ Culture/ Ideas.
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920 with her brother II. PERSON
and sister. It is the unique individual in unity, integrity, Her father was a hardware man, who was often ill feeling and believing. due to gastrointestinal problems. It has a freedom of choice, and movement. Inspired in nursing due to her mother’s will to take A holistic person is a thinking being. care of her father. A PERSON can be an individual, family, or a Attends University of Chicago but choose to community. attend Cook County instead due to financial problems (graduated – 1944). III. HEALTH Private Duty Nurse (1944) Is socially determined by the ability to A civilian nurse in the U.S. Army (1945) function in a reasonably normal matter. Pre-clinical instructor in the physical sciences at Health and disease are patterns of adaptive Cook County. change. Director of Nursing at Drexel Home Chicago. From a social perspective, health is the ability Called the “Renaissance Woman” to function in social roles. BOOK: Introduction to Clinical Nursing (1969). Health is an individual response that may The book was used as a beginning nursing text by change over time in response to new Levine and many of her colleagues. situations, new life challenges, and aging, or in response to social, political, economic, and THE CONSERVATION MODEL spiritual factors. From the Latin word “Conservatio” means to keep RETURN TO SELF (Pursue their own interest together. within the context of their own resources). Conservation is to help the person with the process A nurse’s goal is to promote health. of “keeping together”. Focused on promoting adaptation and maintaining IV. NURSING wholeness or integrity using the principles of The nurse enters into a partnership of human conservation. experience where sharing moments in time— Describes the way complex systems can continue some trivial, some dramatic—leaves its mark to function even when severely challenged. forever on each patient. There are 4 principles/major concepts in the The goal of nursing is to promote adaptation Levine’s theory. (Environment, Person, Health, and maintain wholeness (health). and Nursing). “Nursing is a human interaction. Professional An there are 3 MAJOR COMPONENTS IN THIS nursing should be reserved for those few who THEORY: ADAPTATION, WHOLENESS AND can complete a graduate program as CONSERVATION. demanding as that expected of professionals in any other disciplines… There will be very I. ENVIRONMENT few professional nurses.” (Levine, 1969) Describes the internal (psychological or COMPONENTS pathophysiological) and external (impinge or challenge an individual) environment. a) Adaptation – the process of change and Completes the wholeness of the individual. conservation is the outcome. Levine was inspired by Florence Nightingale’s Process of change whereby the individual Environmental Theory. retains his integrity within the realties of ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT: his internal and external environment. a) OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT – THREE CHARACTERISTICS OF Undetected natural forces. ADAPTATION: 1. HISTORICITY – the notion that d) Conservation of Social Integrity – Life gains adaptive responses are partially based meaning through social communities and on perpetual and genetic past history. health is socially determined. Adaptive responses are personal and. Nurses should: Genetic. Provide for family members 2. SPECIFICITY – Unique stimulus- Assists with religious needs response pathways. This are specific Use interpersonal relationships stressors and are task oriented. Attain professional roles. Responses-stimulated multiple pathways which occur in a cascade of ORGANISMIC RESPONSE complimentary pathways. A change in behavior or change in the level of 3. REDUNDANCY - One system/ functioning during an attempt to adapt to the pathways, is unable to ensure environment. The organismic responses are intended adaptation, then another pathway to maintain the patient’s integrity. According to maybe able to take over and complete Levine, there are 4 organismic response that includes: the job. b) Conservation – is the product of adaptation a) FIGHT/ FLIGHT RESPONSE – This is the and is a common principle underlying many of most primitive response. It is an instantaneous the basic sciences. response to real or imagined threat. Seeks to achieve a balance of energy b) INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE – It protects supply and demand that is within the the self from insult in a hostile environment. It unique biological capabilities of the removes unwanted irritants and pathogens. individual. c) RESPONSE TO STRESS – The way patients Maintaining proper balance involves the responds to nurses. It is developed over time nursing intervention coupled with the and experienced by stressful experience patient’s participation. encountered by the patient. However, if the c) Wholeness – Based on Erikson’s (1964) experience is prolonged, the stress can lead to description, is an open system. damage to the systems. 4 CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES d) PERCEPTUAL AWARENESS/ RESPONSE – It involves gathering of information and a) Conservation of Energy – requires a balance of converting it to a meaningful experience. energy and a constant renewal of energy to maintain life activities. b) Conservation of Structural Integrity – Nurses can limit the amount of tissues involved in a disease by early recognition of functional changes and by nursing intervention. Healing – a process of restoring structural and functional integrity through conservation in defense of wholeness. A c) Conservation of Personal Integrity – Self worth and sense of identity. The most vulnerable become patients. Begins with erosion of privacy and creation of anxiety. Calling them by name. Respecting their wishes Supporting their defenses Valuing personal possessions Providing privacy during procedures Teaching them.