Nursing Theories and Definition
Nursing Theories and Definition
Nursing Theories and Definition
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1. Florence Nightingale Environmental Theory Act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery.
3. Myra Estrin Levine Four Conservation Principles Promote adaptation and maintain wholeness using the principles of conservation.
Nursing is based on an art and science that molds the attitudes, intellectual
11. Faye Glenn Abdellah 21 Nursing Problems theory competencies, and technical skills of the individual nurse into the desire and ability to
help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.
The person as a behavioral system with seven subsystems: the achievement,
12. Dorothy Johnson Behavioral System Model attachment-affiliative, aggressive protective, dependency, ingestive, eliminative, and
sexual subsystems.
The theory views nursing as both a science and an art as it provides a way to view
Science of Unitary Human Beings
13. Martha Rogers the unitary human being, who is integral with the universe. The unitary human being
SUHB
and his or her environment are one.
The person's relationship to stress, response, and reconstitution factors that are
14. Betty Neuman Neuman Systems Model NSM
progressive in nature.
The nurse's role is to find out and meet the patient's immediate needs for help. All
15. Ida Jean Orlando Deliberative Nursing Process patient behavior can be a cry for help, both verbal and non-verbal, and it is up to
the nurse to interpret the behavior and determine the needs of the patient.
The practice of identifying a patient’s need for help through the observation of
presenting behavior and symptoms, exploration of the meaning of those symptoms,
16. Ernestine Wiedenbach The helping art of clinical nursing determination of the cause of discomfort, the determination of the patient’s ability to
resolve the patient’s discomfort, or determining if the patient has a need for help
from the nurse or another health care professional.
Works to bring focus to nursing as a new discipline that was to have its unique
17. Jean Watson Human Caring theory values, knowledge, and practices as well as distinct ethics and missions to the
society.
Provides nurses with a foundation necessary to connect therapeutically with other
18. Joyce Travelbee Human-to-Human Relationships theory human beings. The assumptions involve humans, who are nurses, relating to
humans who are suffering, are in distress, or have the potential to suffer.
Nursing education should be founded in experience, and that a nurse's training
19. Josephine Paterson and Loretta
Humanistic model should focus as much on the nurse's ability to relate to and interact with patients as
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a scientific and medical background.
Nurses develop skills and an understanding of patient care over time from a
21. Patricia Benner From Novice to Expert
combination of a strong educational foundation and personal experiences.
22. Anne Boykin and Savina Caring is expressed in nursing and is “the intentional and authentic presence of the
Nursing As Caring
Schoenhofer nurse with another who is recognized as living in caring and growing in caring.
Providing taxonomy for identifying and labeling nursing concepts to allow for their
23. Joyce Fitzpatrick Life Perspective Rhythm Model
universal recognition and communication with others.
The effect of retirement as a phase of one's life and its accompanying adjustments.
24. Sr. Letty Kuan retirement and role discontinuities She identified the determinants of positive perceptions in retirement and positive
reactions toward role discontinuities.
A framework on non-pharmacologic, non-surgical approach of care to advanced
cases of cancer patients. The focus is not on cure but on assisting the patient to
25. Carmencita Abaquin Prepare me theory
explore her humanity and internal serenity as one is faced with the challenge of life
and death.
Caring personality rests on the possession of a care complex with in a person as an
energy source of caring. The framework explains and predicts the continuous
26. Sister Carolina Agravante Care complex
formation of nursing leadership behavior in nursing faculty that will eventually affect
their teaching function.
The Nursing Profession can actively deliver quality care through biobehavioral caring
and interventions like COMPUSURE BEHAVIOR because regardless of creed, social
27. Carmencita Divinagracia Divinagracia’s theory
class, gender, age and nationality each one needs humane caring, spiritually oriented
interventions that can facilitate wellness.