FAYE GLEN ABDELLAH Flashcards
Faye Glen Abdellah was born on
March 13, 1919
Got a Nursing Diploma from
Fitkin Memorial Hospital
Got some degrees in
Columbia University
3 degrees of Faye Glen Abdellah
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing 1945
• Master’s degree in Physiology 1947
• Doctorate in Education 1955
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May 6, 1937
“Nursing is based on an art and science that moulds the attitudes, intellectual competencies, and technical skill of the individual nurse into the desire and ability to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.”
Abdellah’s Theory
Having physical, emotional and sociological needs.
PERSON
Needs may be overt consisting largely physical needs
PERSON
Or covert such as emotional, sociological and interpersonal needs - which are often missed and perceived incorrectly
PERSON
Effective communication between patient and caregiver. Information is accurate, timely, and appropriate.
Nursing Responsibilities
Do everything possible to alleviate patients pain and make them feel comfortable
Nursing Responsibilities
We provide emotional support and alleviate fears and anxiety
We involve family and friends in every phase of our patients care
Patient is described as the only justification for the existence of nursing
Nursing Responsibilities
Does not give a definition of health
“Total health needs” and “a healthy state of mind and body” in her description of nursing as a comprehensive service
HEALTH
Home or community from which patient comes.
Society is included in “planning for optimum health on local, state, national and international levels.”
ENVIRONMENT
” Nursing is based on an art and science that mold the attitudes, intellectual competencies, and technical skills of the individual nurse into the desire and ability to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.”
NURSING
Comprehensive nursing service
Service to individuals, to families and therefore to society.
Goal of nursing is the fullest physical, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual functioning of the client which pertains to holistic care.
NURSING
11 Nursing Skills
• Observation of health status
• Skills of communication
• Application of Knowledge
• Teaching of patients and families
• Planning and organization of work
• Use of resource materials
• Use of personnel resources
• Problem Solving
• Direction of work of others
• Therapeutic use of the self
• Nursing procedures
Four categories of patient needs
• Basic to all patients
• Substernal care needs
• Remedial care needs
• Restorative care needs
Serve as a knowledge base for nursing (categorized according to needs)
Twenty - One Nursing Problems
States that nursing is the use of the problem - solving approach with key nursing problems related to the health needs of people.
Abdellah’s Theory
The patient’s health needs can be viewed as problems, which may be overt as an apparent condition, or covert as a hidden or concealed one.
NURSING PROBLEMS
Presented y a patient is a condition faced by the patients or patient’s family that the nurse, through the performance of professional functions, can assist them to meet.
NURSING PROBLEM
In her typology of basic nursing problems presented by patients, she includes 3 columns:
- basic nursing problems presented by the patient
- specific problem of patient
- common conditions
- To accept the optimum possible goals in the light of limitations, physical, and emotional
- To use community resources as an aid in resolving problems arising from illness
- To understand the role of social problems as influencing factors in the cause of illness
RESTORATIVE CARE NEEDS
- To maintain good hygiene and physical comfort
- To promote optimal activity: exercise, rest, and sleep
- To promote safety through prevention of accident, injury, or other trauma and through the prevention of the spread of infection.
- To maintain good body mechanics and prevent and correct deformity.
BASIC TO ALL PATIENTS
- Facilitate the maintenance of a supply of oxygen to all body cells
- To facilitate the maintenance of nutrition of all body cells
- To facilitate the maintenance of elimination
- To facilitate the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance
- To recognize the physiological responses of the body to disease conditions
- To facilitate the maintenance of regulatory mechanisms and functions
- To facilitate the maintenance of sensory function
SUSTENAL CARE NEEDS
- To identify and accept interrelatedness of emotions and organic illness
- To identify and accept positive and negative expressions, feelings, and reactions
- To facilitate the maintenance of effective verbal and nonverbal communication
- To promote the development of productive interpersonal relationships
- To facilitate progress toward achievement of personal spiritual goals
- To create and/or maintain a therapeutic environment
- To facilitate awareness of self as an individual with varying physical, emotional, and
developmental needs
REMEDIAL CARE NEEDS
What are the 4 parts of Abdellah’s Typology of 21 Nursing problems
- BASIC TO ALL PATIENTS
- SUSTENAL CARE NEEDS
- REMEDIAL CARE NEEDS
- RESTORATIVE CARE NEEDS
o Learn to know the patient
o Sort out relevant and significant data
o Analyze and make generalizations about available data
o Identify the therapeutic plan
o Test generalizations with the patient and make additional generalizations
o Validate the patient’s conclusion about his nursing problems
o Continue to observe and evaluate the patient over time to identify any attitudes
and clues affecting his behavior
o Explore the patient’s and family’s reaction to the therapeutic plan and involve them
in the plan
o Identify how the nurse feels about the patient’s nursing problems
o Discuss and develop a comprehensive nursing care plan
10 WAYS TO IDENTIFY A CLIENT’S PROBLEM
Abdellah’s theory has interrelated the concepts of health, nursing problems and
problem solving as she attempts to create a different way of viewing nursing
phenomenon.
CHARACTERISTICS
o The major limitation of Abdellah theory and the twenty-one nursing problems is their very strong nursing centered orientation. With the orientation appropriate use might be the organization of teaching content for nursing students, the evaluation of a
students, performance in the clinical area or both. But in terms of client care there is
little emphasis on what the client is to achieve.
LIMITATIONS
