Nurse Care Plan

THEORIST

GOAL OF NURSING

FRAMEWORK FOR PRACTICE

Nightingale-1860

To facilitate the bodys reparative process by manipulating clients environment

Clients environment is manipulated to include appropriate noise, nutrition, hygiene, light, comfort, socialization, and hope.

Peplau- 1952

To develop interaction between nurse and client

Nursing is a significant therapeutic, interpersonal process. Nurses participate in structuring healt cars system to facilitate natural ongoing tendency of humans to develop interpersonal relationships.

Henderson-1955

To work independently with other health care workers, assisting client in gaining independence as quickly as possible; to help client gain lacking strength

Nurses help client to perform Henderson’s 14 basic needs.

Abdellah-1960

To provide service to individuals, families, and society; to be kind and caring but also intelligent, competent, and technically well prepared to provide this service.

This theory involves Abdellah’s 21 nursing problems

Rogers-1970

To maintain and promote health, prevent illness, and care for the rehabilitate ill and disabled client through Humanistic science of nursing.

Unitary man evolves along life process. Clients continuously changes and coexist with environment.

Orem-1971

To care for and help client attain total self-care.

This is self care deficit theory. Nursing care becomes necessary when client is unable to fulfill biological, psychological, developmental, or social needs.

King-1971

To use communication to help client reestablish positive adaptation to environment.

Nursing process is defined as dynamic interpersonal process between nurse, client and health care system.

Neuman-1972

To assist individuals, families, and groups in attaining and maintaining maximal level of total wellness and purposeful interventions.

Stress reduction is goal of system model of nursing practice. Nursing actions are primary, secondary or tertiary level of prevention.

Leininger-1978

To provide care consistent with nursing’s emerging’ science and knowledge with caring as central focus.

With this transcultural care theory, caring is the central and unifying domain for nursing knowledge and practice.

Roy-1979

To identify types of demands placed on client, assess adaptation to demands, and help client adapt.

This adaptation model id based on the physiological, psychological, sociological, and dependence-independence adaptive models.

Watson-1979

To promote health, restore client to health, and prevent illness

This theory involves philosophy and science of caring; caring is interpersonal process comprising interventions that result in meeting human needs.

Brenner & Wrubel-1989

To focus on clients need for caring as a means of coping with stressors of illness

Caring is central to the essence of nursing. Caring crates the possibilities for coping and enables possibilities for connecting with and concern for others.