Nursing theories and models
The metaparadigm, Nightingale, Henderson, Orem, Peplau, Roy, Watson, Leininger and how a model guides care.
10 pages
- Callista Roy's adaptation modelRoy sees the person as an adaptive system; the nurse assesses how the person responds to stimuli…
- Dorothea Orem's self-care deficit theory and the nursing systemsOrem says nursing is needed when a person cannot meet their own self-care demands, and the nurse…
- Florence Nightingale's environmental theoryNightingale taught that the nurse helps the body heal itself by keeping the patient's…
- Hildegard Peplau's interpersonal relations theoryPeplau saw nursing as a therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient that moves through…
- Jean Watson's theory of human caringWatson sees caring as the heart of nursing: a real, healing connection between nurse and person…
- Madeleine Leininger's transcultural nursing and culturally congruent careLeininger taught that care must fit the person's culture: the nurse learns their values and…
- Nursing theories and models: grand theories, middle-range theories and why they guide careA nursing theory is an organised way of looking at people, health and care that tells the nurse…
- Standardised nursing languages and the nursing process, in general termsStandardised nursing languages are shared sets of terms for naming nursing problems…
- The nursing metaparadigm: person, environment, health and nursingThe metaparadigm is the set of four broad ideas every nursing theory must define: the person…
- Virginia Henderson's fourteen basic needsHenderson saw the nurse's unique role as helping each person meet 14 basic needs until they can…
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