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Nursing Theory and Theorists
Nursing Theory and Theorists
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Health
Environment
Nursing
Defined Nursing: “The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him
in his recovery.”
Focuses on changing and manipulating the environment in order to put the patient in
the best possible conditions for nature to act.
Identified 5 environmental factors: fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage,
cleanliness/sanitation and light/direct sunlight.
Considered a clean, well-ventilated, quiet environment essential for recovery.
Deficiencies in these 5 factors produce illness or lack of health, but with a nurturing
environment, the body could repair itself.
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Example: Nurse guides a mother how to breastfeed her baby, Counseling a
psychiatric client on more adaptive coping strategies.
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1. The human being is a unified whole, possessing individual integrity and manifesting
characteristics that are more than and different from the sum of parts.
2. The individual and the environment are continuously exchanging matter and energy with each
other
3. The life processes of human beings evolve irreversibly and unidirectionally along a space-time
continuum
4. Patterns identify human being and reflect their innovative wholeness
5. The individual is characterized by the capacity for abstraction and imagery, language and
thought, sensation and emotion
Each individual has patterned, purposeful, repetitive ways of acting that comprises
a behavioral system specific to that individual.
Nursing is broadly grouped into 21 problem areas to guide care and promote the
use of nursing judgement.
Nursing is a comprehensive service that is based on the art and science and aims to help people, sick or
well, cope with their health needs.
21 Nursing Problems
Nursing is a process of action, reaction, and interaction whereby nurse and client share
information about their perception in the nursing situation
Nursing is concerned with promotion health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and
restoring health.
Nursing is a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by
professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human care transactions
She defined caring as a nurturant way or responding to a valued client towards whom the nurse feels a
personal sense of commitment and responsibility. It is only demonstrated interpersonally that results in
the satisfaction of certain human needs. Caring accepts the person as what he/she may become in a
caring environment
Carative Factors:
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1. The promotion of a humanistic-altruistic system of values
2. Instillation of faith-hope
3. The cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and others
4. The development and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings.
5. The systemic use of the scientific problem-solving method for decision making
6. The promotion of interpersonal teaching-learning
7. The provision for supportive, protective and corrective mental, physical, socio-cultural and
spiritual environment
8. Assistance with the gratification of human needs
9. The allowance for existential phenomenological forces