MYRA ESTRIN LEVINE (1920-1996)

CONSERVATION MODEL
GROUP II –PATRICIA IBASAN|MARIA DIVINA SANTIAGO|STELLA MARIZ CAMPOS|ROSALIA CRUZ
 “Nursing is a human interaction that
promotes adaptation and maintains
wholeness either by acting in the
therapeutic sense or by providing
supportive care in order to influence
adaptation favourably, or toward renewed
social wellbeing.”
She proposed Four Conservation Principles to
guide nursing process:

1. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

2. CONSERVATION OF STRUCTURAL
INTEGRITY
She proposed Four Conservation Principles to
guide nursing process (con’t):

3. CONSERVATION OF PERSONAL
INTEGRITY

4. CONSERVATION OF SOCIAL
INTEGRITY
ADAPTATION
Process of change wherein the person is able to keep his
integrity within situations and circumstances of both internal
and external environment.

HISTORICITY

SPECIFICITY REDUNDANCY
ENVIRONMENT
3 LEVELS OF EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

PERCEPTUAL
LEVEL

OPERATIONAL CONCEPTUAL
LEVEL LEVEL
ORGANISMIC RESPONSE
1. Fight or Flight
2. Inflammatory Response
3. Response to stress
4. Perceptual Awareness