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LEARNING TARGETS:
Upon completion of this lesson, you can:
▪ Acknowledge the background and credentials of these
nursing theorists;
▪ Identify the major concepts with their definitions as
utilized in their respective theory;
▪ List down their specific theoretical assertions or
assumptions;
▪ Highlight their major contributions in the nursing field;
▪ Enumerate the major assumptions enclosed within
their theory;
▪ Describe each of these theories in view of the four
metaparadigms;
▪ Apply the significance of these theories in the nursing Reference:
education, research, and practice; and, Alligood, M. (2018). Nursing theories and their
▪ Recognize the application of these theories in nursing work (9th ed.). Singapore: Elsevier.
today and in the clinical setting.
LESSON REVIEW/PREVIEW
Let us have a review of what you have learned from the previous lesson. Kindly answer the following questions on the
space provided. You may use the back page of this sheet, if necessary. Have fun!
Instruction: Enumerate and site examples of the following behavioral systems that you have studied from the previous
lesson.
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MAIN LESSON
You will study and read their book, if available, about this lesson.
Theoretical Assertions:
✔ Nurse and the patient can interact.
✔ Peplau emphasized that both the patient and nurse mature as the result of the therapeutic interaction.
✔ Communication and interviewing skills remain fundamental nursing tools.
✔ Peplau believed that nurses must clearly understand themselves to promote their client’s growth and avoid limiting
their choices to those that nurses value.
Theory Description:
✔ Ida Jean Orlando’s theory developed observations she recorded between a nurse and patient. Orlando’s nursing
theory stresses the reciprocal relationship between patient and nurse. What the nurse and the patient say and do
affects them both.
✔ According to Orlando (1961), persons become patients who require nursing care when they have needs for help
that cannot be met independently because they have physical limitations, have negative reactions to an
environment, or have an experience that prevents them from communicating their needs.
✔ Patients experience distress or feelings of helplessness as the result of unmet needs for help (Orlando, 1961).
✔ Orlando proposed a positive correlation between the length of time the patient experiences unmet needs and the
degree of distress. Therefore, immediacy is emphasized throughout her theory.
✔ In Orlando’s view, when individuals are able to meet their own needs, they do not feel distress and do not require
care from a professional nurse.
✔ Orlando emphasizes that it is crucial for nurses to share their perceptions, thoughts, and feelings so they can
determine whether their inferences are congruent with the patient’s need (Schmieding, 2006).
✔ Abraham (2011) used Orlando’s theory to help nurses achieve more successful patient outcomes such as fall
reduction. Orlando’s theory remains a most effective practice theory that is especially helpful to new nurses as
they begin their practice.
Nursing Process Theory: the nursing process is an interaction of three basic elements.
1. The behavior of the patient
2. The reaction of the nurse
3. The nursing actions which are designed for the patient’s benefit.
▪ The role of the nurse is to find out and meet the patient’s immediate need for help.
▪ Nursing process helps the nurse find out the nature of the distress and what helps the patient.
▪ The use of this theory keeps the nurse’s focus on the patient.
▪ The strength of the theory is that it is clear, concise and easy to use.
Theory Assumptions:
✔ When patients cannot cope with their needs on their own, they become distressed by feelings of helplessness.
✔ In its professional character, nursing adds to the distress of the patient.
✔ Patients are unique and individual in how they respond.
✔ Nursing offers mothering and nursing analogous to an adult who mothers and nurtures a child.
✔ The practice of nursing deals with people, the environment, and health.
✔ Patients need help communicating their needs; they are uncomfortable and ambivalent about their dependency
needs.
✔ People can be secretive or explicit about their needs, perceptions, thoughts, and feelings.
✔ The nurse-patient situation is dynamic; actions and reactions are influenced by both the nurse and the patient.
✔ People attach meanings to situations and actions that aren’t apparent to others.
✔ Patients enter into nursing care through medicine.
✔ The patient cannot state the nature and meaning of his or her distress without the nurse’s help or him or her first
having established a helpful relationship with the patient.
✔ Any observation shared and observed with the patient is immediately helpful in ascertaining and meeting his or
her need or finding out that he or she is not in need at that time.
✔ Nurses are concerned with the needs the patient is unable to meet on his or her own.
2. The nursing process is an interaction of three basic elements. The following are the three basic elements, except:
a. Patient’s behavior
b. Nursing analysis
c. Nursing action
d. Nurse’s reaction
ANSWER: ________
RATIO:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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4. There are 4 phases of nurse - patient relationship. Which of the following is not included?
a. Orientation
b. Identification
c. Recreation
d. Exploitation
ANSWER: ________
RATIO:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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5. There are six roles of a nurse stated by Peplau, one of which describes how the nurse helps clients clarify domains of
dependence, interdependence, and independence and acts on client’s behalf as advocate.
a. Stranger
b. Surrogate
c. Teaching
d. Resource
ANSWER: ________
RATIO:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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7. “Nursing is a profession that seeks to find out and meet the patient’s immediate need for help” is defined by?
a. Dorothy Johnson
b. Ida Jean Orlando Pelletier
c. Hildegard Peplau
d. Betty Neuman
ANSWER: ________
RATIO:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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8. The theory of Orlando emphasizes immediate nursing action to address the patient’s need. This can be mostly
applied in areas such as Operating Room, Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Area.
a. the first statement is correct; the second statement is incorrect
b. the first statement is correct, the second statement is correct
c. the first statement is incorrect; the second statement is incorrect
d. the first statement is incorrect, the second statement is correct
ANSWER: ________
RATIO:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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9. Includes the nurse communicating to the patient his or her own immediate reaction is defined as:
a. Need
b. Nursing process discipline
c. Immediate nurse’s reaction
d. Automatic nursing actions
ANSWER: ________
RATIO:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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10. Ida Jean Orlando’s theory developed observations she recorded between a nurse and patient. This statement is:
a. true
b. false
ANSWER: ________
RATIO:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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RATIONALIZATION ACTIVITY
The instructor will now provide you the rationalization to these questions. You can now ask questions and debate among
yourselves. Write the correct answer and correct/additional ratio in the space provided.
1. ANSWER: ________
RATIO:________________________________________________________________________________________
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2. ANSWER: ________
RATIO:________________________________________________________________________________________
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LESSON WRAP-UP
You will now mark (encircle) the session you have finished today in the tracker below. This is simply a visual to help you
track how much work you have accomplished and how much work there is left to do.
You are done with the session! Let’s track your progress.
This technique will help you engage by providing a question sheet that guides & stimulates the learning. You will answer
the questions per column, as fast as you can. It will be great to time yourself as you answer on the space provided.
FIND-OUT QUESTIONS:
1. The ________________ phase is characterized by the client who assumes a posture of dependence,
interdependence, or independence in relation to the nurse.
2. In the _____________ role of nurses, the nurse answers questions, interprets clinical treatment data, and
gives information.
3. ______________ is a situationally defined requirement of the patient which relieves or diminishes his
immediate distress if this is supplied.
3. What are the three basic elements of interaction of nurse and patient?
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CHALLENGE QUESTION:
1. What is the importance of having an effective relation and interaction to your patient?