THEORIST THEORY CONCEPT CONCEPT TERMS

Florence Nightingale Environmental - Control of the environment  Health of Houses

Theory - Major component of nursing care;
both healthy and ill
- Focuses on the physical
environment,which she mentioned
being influenced by social and
psychological environment of an
individual
Patricia Benner From Novice to - Knowing how:practical knowledge ;
Expert knowing what:theoretical
explanation
- Clinical practice is an area of inquiry
- Source of knowledge development
- Adapted the Dreyfus model of skill
acquisition
Faye Glenn Abdellah Twenty-One Nursing - Use of the problem-solving
Problems - Process: (1)identifying the problem,
(2)selecting relevant data,
(3)formulating the hypothesis,
(4)testing the hypothesis,
(5)revising the hypothesis when
necessary on the basis of
conclusion obtained from the data
 Ventilation and Warmth
 Light
 Noise
 Cleanliness of rooms, walls and
beddings
 Personal Cleanliness
 Variety
 Nutrition and taking food
 Chattering hopes and advises
 Petty Management
 Observation of the sick
 Five levels of skill acquisition and
development in nursing
 Seven Domains of nursing
practice
 Basic to all patients needs
necessary for survival (1-4)
 Sustental Care Needs maintain
life process (5-11)
 Remedial Care Needs
psychohealth (12-18)
 Restorative Care Needs correct
a disability (19-21)

Virginia Henderson Fourteen - To maintain health, to recover,to  Fourteen fundamental human

Fundamental Human achieve peaceful death needs
Needs - Considered the biological, 1-9: physiological
psychological, sociological and 10&14: psychological
spiritual components 11: spiritual and moral
12&13: occupation and
recreation
 Biophysiological concept
 Concept of Culture
 Interaction-Communication

Lydia Hall Care, Core, Cre - Importance of total person  Care: The Body
approach  Core: The Person
 Cure: The Disease
Ernestine The Prescriptive - Meeting the patient’s perceived  Central purpose “commitment”
Wiedenbach Theory need-for-help 3 essential components
- Situation-Producing theory for a nursing Philosophy:
- Desired situation and the reverence for the gift of
prescription life, respect for dignity,
- Directs action toward a specific goal worth, autonomy and
- “The helping art of clinical nursing” individuality
 Prescription
3 parameters of volutary
action: mutually
understood and agreed
upon action, recipient-
directed action,
practitioner-directed
action
 Realities of the situation
5 realities: the agent, the
recipient, the goal, the
means, the framework