Module 4 : Grand Nursing Theory Flashcards
Derived from conceptual models
Grand Theory
Most complex and widest in scope
Grand Theory
abstract and lack operational definitions
Concepts
abstract and not directly amenable to testing
Proposition
Provides a background of philosophical reasoning that allows nurse scientists to develop middle range theories
Grand Theory
Criteria of Grand Nursing Theories
- Background of the theorist
- Philosophical underpinnings
- Major assumptions, concepts and relationships
- Usefulness
- Testability
- Parsimony
- Value in extending nursing science
The theorist of Nursing Need Theory
Virginia Henderson
Received diploma in nursing from the Army
School of Nursing at Walter Reed Hospital in
1921
A well-known nursing educator and author
Wrote Harmer’s classic book of nursing and
added her personal definition of nursing
Created with other nursing scholars a
curriculum in which education was “patient
centered and organized around nursing
problems rather than medical diagnoses”
Virginia Henderson
Presents the patient as a sum of parts with biophysical needs and the patient is neither client nor consumer
Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
Recognized the importance of increasing patient’s independence so that progress post-hospital would not be delayed
Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
Assumption - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
- Nurses care for patients until patients can
care for themselves once again - Patients desire to return to health
- Nurses are willing to serve
- “Nurses will devote themselves to the
patient day and night” - Nurses should be educated at the
university level in both arts and sciences
Assist the individual, sick or well, in
the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery that he
would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge
Nurse - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
Someone who need nursing care, but did not limit nursing to illness care
Patient - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
maintaining a supportive environment as
part of the 14 activities
Environment - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
means balance in all realms of human life
Health - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
Anything that the individual may require “to maintain or sustain himself comfortably or capably in his situation
Need for help concept - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
If the individual do not see that they need help, they may not take any action to resolve the situation that affect health and wellness
Need for help concept - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
3 Levels of Nurse-Patient Relationship - Nursing Need Theory (Virginia Henderson)
Substitute for the patient
Helper to the patient
Partner with the patient
14 Need Components
Physiological Components
1. Breathe normally
2. Eat and drink adequately
3. Eliminate body wastes
4. Move and maintain desirable postures
5. Sleep and rest
6. Select suitable clothes – dress and undress
7. Maintain body temperature within normal range by adjusting clothing and modifying environment
8. Keep the body clean and well-groomed and protect the integument
9. Avoid dangers in the environment and avoid injuring others
Psychological Aspects of Communicating and Learning
10. Communicate with others in expressing emotions, needs, fears, or opinions.
14. Learn, discover, or satisfy the curiosity that leads to normal development and health and use the available health facilities.
Spiritual and Moral
11. Worship according to one’s faith
Sociologically Oriented to Occupation and Recreation
12. Work in such a way that there is a sense of accomplishment
13. Play or participate in various forms of recreation
Theorist of Core, Care, Cure Model
Lydia Hall
*Born on September 21, 1906
*Worked as the first director of the Loeb
Center for Nursing in the elderly
* a rehabilitation nurse who argued that
follow-up or evaluative care is where
professional nursing is most important
Lydia Hall
Required when persons are not able to provide intimate bodily care for themselves. The nursing intent of this care is to comfort. Visualized 3 aspects of nursing process related to the patient, to supporting sciences and underlying philosophical dynamics
Nursing - Core, Care, Cure Model (Lydia Hall)
Has 3 aspects: the person, the body and the disease which overlaps and influence each other
Patient - Core, Care, Cure Model (Lydia Hall)
“Now when the patient reaches the point where we know he is going to live, he might be interested in learning how to live better before he leaves the hospital. But the one nurse who could teach him, the one nurse who has the background to make this a truly learning situation, is now busy with the new patients in a state of biological crisis
Core, Care, Cure Model (Lydia Hall)