Betty Neuman Flashcards
the amount of system instability resulting from stressor invasion of the normal LOD.
Degree to reaction
a process of energy depletion and disorganization moving the system toward illness or possible death.
Entropy
a protective, accordion like mechanism that surrounds and protects the normal LOD from invasion by stressors
Flexible LOD
It represents what the client has become over time, or the usual state of wellness. It is considered dynamic because it can expand or contract over time.
Normal LOD
The series of concentric circles that surrounds the basic structure.
Protection factors activated when stressors have penetrated the normal LOD, causing a reaction symptomatology
Line of Resistance (LOR)
The matter, energy, and information exchanged between client and environment that is entering or leaving the system at any point in time.
Input-output
A process of energy conservation that increase organization and complexity, moving the system toward stability or a higher degree of wellness.
Negentropy
A system in which there is continuous flow of input and process, output and feedback. It is a system of organized complexity where all elements are in interaction.
Open system
Interventions modes for nursing action and determinants for entry of both client and nurse in to health care system.
Prevention as intervention
The return and maintenance of system stability, following treatment for stressor reaction, which may result in a higher or lower level of wellness.
Reconstitution
A state of balance of harmony requiring energy exchanges as the client adequately copes with stressors to retain, attain, or maintain an optimal level of health thus preserving system integrity.
Stability
any phenomenon that might penetrate both the F and N LOD, resulting either a positive or negative outcome.
Stressor
is the condition in which all system parts and subparts are in harmony with the whole system of the client.
Wellness
is a state of insufficiency with disrupting needs unsatisfied
Illness
the primary nursing intervention.
focuses on keeping stressors and the stress response from having a detrimental effect on the body.
Prevention
occurs before the system reacts to a stressor.
strengthens the person to enable him to better deal with stressors
Primary Prevention
focuses on preventing damage to the central core by strengthening the internal lines of resistance and/or removing the stressor.
Secondary Prevention
offers support to the client and attempts to add energy to the system or reduce energy needed in order to facilitate reconstitution.
Tertiary Prevention
3 preventions of betty neuman
Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention
action which assist individuals, families and groups to maintain a maximum level of wellness, and the primary aim is stability of the patient/client system, through nursing interventions to reduce stressors.’
Nursing (neuman)
“the condition in which all parts and subparts (variables) are in harmony with the whole of the client (Neuman, 1995)”.
Health
the totality of the internal and external forces (intrapersonal, interpersonal and extra-personal stressors) which surround a person and with which they interact at any given time.”
Environment
Human being is a total person as a client system and the person is a layered multidimensional being.
Person
the variables of the person in interaction with the internal and external environment comprise the whole client system
Concept
