Myra Estrin Levine
CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES
CONSERVATION MODEL
o product of adaptation
o Promote adaptation and
maintain wholeness using 4
principles of conservation
Four domains
Energy- balancing energy input and
output to avoid excessive fatigue.
E.g., Availability of adequate rest;
Sustenance of adequate nutrition
Structural integrity - maintaining or
restoring the body’s structure,
preventing physical breakdown, and
promoting healing.
E.g., Assist patient in ROM exercise,
Preservation of patient’s personal
hygiene
Personal integrity - recognizes the
individual as one who strives for
recognition, respect, self-awareness,
selfhood, and self-determination.
E.g. Acknowledge and preserve
patient’s space needs
Social integrity- a patient is recognized
as someone who resides within a
family, a community, a religious group,
an ethnic group, a political system, and
a nation.
E.g. Help the individual to preserve his
or her place in a family, community, and
society.
o Perceptual - information
recorded by sensory organs
o Operational - aspects of the
environment that are not
directly perceived
o Conceptual - environment of
language, ideas, symbols,
concepts
o
Principle of conserving energy
o Balance the patient's energy
o Output and input
NURSING
o human interaction
Goal: promote adaptation and maintain
wholeness
CORE
• improve a person’s physical
and emotional well-being by
considering the four domains
of conservation
• It guides nurses to concentrate
on the importance and
responses at the level of the
person.
• When an individual is in a
phase of conservation, it
means that the person can
adapt to the health challenges