Theorists (TFN) Flashcards
Founder of Modern Nursing and Pioneer of the Environmental Theory.
Florence Nightingale
she defined nursing as “the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist
him in his recovery.”
Florence Nightingale
“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
what are the environmental factors?
1) fresh air
2) pure water
3) efficient drainage
4) cleanliness or sanitation 5) light or direct sunlight
Pioneered the Theory of Interpersonal Relations
Hildegard E. Peplau
her theory 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
Hildegard E. Peplau’s work were influenced by_____
Henry Stack Sullivan, Percival Symonds, Abraham Maslow,
Neal Elgar Miller.
She developed the Nursing Need Theory
Virginia Henderson
Theory that focuses on the importance of increasing the patient’s independence to hasten
their progress in the hospital.
Nursing Need Theory
the theory stated that “The nurse is expected to carry out a physician’s therapeutic plan, but
individualized care is the result of the nurse’s creativity in planning for care.”
Nursing Need Theory
She developed the 21 Nursing Problems Theory
Faye Glenn Abdellah
“Nursing is based on an art and science that molds the attitudes, intellectual
competencies, and technical skills of the individual nurse into the desire and
ability to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.”
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Changed the focus of nursing from disease-centered to patient-centered and
began to include families and the elderly in nursing care.
21 Nursing Problems Theory
The nursing model is intended to guide care in hospital institutions but can also
be applied to community health nursing, as well.
21 Nursing Problems Theory
Developed The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing conceptual model.
Ernestine Wiedenbach
in this theory, the definition of nursing reflects on nurse-midwife experience as “People may differ
in their concept of nursing, but few would disagree that nursing is nurturing or
caring for someone in a motherly fashion.”
The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing conceptual model
this theory guides the nurse action in the art of nursing and specified four elements of
clinical nursing: philosophy, purpose, practice, and art.
The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing conceptual model
in the helping art of clinical nursing, what are the specified four elements of
clinical nursing:
philosophy, purpose, practice, and art. (PPPA)