Theorist Theory Theory Description Metaparadign

Environment Person Health Nursing

- Conceptual System is concerned - an understanding of the -unique and holistic, of -dynamic state in the life -an observable behavior
with fragmenting human beings and ways human beings intrinsic worth and cycle, whereas illness found in the health care
the environment but with human interact with their capable of rational interferes with that systems in the society
transactions in different kinds of environment to maintain thinking and decision process -the goal of nursing is to
environments health is essential for making -continuous adjustment to help individuals maintain
- Middle-Range Theory of Goal nurses stress in the external and their health so they can
Attainment derived from the nature internal environment function in their roles
of nursing - way in which nurses in through the optimum use
their role, do with and for individuals of one;s resources to
that differentiates nursing from other achieve maximum
health professionals potential for daily living
-described the nurse-patient
interaction process lead to goal
attainment and determines whether
nurses made transactions

-describes the importance of the

nurse-patient relationship as a
significant, therapeutic interpersonal
process
- Stresses the reciprocal relationship -become patient who - providing care to
between patient and nurse and views require nursing care persons/patients who have
nursing as finding out and meeting when they have needs needs for help
the patients’ immediate need for help for help that cannot be
met independently
because they have
physical limitations

- It is based on a belief that people of -transcultural nursing is a

different cultures are capable of major area of nursing
guiding professionals to receive the focused on comparative
kind of care they desire or needs study and analysis of
from others diverse cultures and
subcultures in the world
 -its goal is to assist an
- emphasized caring stressed - holds spiritual values individual, family or
empathy, sympathy, rapport, and the that determine his community to prevent or
emotional aspects of nursing perception of illness cope with the experience of
illness and suffering and if
necessary, to find meaning
in these experiences, with
the ultimate goal being the
presence of hope
-is accomplished through
human-to-human
relationships

- cocreating reality as a seamless - viewed as universe - - an august presence, a - living the quality is the - discipline having a unique
symphony of becoming is the central irreducible and seamless symphony of becoming of the emerging knowledge base and a
thought foundational to the ontology inseparable with human becoming, living the as humans live their lives profession distinct from
of humanbecoming emerging now structuring meaning, medicine
- described as configuring rhythmical
humanuniverse, one with patterns, and - a science, the practice of
humanbecoming cotranscending with which is a performing arts
possibles - a unique service to
Humankind; a learned
discipline
- Consciousness is coextensive in the - the larger whole which - Clients as participants -Encompasses conditions -the primacy of relationships
universe and resides in all matter contains the in the transfomative heretofore described as as a focus of nursing, both
- Client and environment are viewed consciousness of the process; illness, or in medical nurse-client relationships
as a unitary evolving pattern individual terms, pathology. and relationships within
- Persons as individuals -the expansion of clients’ lives
-All matter in the universe- are identified by their consciousness
environment possesses consciousness individual patterns of - a process emphasizing
consciousness and knowing or caring through
defined as centers of pattern recognition
consciousness within an
overall pattern of
expanding consciousness
-includes family and
community

- describes homeostatis as the process - all the internal and -an open client system - continuum wellness to -Is concerned with the
by which an organism maintains external factors that in reciprocal interaction illness that is dynamic in whole person
equilibrium, and is consequently its surround and influence with the environment nature and is constantly
health, under varying conditions; the client system -my be an individual, changing -a unique profession
adjustment is the process by which an family, group, concerned with all of the
organism satisfies its needs community, or social variables affecting an
issue individual’s response to
- the patterns of the whole influence stress
awareness of the part - dynamic composite of
interrelationship among
physical, sociocultural,
developmental and
spiritual factors