Module 3: Conceptual Models Flashcards
Proponent of Conservation Model
Myra Estrin Levine
*Private Duty Nurse (1944)
*Civilian Nurse U.S Army (1945)
*Preclinical Instructor of Physical Sciences at Cook Country
*School of Nursing (1947-1950)
*Director Drexel Home in Chicago (1950-1951)
*Surgical Supervisor at University of Chicago Clinics (1951-1952)
*Surgical Supervisor at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit (1956- 1962)
Myra Estrin Levine
- Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska (1951)
*Cook Country School of Nursing (1963-1967)
*Loyola University (1967-1973)
*Rush University (1974-1977)
*University of Illinois (1962-1963, 1977-1987)
*Graduate Nursing Program in Rush University (1974-1977)
*Director, Department of Continuing Education at Evanson
*Hospital (March to June 1974)
Myra Estrin Levine
*Associate Professor of Humanistic Studies at the University of Illinois (1981-1987)
*Professor Emerita,MS Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago
*Member, American Health Aid to Israel (1976)
*First recipient of the Elizabeth Russell Belford Award for Excellence in Teaching from Sigma Theta Tau (1977) American Journal of Nursing Book of the year Award (Introduction to Clinical Nursing)
Myra Estrin Levine
*Elected Fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago (1987- 1991)
*Published a substantial enhancemment and clarification of her theory in “The Four Conservation Principles”: Twenty Years Later”
Myra Estrin Levine
December 12, 1921- DOB
March 20, 1996- Death
Myra Estrin Levine
Theoretical Sources of Conservation Model
BELAND’S (1971) theory of specific causation and multiple factors.
Gibson’s (1966) definition of perceptual systems
Erikson’s (1964,1968) differentiation between total and whole
Selye’s (1956) stress theory
Bate’s (1967) model of external environment
Rogers (1970) edited her 1st publication
Nightingale- “guardian activity”
“Conservation” means “______________”
to keep together
_______________ is a natural law which “describes the way complex systems are able to continue to function even when severely challenged”
Conservation
Conserving wholeness (health) and integrity with the adaptive capability of the individual critical for retaining organismic integrity in the midst of constant changes within the internal & external environments.
Adaption
3 Characteristic of Adaptation
Historicity
Specificity
Redundancy
genetics and patterns of life experiences
Historicity
response to specific environmental challenges
Specificity
availability of multiple adaptive responses
Redundancy
Integrated holistic response that involves the entire bio-pyscho-social-spiritual organism.
Organismic Response (Holistic Response)
4 LEVELS OF PROTECTIVE ORGANISMIC
RESPONSE
Response to fear (fight or flight)
Inflammatory-immune response
Response to stress
Sensory response
4 Conservation Principles
Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Structural Integrity
Conservation of Personal Integrity
Conservation of Social Integrity
typical of the natural defense against disease processes
Conservation of Energy
_____________ during acute illness demands nursing intervention which cautiously balances the individual’s resource with the expenditure he can safely afford” (Levine, 1967b, p.48)
Energy conservation
structure & function are strongly interrelated, complementary aspects of the human organism.
Conservation of Structural Integrity
“Therefore, nursing interventions to ensure adequate energy to support the function of life processes must be balance by iinterventions to conserve the normal structure of the body”. (Levine, 1967b)
Conservation of Structural Integrity
valuing self-identity, self- worth, and self-respect, also reflecting the understanding that “the body does not exist separately from the mind, emotions, and soul” (Levine, 1967b, pp.53-54).
Conservation of Personal Integrity
To ____________________: Patient education; promoting patient participation (decision-making & informed consent for treatment; protection of patient privacy & personal possessions; support of cultural & religious practices.
conserve personal integrity
reflected in the dynamic relationships among human beings (Levine, 1967b)
Conservation of Social Integrity
Family is a critical social unit and the life of each individual is “woven in the fabric” of family, with the constitution of the social group that is “family” defined by each individual patient.
Conservation of Social Integrity
Major Assumptions
“A holistic approach to care of all people, well or sick” (p.151) and respect for the individuality of each person”.
Myra Estrin Levine ; Conservation Model
Major Assumptions
“Ultimately decisions for nursing
interventions must be based on the unique behavior of the individual patient..Patient centered nursing care means individualized nursing care..and as such he requires a unique constellation of skills, techniques, & ideas designed specifically for him”.
Myra Estrin Levine ; Conservation Model
The person can be understood only in the context of the environment (Levine 1973).
“Every self-sustaining system monitors its own behavior by conserving the use of the resources required to define its unique identity” (Levine, 1991, p.4).
Human beings respond in singular, yet integrated fashion (Levine, 1971c).
SCHAEFER(1996) Assumptions about the Model
“A human interaction” & as both a profession & a scientific discipline.
Nursing
is based on nursing’s unique knowledge and the scientific knowledge of other disciplines adjunctive to nursing knowledge (Levine, 1988).
Nursing practice
alternative for nursing diagnosis; use of scientific method to develop a nursing judgment.
Trophicognosis
“__________ is a profession as well as an academic discipline, always practiced and studied in concert with all of the disciplines that together form the health sciences”.
Nursing
Holistic being characterized by wholeness and integrity, identity, and self-worth.
Person
“System of systems, and its wholeness expresses the organization of all the contributing parts”.
Person
_________-“to suffer”; _________- “to follow”
Patient ; client
Ability to function in a reasonably normal manner.
Health