Source(s) for Theory Development

- Cecilia Laurente is a Filipino Nurse Theorist whose works focused primarily on helping a
patient through support systems, specifically the family.
- she is a nurse focused on family which is a support sytem, as her way to help patients
- in developing the theory, she uses her paper entitled…
- she
- In the recent study of Laurente she states that the other entry point of helping the
patient is through the family, when nurses can be of great assistance to prevent
at the very beginning serious complications. 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
Laurente claims in a recent study that the other access point of assisting the patient id
through the family.
Through good communication, applied informative, psychotherapeutic, modeling,
behavioral, cognitive behavioral, and/or hypnotic strategies, the nurse can assist
increase the family's term of knowledge, skills, and attitude.
- In September 16-17, 1996 at Seoul, Korea, she cited the current situations in Asia that
affect health such as increasing cases of preventable diseases, the re-emergence of old
diseases, and the rising cost of health care. Laurente also cited nursing research aimed
at improving basic nursing services (e.g banana leaves to heal decubitus ulcer and
health education on the use of Home-Based Mother’s Record to improved prenatal
care). She said that more research findings are needed to improve nursing practice and
to influence policy development at all levels, local, national, and international.

Theoretical Assertions

- Anxiety is a mental state of fear or nervousness about what might happen.

Nursing Caring Behavior that Affect Patient’s Anxiety

- Presence- Person to person contact between the client and the nurses.
- Concern- Development in the time through words tops the powerful resources of energy
of person for healing.
- Stimulation- Nurse stimulation through words tops the powerful resources of energy of
person for healing.

Enhancing and Predisposing Factor

- Predisposing factors are defined in these models as factors that exert them
effects prior to a behavior occurring, by increasing or decreasing a person
or population’s motivation to undertake that particular behavior.
 Theoretical Assertions (THEORETICAL MODEL)

PREDISPOSING FACTORS

- Age, Sex, Civil Status,

Educational Background,
and Length of Work
Experience.

PREDISPOSING FACTORS

- Age, Sex, Civil Status, Decreased Anxiety

Educational Background,
and Length of Work
ENHANCING FACTORS Experience.

- Caring Experience, Beliefs

and attitude, Feeling good,
Learning Caring, Patients
to nurse, Coping
mechanisms.

APPLICATIONS TO NURSING

- Communication is the key when getting nurses to engage patients and families in their
care.