NURSING GRAND THEORIES: MODELS OF HALL, ABDELLAH, AND HENDERSON

Lydia E. Hall

CARE, CORE, and CURE

Faye Glenn Abdellah

21 Nursing Problem

Virginia Henderson

Need Theory. First Lady of Nursing,” “The Nightingale of Modern Nursing,” and the “Nurse’s Nurse.”

Hall’s definition of Person

The individual human who is 16 years of age or older and past the acute stage of long-term illness. Unique, capable of growth and learning, and requiring a total person approach. The source of energy and motivation for healing is the individual care recipient, not the health care provider.

Hall’s definition of Environment

Any actions taken concerning this are to assist the individual in attaining a personal goal.

Loeb Center’s Concept

focuses on providing an environment that is conducive to self-development.

Hall’s definition of Health

Can be inferred as a state of self-awareness. A dynamic state; not just the absence of disease but progress toward selfactualization.

Hall’s definition of Nursing

Identified as participating in the care, core, and cure aspects of patient care. Focuses mainly on the care aspect while supporting the core and cure components.

Care

The role of nurses, focusing on performing the task of nurturing patients. Defines a primary role of nurses, where the nurse gives hands-on bodily care to the patient’

Nurturing

factors that make up the concept of mothering (care and comfort of the person) and provide teaching-learning activities

Core

Centers entirely on the patient. Nurses help patients put their feelings about their illness and its impact into words. Focuses on the patient’s emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual needs within the context of their family, community, and the world

Cure

Medical side of nursing. Specifically administering treatments and managing medications. Treating an illness or disease requires a team approach

Abdellah’s definition of Person

Recipients of nursing: Family and Society

Abdellah’s definition of Health

the purpose of nursing services.

Abdellah’s definition of Environment

Included in “planning for optimum health on local, state, national, and international levels” the focus of nursing service is clearly the the focus of nursing service is clearly the individual..

Abdella’s definition of Nursing

Based on an art and science. Use of the problem-solving approach with key nursing problems related to the health needs of people

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Henderson’s definition of Person

Requires help toward achieving independence and completeness or wholeness of mind and body. A complete and independent being with biological, sociological and spiritual components

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Henderson’s definition of Environment

“the aggregate of the external conditions and influences affecting the life and development of an organism.”

Henderson’s definition of Health

Equated help with INDEPENDENCE. that margin of mental physical vigor that allows a person to work most effectively and to reach his highest potential level of satisfaction in life

Henderson’s definition of Nursing

The function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery. “independence in the satisfaction of the human being's 14 fundamental or basic needs.