Nursing Theorists

Nursing Theorists

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Definitions Theory a set of related statements that describes or explains phenomena in a systematic way Concept a mental idea of a phenomenon Concepts are the building blocks—the primary elements—of a theory. Construct- a phenomena that cannot be observed and must be inferred Constructs are concepts developed or adopted for use in a particular theory. The key concepts of a given theory are its constructs. Proposition a statement of relationship between concepts Conceptual model- made up of concepts and propositions They epresent ways of thinking about a problem or ways of representing how complex things work the way that they do. Different Frameworks will emphasize different variables and outcomes and their interrelatedness.( Bordage, 2009) Models may draw on a number of theories to help understand a particular problem in a certain setting or context. They are not always as specified as theory. Variables Variables are the operational forms of constructs. They define the way a construct is to be measured in a specific situation. Match variables to constructs when identifying what needs to be assessed during evaluation of a theory-driven program. Nursing Theorists Florence Nightingale, Hildegard Peplau Virginia Henderson Fay Abdella Ida Jean Orlando Dorothy Johnson Martha Rogers Dorothea Orem Imogene King Betty Neuman Sister Calista Roy, Jean Watson Rosemary Rizzo Parse Madeleine Leininger Patricia Benner Concepts in the nursing Metaparadigms 1.Person Recipient of care, including physical, spiritual, psychological, and sociocultural components. Individual, family, or community 2. Environment All internal and external conditions, circumstances, and influences affecting the person 3. Health Degree of wellness or illness experienced by the person 4. Nursing Actions, characteristics and attributes of person giving care Florence Nightingale- Environmental Theory First nursing theorist Unsanitary conditions posed health hazard (Notes on Nursing, 1859) 5 components of environment ventilation, light, warmth, effluvia, noise External influences can prevent, suppress or contribute to disease or death Nightingale’s Concepts 1. Person Patient who is acted on by nurse Affected by environment Has reparative powers 2. Environment Foundation of theory. Included everything, physical, psychological, and social 3. Health Maintaining well-being by using a person’s powers Maintained by control of environment 4. Nursing Provided fresh air, warmth, cleanliness, good diet, quiet to facilitate person’s reparative process Hildegard Peplau -Interpersonal Relations Model Based on psychodynamic nursing using an understanding of one’s own behavior to help others identify their difficulties Applies principles of human relations Patient has a felt need Peplau’s Concepts 1. Person An individual; a developing organism who tries to reduce anxiety caused by needs Lives in instable equilibrium 2. Environment Not defined 3. Health Implies forward movement of the personality and human processes toward creative, constructive, productive, personal, and community living 4. Nursing A significant, therapeutic, interpersonal process that functions cooperatively with others to make health possible Involves problem-solving Virginia Henderson -The Nature of Nursing "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible. She must in a sense, get inside the skin of each of her patients in order to know what he needs". Fay Abdella- Topology of 21 Nursing Problems A list of 21 nursing problems Condition presented or faced by the patient or family. Problems are in 3 categories physical, social and emotional The nurse must be a good problem solver Abdella’s Concepts 1. Nursing A helping profession A comprehensive service to meet patient’s needs Increases or restores self-help ability Uses 21 problems to guide nursing care 2. Health Excludes illness No unmet needs and no actual or anticipated impairments 3. Person One who has physical, emotional, or social needs The recipient of nursing care. 4. Environment Did not discuss much Includes room, home, and community Ida Jean Orlando- Deliberative Nursing Process The deliberative nursing process is set in motion by the patient’s behavior All behavior may represent a cry for help. Patient’s behavior can be verbal or non-verbal. The nurse reacts to patient’s behavior and forms basis for determining nurse’s acts. Perception, thought, feeling Nurses’ actions should be deliberative, rather than automatic Deliberative actions explore the meaning and relevance of an action. Dorothy Johnson-Behavioral Systems Model The person is a behavioral system comprised of a set of organized, interactive, interdependent, and integrated subsystems Constancy is maintained through biological, psychological, and sociological factors. A steady state is maintained through adjusting and adapting to internal and external forces. Johnson’s 7 Subsystems Affiliative subsystem social bonds Dependency helping or nuturing Ingestive food intake Eliminative excretion Sexual procreation and gratification Aggressive self-protection and preservation Achievement efforts to gain mastery and control Johnson’s Concepts 1. Person A behavioral system comprised of subsystems constantly trying to maintain a steady state 2. Environment Not specifically defined but does say there is an internal and external environment 3. Health Balance and stability. 4. Nursing External regulatory force that is indicated only when there is instability. Martha Rogers -Unitary Human Beings Energy fields Fundamental unity of things that are unique, dynamic, open, and infinite Unitary man and environmental field Universe of open systems Energy fields are open, infinite, and interactive Pattern Characteristic of energy field A wave that changes, becomes complex and diverse Pandimensionality A nonlinear domain with out time or space Roger’s Definitions Integrality Continuous and mutual interaction between man and environment Resonancy Continuous change longer to shorter wave patterns in human and environmental fields Helicy Continuous, probabilistic, increasing diversity of the human and envrionmental fields. Characterized by nonrepeating rhymicities Change Dorothea Orem- Self-Care Model Self-care comprises those activities performed independently by an individual to promote and maintain person well-being Self care agency is the individual’s ability to perform self care activities