DOROTHY JOHNSON Flashcards
DOROTHY JOHNSON’S THEORY
BEHAVIORAL SYSTEM MODEL
born on August 21, 1919 in Savannah, Georgia.
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She received her A.A. from Armstrong Junior College in Savannah Georgia (1938)
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Her BSN from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (1942)
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MPH from Harvard University in Boston (1948)
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She was an instructor and an assistant professor in pediatric nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
DOROTHY JOHNSON
a professor of nursing at the University of California in Los Angeles
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Her publications include four books, more than 30 articles in periodicals and many papers, reports, proceedings and monographs
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Faculty Award from graduate students
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1977 Lulu Hassenplug Distinguished Achievement Award from the California Nurses Association
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1981 Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Award for Excellence in Nursing
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Died in February 1990 at 80 years of age
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Has two major systems
- Biological System
- Behavioral System
Person
medicine’s focus
Biological System
nursing’s focus
Behavioral System
Supports the idea that the individual is attempting to maintain some balance or equilibrium
Health
Relates to the environment in which the individual exists
Environment
Influenced by all events in the environment
Environment
Primary goal is to foster equilibrium within the individual, which allows for the practice with individuals at any point in the health-illness continuum
Nursing
- Structure
- Function
- System
ASSUMPTIONS
- There is “organization, interaction, interdependency and integration of the parts and elements of behaviors that go to make up the system”
FOUR ASSUMPTION OF SYSTEM
- A system “tends to achieve a balance among the various forces operating withing and upon it and that man strive continually to maintain a behavioral system balance and steady state by more or less automatic adjustments and adaptations to the natural forces impinging upon him”
FOUR ASSUMPTION OF SYSTEM
- A behavioral system, which both requires and results in some degree of regularity and constancy in behavior is essential to man who is to say, it is functionally significant in that it serves a useful purpose, both in social life and for the individual
FOUR ASSUMPTION OF SYSTEM
- “system balance reflects adjustments and adaptations that are successful in some way and to some degree”
FOUR ASSUMPTION OF SYSTEM
From the form the behavior takes and the consequences it achieves can be inferred what “drive” has been stimulated or what “goal” is being sought
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF EACH SUBSYSTEM
Each individual has a “predisposition to act with reference to the goal, in certain ways rather than the other ways” This predisposition is called a “set”
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF EACH SUBSYSTEM
Each subsystem has a repertoire of choices or “scope of action”
the fourth assumption is that it produces “observable outcome” that is the individual’s behavior
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF EACH SUBSYSTEM
System must be “protected” from noxious influences with which system cannot cope”
three functional requirements of each subsite
Each subsystem must be “nurtured” through the input of appropriate supplies from the environment
three functional requirements of each subsite
Each subsystem must be “stimulated” for use to enhance growth and prevent stagnation
three functional requirements of each subsite
These behaviors are “orderly, purposeful and predictable and sufficiently stable and recurrent to be amenable to description and explanation”
three functional requirements of each subsite
social inclusion intimacy and the formation and attachment of a strong social bond
Attachment or affiliative subsystem
approval, attention or recognition and physical assistance
Dependency subsystem
the emphasis is on the meaning and structures of the social events surrounding the occasion when the food is eaten
Ingestive subsystem
human culture have defined different socially acceptable behaviors for excretion of waste but the existence of such a pattern remains different from culture to culture
Eliminative subsystem
both biological and social factor affect the behavior in the sexual subsystem
Sexual subsystem
it relates to the behaviors concerned with protection and self-prevention Johnson vies aggressive subsystem as one that generates a defensive response from the individual when life or territory is being threatened
Aggressive subsystem
provokes behavior that attempt to control the environment intellectual, physical, creative, mechanical and social skills achievement are some of the areas that Johnson recognizes
Achievement subsystem
according to her, “each individual has patterned, pusposeful, repetitive ways of acting that comprises a behavioral system specific to that individual”
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goal is to maintain and restore the person’s behavioral system balance and stability or to help the person achieve a more optimum level of balance and functioning
Nursing
An external force acting to preserve the organization and integration of the patient’s behavior to an optimal level
Nursing
An art and a science, nursing supplies external assistance both before and during system balance and therefore quires knowledge of order, disorder and control
Nursing
activities do not depend on medical authority, but they are complementary to medicine
Nursing
A behavioral system with patterned, repetitive and purposeful ways of behaving that link the person with the environment
Person
Balance is essential for effective and efficient functioning of the person
Person
Perceived health as an elusive, dynamic state influenced by biological, psychological and social factors
Health
Reflected by the organization, interaction, interdependence of the subsystems of the behavioral system
Health
An individual attempts to achieve a balance in this system, which will lead to functional behavior
Health
A lack of balance in the structural or functional requirements of the subsystems leads to poor health
Health
In Johnson’s theory, the environment consists of all the factors that are not part of the individual’s behavioral system, but that influence the system
Environment
The nurse may manipulate some aspects of the environment so the goal of health or behavioral system balance can be achieved for the patient
Environment
The environment is also the source of the sustenal imperatives of protection, nurturance and stimulation that are necessary pre requisites to maintaining health (behavioral system balance)
Environment
