Faye Glenn Abdellah Flashcards
Born in New York City on May 13, 1919
Faye Glenn Abdellah
graduated magna cum laude from Fitkin Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Neptune, New Jersey in 1942
Faye Glenn Abdellah
She has more than 140 publications and received 11 honorary doctorates from various institutions.
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Theory states that nursing is the use of the problem-solving approach with key nursing problems related to the health needs of people
Twenty-One Nursing Problems
The problem solving involves:
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(1) Identifying the problem
(2) selecting the relevant data
(3) formulating the hypothesis
(4) testing the hypothesis through collection of data
(5) revising the hypothesis when necessary on the basis of conclusions obtained from the data
The process emphasizes that the correct identification of nursing problems influences the nurse’s judgment in selecting the next steps in solving the patient’s nursing problems.
Twenty-One Nursing Problems
Abdellah’s Twenty-One Nursing Problems:
Basic to All Patients:
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(1) To maintain good hygiene and physical comfort.
(2) To promote optimal activity: exercise, rest and sleep.
(3) To promote safety through prevention of accidents, injury or other trauma and through the prevention of the spread of infection.
(4) To maintain good body mechanics and prevent and correct deformity.
Abdellah’s Twenty-One Nursing Problems:
Sustenal care needs:
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(5) To facilitate the maintenance of a supply of oxygen to all body
cells
(6) To facilitate the maintenance of nutrition of all body cells.
(7) To facilitate the maintenance of elimination.
(8) To facilitate the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance.
(9) To recognize the physiological responses of the body to disease conditions - pathological, physiological and compensatory.
(10) To facilitate the maintenance of the regulatory mechanism and functions.
(11) To facilitate the maintenance of sensory functions.
Abdellah’s Twenty-One Nursing Problems:
Remedial Care Needs:
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(12) To identify and accept positive and negative expressions, feelings and reactions
(13) To identify and accept interrelatedness of emotions and organic illness.
(14) To facilitate maintenance of effective verbal and non verbal communications.
(15) To promote the development of productive interpersonal relationships.
(16) To facilitate progress toward achievement and personal spiritual goals.
(17) To create or maintain a therapeutic environment
(18) To facilitate awareness of self as an individual with varying physical, emotional, and developmental needs.
Abdellah’s Twenty-One Nursing Problems:
Restorative Care Needs:
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(19) To accept the optimum possible goals in the light of limitations, physical and emotional.
(20) To use community resources as an aid in resolving problems arising from illness.
(21) To understand the role of social problems as influencing factors in the cause of illness.
She describes the recipients of nursing care as individuals, families and society.
Abdellah
Person
Her 21 nursing problems deal with biological,
psychological and social areas of individuals - describing people as having physical, emotional and sociological needs.
Abdellah
Person
The needs of the individual may be overt - physical needs or covert - emotional and social needs.
Abdellah
Person
In her Patient Centered Approaches to Nursing, health is a state that is mutually exclusive of illness.
She implicitly defined health as a state when the individual has no unmet needs and no anticipated or actual impairments.
Abdellah
Health
The environment is the least discussed concept.
Society is included in “planning for optimum health on local, state, national and international levels.
As she further delineates her ideas, the focus of nursing service is the individual.
Abdellah
Environment
