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Florence Nightingale-: Ernestine Wiedenbach
Florence Nightingale-: Ernestine Wiedenbach
Nursing- external force that acts to preserve the § Systems Model Theory
organization
LOD- Line of Defense
Environment- consists of factors that are not part
of BMS -‐ Primary Prevention- reduction of
possible risk factors
-‐ Secondary Prevention- reduce the
noxious effects
Sister Callista Roy -‐ Tertiary Prevention- adjustment of
processes
§ Roy Adaptation Model
§ Adaptation- a conceptual framework for Major Concept of her Theory
nursing
§ Considered a “systems” model o Content- comprise the whole client
system
Defines: o Entrophy- process of energy depletion
o Flexible LOD- protective
-‐ Adaptation- process and outcome
o Normal LOD- usual state of LOD
whereby thinking and feeling persons
-‐ Nursing- health care profession that LOR- Line of Resistance -series of concentric
focuses on human life processes circles
-‐ Nursing science- developing system of
knowledge § Stressors- environmental factors
-‐ Nursing practice- essential services § Prevention- primary nursing
intervention
Goal of Nursing- promotion of adaptation for
individuals and groups in 4 adaptive models Defines:
-‐ Physiological- physical and chemical Environment- totality if the internal and external
processes forces
-‐ Self concept-focuses on psychological
and spiritual integrity Health- equated with wellness
-‐ Role function- roles that indivuals
Nursing- unique profession concerned with all
occupy in society
variables
-‐ Interdependence- close relationship of
people and their purpose
Goal: nurse to act deliberately rather than • Person- caring and capable of being
automatically concerned about basic needs
• Environment- Not defined
Metaparadigm • Nursing- a learned humanistic and
scientific profession focused on human
Human- an individual in need
care phenomena
Health- being without physical or emotional
Professional Nursing Care- formal and
discomfort
cognitively learned professional care knowledge
Environment- occurs when there’s a nurse-
Culturally Congruent (Nursing)
patient contact
Ethnonursing- the study of nursing care beliefs
Nursing- distinct profession
Transcultural Nursing- evolving knowledge
and practices related to new field
Joyce Travelbee
Interactional Phases
Metaparadigm