FILIPINO NURSING THEORISTS  Person/Patient

- Patient in advance stages of cancer

- Physical, psychological, sexual,
1. Carmencita Abaquin  Environment
- Aspect or a diversion integrated to the
 “Prepare Me Theory” – improve the quality of cancer patient
life - Diversion: nurse, chemotherapy
 Holistic” Nursing Interactions  Health
o Multi-dimensional properties of - C
cancer patients or end stage renal  Quality Life
failure, multiple organ failure and - Multifaceted construct that
dying elderly. encompasses the individuals’
o Social, Physical, Emotional, capabilities and abilities of enriching life
Spiritual when it can no longer be prolonged.
 Nursing
- Goal: improvement of quality of life.
1. Presence
o Having with another person
o Therapeutic communication, active APPROACH
listening, touch, don’t provide false
hope.  How to care for cancer patients
2. Reminisce Therapy  Improve the quality of life of patients with
o Recall of past experiences, feelings, cancer and other chronic diseases/terminal
illnesses.
and thoughts to facilitate adaptation
to prevent circumstances.
3. Relaxation and Breathing
o Techniques to encourage and elate
relaxation
o Decreases undesirable signs and
symptoms, such as pain, muscle
tension, and anxiety.
4. Meditation
o Alters patients’ level of awareness
o Focusing on an image or thought to
facilitate inner sight which helps
establish connection and
relationship with God.
o Use of music and other relaxation
techniques
o To divert the attention of the patient
from the pain.
5. Values
o Assisting individual, clarify his own
values about health and illness in
order to facilitate effective decision-
making skills
o Open-mind: acceptance of disease;
enhance values
o Process: helps become internally
consistent.
o DABDA (Denial, Anger, Bargaining,
Despair/Depression, Acceptance)

METAPARADIGM
 - Is a positive index regarding retirement
positively and also in reacting to role
2. Sister Letty G. Kuan discontinuities.
3. Income
 “Retirement and Role Discontinuation”
- Has a high correlation with both the
 Retirement – inevitable change
perception of retirement and reaction
towards role discontinuation.
4. Work Status
BASIC ASSUMPTIONS AND CONCEPTS - Goes hand and hand with economic
security that generates decent
1. Physiological Age
compensation.
- wear and tear, get old when time glows
- For the retired, it implies the retirement
2. Role
should not be conceptualized as a
- Set of shared expectations focused
period of no work because capabilities
upon a particular position.
to function get sharpened and refined as
3. Change of Life
they practice it on a regular basis.
- Present between near retirement and
- Work enhances the aspects of self-
post-retirement.
esteem and contributes to the feeling of
4. Retiree
wellness even and old age.
- Left the assumed role
5. Self-preparation
5. Role Discontinuity
- Therapeutic and recreational in essence
- Interruption in the status, performed
pays its worth in old age.
6. Coping Approaches
- This does not only account
- Interventions or measures applied to
professionalism or expertise but also
solve a problematic situation state in
benevolent work as in charitable actions
order to restore or maintain equilibrium
with colleagues.
and normal functioning
- Self-preparation is investigating not in
- Adjustments
monetary benefits but in something that
gives them and dignity; enhance their
feelings of self-worth and happiness.
DETERMINANTS 6. To cope with the changes brought by
retirement
1. Health Status - Cultivate interest in recreational
- physiological and mental state of the activities to channel feelings of
respondents, classified as either sickly depression or isolation and facing
or healthy. realities through confrontation with some
2. Income issues.
- Financial affluence (economic level) 7. To perceive retirement positively
3. Work Status - Early socialization of the various roles
- Status of an individual according to we take in life.
his/her work. 8. Government Agency
4. Family Constellation - To construct holistic pre-retirement
- Family compensation preparation program which will take care
5. Self-Reparation of the retiree’s finances, psychological,
- It is preparing of self to the possible emotional, and social needs.
outcome of life. 9. Retirement
- Should be recognized as the fulfillment
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
of every individual’s birthright and must
1. Health Status be lived
- Dictates the capacities and the type of
role one takes both for the present and
for the future “I have grown and sown and now I can reap the
- It fits for everyone to maintain and reward and blessing of a life lived in joy and love, for I
promote health at all ages because only do have made others grow.”
proper care of the mind and body is
needed to maintain health in old age. - Prof. Letty Gurdiel Kuan, RN, RGC, EdD
2. Family Constellation

3. Ma. Irma Bustamante
 “Towards the Enhancement of Self-Esteem
for the Abused Women”
BACKGROUND
 Women abuse has been recognized as an
increasing social problem affecting women of
all ages, race, creed, nationality, and
socioeconomic status.
 To explore the women’s perception of
womanhood and self-esteem.
 The study is about women abuse and how
these women can be helped the critical
social therapy and feminist principles are
most appropriate framework to us.
3 MAJOR PRINCIPLES IN FEMINIST BELIEF
SYSTEM
 Recognition of the fact that women are
oppressed
 The personal is political
 Consciousness raising
The information from the literature greatly helped this
researcher in developing a broad insight on the
problem investigated.
4. Sr. Carolina S. Agravante
 “CASAGRA Transformative Leadership
Theory”
 The model is a Three-Fold Transformation
Leadership Concept rolled into one,
comprising of the following elements:
a. Servant-Leader Spirituality
b. Self-Mastery
c. Special Expertise
CONCEPTS
- The CASAGRA Transformative
Leadership Model have concepts of
leadership from a psycho-spiritual point
of view, designed to lead to radical
change from apathy or indifference to a
spiritual person.
I. Servant-Leader Formula
- The enrichment package prepared as
intervention for the study which has
three parts that parallel the three
concepts of the CASAGRA
transformative leadership model,
namely: the care complex prime, a
retreat-workshop on Servant-leadership,
and a seminar-workshop on
Transformative Teaching for nursing
faculty.
- Care Complex is the nucleus of care
experiences in the personality of a
nurse.
5. Cecilia Caureter
 January-June 1987
- Categories of Nursing Activities in
Medical-Surgical Ward Units in Selected
Government and Private Hospitals in
Metro Manila
o The other entry point of helping
the patient is through the family
when the nurse can be of great
assistance to prevent the very
beginning serious
complications.
o The nurse can help strengthen
the family’s term of knowledge,
skills, and attitude through
effective communication
employed informative,
psychotherapeutic, modeling,
behavioral, cognitive
behavioral, and or hypnotic
techniques are summarized
and evaluated
CONCEPTS
 ANXIETY
- a mental state of nervousness
- Factors: Presence, Concern, Stimulation
 Predisposing Factors: Age, Sex, Civil Status,
Educational Status, Length of work,
Experience.
 Enhancing Factors: one’s caring experience,
beliefs, and attitude, feeling good about,