NURSING THEORIES

Question 1

Focuses on nursing and the patient environment relationship.

Answer 1

Florence Nightingale’s Legacy of caring

Question 2

Helping process meets needs through the art of individualizing care.
Nurses should identify patients ‘need-for –help’ by:

Answer 2

Ernestine Wiedenbach:The helping art of clinical nursing

• Observation
• Understanding client behaviour
• Identifying cause of discomfort
• Determining if clients can resolve problems or have a need for help

Question 3

Patients require help towards achieving independence.

Derived a definition of nursing Identified 14 basic human needs on which nursing care is based.

Answer 3

Virginia Henderson’s Definition of Nursing

Question 4

Nursing problems

Patient’s problems determine nursing care

Answer 4

Faye G.Abedellah’s Typology of twenty one

Question 5

Nursing care is person directed towards self

Answer 5

Lydia E. Hall :Care, Cure,Core model

Question 6

Caring is moral ideal: mind -body – soul engagement with one and other. Caring is a universal, social phenomenon that is only effective when practiced interpersonally considering humanistic aspects and caring

Answer 6

Jean Watson’s Philosophy and Science of caring

Question 7

Caring is central to the essence of nursing. It sets up what matters, enabling connection and concern. It creates possibility for mutual helpfulness.Caring creates - possibilities of coping possibilities for connecting with and concern for others, possibilities for giving and receiving help.
Described systematically five stages of skill acquisition in nursing practice which are?

Answer 7

Patricia Benner’s Primacy of caring

novice,advanced beginner, competent, proficient and expert.