Nursing Theorists and Their Work Flashcards
Founder of Modern Nursing and Pioneer of the Environmental Theory.
Florence Nightingale
Defined nursing as “the act of utilizing and the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery”.
Florence Nightingale
Stated that nursing “ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Florence Nightingale
Identified five (5) environmental factors: fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness or sanitation, and light or direct sunlight.
Florence Nightingale
Pioneered the Theory of Interpresonal Relations.
Hildegard E. Peplau
defined Nursing as “An interpersonal process of therapeutic interactions between an individual who is sick or in need of health services and a nurse specially educated to recognize, respond to the need for help.
Hildegard E. Peplau
Her work is influenced by Henry Stack Sullivan, Percival Symonds, Abraham Maslow, and Neal Elgar Miller
Hildegard E. Peplau
It helps nurses and healthcare providers develop more therapeutic interventions in the clinical setting.
Hildegard E. Peplau
Developed the Care, Cure, Core Theory is also known as the “Three Cs of
Lydia E. Hall
defined Nursing as the “participation in care, core, and cure aspects of patient care, where CARE is the sole function of nurses, whereas the CORE and CURE are shared with other members of the health team.”
Lydia E. Hall
The major purpose of care is to achieve an interpersonal relationship with the individual to facilitate the development of the core.
Lydia E. Hall
The “care” circle defines a professional nurse’s primary role, such as providing bodily care for the patient.
Lydia E. Hall
The “core” is the patient receiving nursing care.
Lydia E. Hall
The “cure” is the aspect of nursing that involves the administration of medications and treatments.
Lydia E. Hall
States in her Human to Human Relationship Model that the purpose of nursing was to help and support an individual, family, or community to prevent or cope with the struggles of illness and suffering and, if necessary, to find significance in these occurrences with the ultimate goal being the presence of hope.
Joyce Travelbee
Nursing was accomplished through human-to-human relationships
Joyce Travelbee
Extended the interpersonal relationship theories of Peplau and Orlando.
Joyce Travelbee
She developed the Nursing Process Theory.
Ida Jean Orlando
“Patients have their own meanings and interpretations of situations, and therefore nurses must validate their inferences and analyses with patients before drawing conclusions.”
Ida Jean Orlando
Allows nurses to formulate an effective nursing care plan that can also be easily adapted when and if any complexity comes up with the patient.
Ida Jean Orlando
According to her, persons become patients requiring nursing care when they have needs for help that cannot be met independently because of their physical limitations, negative reactions to an environment, or experience that prevents them from communicating their needs.
Ida Jean Orlando
The role of the nurse is to find out and meet the patients immediate needs for help
Ida Jean Orlando
She pioneered the Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring.
Jean Watson
“Nursing is concerned with promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health.”
Jean Watson
Mainly concerns with how nurses care for their patients and how that caring progresses into better plans to promote health and wellness, prevent illness and restore health.
Jean Watson
Focuses on health promotion, as well as the treatment of diseases
Jean Watson
Caring is central to nursing practice and promotes health better than a simple medical care.
Jean Watson
According to the Conservation Model, “Nursing is human interaction.”
Myra Estrin Levine
Provides a framework within which to teach beginning nursing students.
Myra Estrin Levine
Logically congruent, externally and internally, consistent, has breadth and depth, and is understood, with few exceptions, by professionals and consumers of health care.
Myra Estrin Levine
Theory of Unitary Human Beings
Martha E. Rogers
In Roger’s Theory of Human Beings, she defined Nursing as “an art and science that is humanistic and humanitarian.”
Martha E. Rogers
The Science of Unitary Human Beings contains two dimensions: the science of nursing, which is the knowledge specific to the field of nursing that comes from scientific research; and the art of nursing which involves using nursing creatively, to help better the loves of the patient.
Martha E. Rogers
A patient can’t be separated from his or her environment when addressing health and treatment.
Martha E. Rogers