Self- care deficit occurs when the person cannot carry out self-care The nurse then meets the self-care needs by acting or doing for; guiding, teaching, supporting or providing the environment to promote patient’s ability Wholly compensatory nursing system-Patient dependent Partially compensatory- Patient can meet some needs but needs nursing assistance Supportive educative-Patient can meet self care requisites, but needs assistance with decision making or knowledge Imogene King-Goal Attainment Theory Open systems framework Human beings are open systems in constant interaction with the environment Personal System individual; perception, self, growth, development, time space, body image Interpersonal Society Personal System Individual; perception, self, growth, development, time space, body image Interpersonal Socialization; interaction, communication and transaction Society Family, religious groups, schools, work, peers The nurse and patient mutually communicate, establish goals and take action to attain goals Each individual brings a different set of values, ideas, attitudes, perceptions to exchange Betty Neuman - Health Care Systems Model The person is a complete system, with interrelated parts maintains balance and harmony between internal and external environment by adjusting to stress and defending against tension-producing stimuli Focuses on stress and stress reduction Primarily concerned with effects of stress on health Stressors are any forces that alter the system’s stability Flexible lines of resistance - Surround basic core Internal factors that help defend against stressors Normal line of resistance - Normal adaptation state Flexible line of defense - Protective barrier, changing, affected by variables Wellness is equilibrium Nursing interventions are activates to: strengthen flexible lines of defense strengthen resistance to stressors maintain adaptation Sister Calista Roy - Adaptation Model Five Interrelated Essential Elements Patiency- The person receiving care Goal of nursing- Adapting to change Health-Being and becoming a whole person Environment Direction of nursing activities- Facilitating adaptation The person is an open adaptive system with input (stimuli), who adapts by processes or control mechanisms (throughput) The output can be either adaptive responses or ineffective responses Jean Watson - Philosophy and Science of Caring Caring can be demonstrated and practiced Caring consists of carative factors Caring promotes growth A caring environment accepts a person as he is and looks to what the person may become A caring environment offers development of potential Caring promotes health better than curing Caring is central to nursing Watson’s 10 Carative Factors Forming humanistic-altruistic value system Instilling faith-hope Cultivating sensitivity to self and others Developing helping-trust relationship Promoting expression of feelings Using problem-solving for decision making Promoting teaching-learning Promoting supportive environment Assisting with gratification of human needs Allowing for existential-phenomenological forces Watson’s Concepts Person Human being to be valued, cared for, respected, nurtured, understood and assisted Environment Society Health Complete physical, mental and social well-being and functioning Nursing Concerned with promoting and restoring health, preventing illness Rosemary Parse - Human Becoming Theory Human Becoming Theory includes Totality Paradigm Man is a combination of biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual factors Simultaneity Paradigm Man is a unitary being in continuous, mutual interaction with environment Originally Man-Living-Health Theory Parse’s Three Principles Meaning Man’s reality is given meaning through lived experiences Man and environment cocreate Rhythmicity Man and environment cocreate ( imaging, valuing, languaging) in rhythmical patterns Cotranscendence Refers to reaching out and beyond the limits that a person sets One constantly transforms Person Open being who is more than and different from the sum of the parts Environment Everything in the person and his experiences Inseparable, complimentary to and evolving with Health Open process of being and becoming. Involves synthesis of values Nursing A human science and art that uses an abstract body of knowledge to serve people Madeleine Leininger - Culture Care Diversity and Universality Based on transcultural nursing, whose goal is to provide care congruent with cultural values, beliefs, and practices Sunrise model consists of 4 levels that provide a base of knowledge for delivering cultural congruent care Modes of nursing action Cultural care preservation help maintain or preserve health, recover from illness, or face death Cultural care accommodation help adapt to or negotiate for a beneficial health status, or face death Cultural care re-patterning help restructure or change lifestyles that are culturally meaningful Patricia Benner - From Novice to Expert Described 5 levels of nursing experience and developed exemplars and paradigm cases to illustrate each level Novice Advanced beginner Competent Proficient Expert Levels reflect: movement from reliance on past abstract principles to the use of past concrete experience as paradigms change in perception of situation as a complete whole in which certain parts are relevant Importance of Theoretical Frameworks Foundation of any profession is the development of a specialized body of knowledge. Theories should be developed in nursing, not borrow theories form other disciplines Responsibility of nurses to know and understand theorists Critically analyze theoretical frameworks Reference Bordage, G. Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify. Medical Education. 2009;43;312-319. Alligood M.R, Tomey. A.M. Nursing theory utilization and application. 2nd Ed. Mosby, Philadelphia, 2002. Tomey AM, Alligood. MR. Nursing theorists and their work. (5th ed.). Mosby, Philadelphia, 2002. George B. Julia , Nursing Theories- The base for professional Nursing Practice , 3rd ed. Norwalk, Appleton and Lange. Wills M.Evelyn, McEwen Melanie (2002). Theoretical Basis for Nursing Philadelphia. Lippincott Williamsand wilkins. Meleis Ibrahim Afaf (1997) , Theoretical Nursing : Development and Progress 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Lippincott. Taylor Carol,Lillis Carol (2001)The Art and Science Of Nursing Care 4th ed. Philadelphia, Lippincott. 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