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to create and/or maintain a therapeutic

environment
Health 18. to facilitate awareness of self as an individual
 Dynamic pattern of functioning with varying physical, emotional, and
 Emphasis: prevention and rehabilitation developmental needs
 Goal: wellness 19. to accept the optimum possible goals in the light
 Patient health needs of limitations, physical and emotional
20. to use community resources as an aid in
Nursing problems resolving problems arising from illness
 Patient health needs= nursing problems 21. to understand the role of social problems as
 A condition faced by the patient or patient’s family influencing factors in the cause of illness
that the nurse, through the performance of
professional functions, can assist them to meet Metaparadigm
 Covert/overt
 More consistent with nursing functions or nursing  Individual/human
goals than that with patient-centered problems  recipients of nursing
 areas of importance: biological,
Problem Solving psychological, and social
 Means of identifying and solving overt and covert  Health
problems  the purpose of nursing services
 “total health needs” and “a healthy state
21 Nursing Problems of mind and body”
 Society/environment
Classified into:  “planning for optimum health on local,
1. Physical, sociological, and emotional needs of state, national, and international levels”
the patient  Focus of nursing service is the individual,
2. types of interpersonal relationships between the not the society
nurse and the patient  Nursing
3. common elements of patient care  Comprehensive service that is
based on an art and science
Abdellah’s 21 Nursing Problems  Aim: to help people, sock or
well, cope with their health
1. to maintain good hygiene and physical comfort needs
2. to promote optimal activity; exercise, rest, and
sleep Classification of Needs
3. to promote safety through the prevention of
accident; injury, or other trauma and through the 1. Basic to all patients
prevention of the spread of infection 2. Sustenal care needs
4. to maintain good body mechanics and prevent 3. Remedial care needs
and correct deformities 4. Restorative care needs
5. to facilitate the maintenance of a supply of
oxygen to all body cells Application of Abdellah’s Theory: Nursing Process
6. to facilitate the maintenance of nutrition of all
body cells 1. Assessment
7. to facilitate the maintenance of elimination 2. Diagnosis
8. to facilitate the maintenance of fluid and 3. Planning
electrolyte imbalance 4. Implementation
9. to recognize the physiological responses of the 5. Evaluation
body to disease conditions-pathological,
physiological, and compensatory
10. to facilitate the maintenance of fluid and
electrolyte imbalance
11. to facilitate the maintenance of sensory functions
12. to identify and accept positive and negative
expressions, feelings, and reactions
13. to identify and accept the interrelatedness of
emotions and organic illness
14. to facilitate the maintenance of effective verbal
and nonverbal communication
15. to promote the development of productive
interpersonal relationships
16. to facilitate progress towards achievement of
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