Lydia E.

Hall
Care, Core, Cure Model of
Nursing
Presented by Tanisha Pryor
 Identification of Lydia E. Hall

• Born in New York City September 21, 1906

• Graduated from York Hospital School of Nursing in Pennsylvania
• Bachelor of Science & Master of Arts from Teacher’s College,
Columbia University
• Died February 27, 1969 of heart disease in Queens Hospital of New York
 Hall’s Background

• She spent her early years as a registered nurse working for Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company where the main focus was on preventive health.
• Worked for New York Heart Association as a staff nurse.
• Advocate of community involvement in public health issues.
• Professor at Teacher’s College at Columbia University.
• Research analyst in the field of cardiovascular disease (Alligood &
Tomey 2010).
 Interest & Research Focus

• Research in the field of rehabilitation of chronically ill patient’s brought her

to develop the Care, Cure, Core Theory.
• Interested in rehabilitative nursing and the role that the professional nurse
played and the patient’s recovery and welfare (Alligood & Tomey 2010).
• She became the founder and first director of the Loeb Center for
Nursing and Rehabilitation at the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx,
New York
 The Care Circle

• Explains the role of nurses and focused on performing that noble task of the nurturing
patients.
• Component of this model is the “motherly care” provided by the nurses (George, J.B 2000).
• Which may include:
• Comfort measures
• Patient instructions
• Helping patients meet their needs where help is needed.
Major purpose of care is to achieve an interpersonal relationship with the individual that will facilitate the
development of the core ( Texas Woman’s University).
 The Core Circle

• The person or patient to whom nursing care is directed and needed.

• Core involves the therapeutic use of self, and empathizes the use
of reflections (Texas Woman’s University).
• The core has goals set by himself and not by any other person.
• Behaves according to his or hers feelings and values (George, J. B 200).
 The Cure Circle
• Focus on nursing related to the physician’s orders.
• Attention given to patients by medical professionals.
• Shared by the nurse with other health professionals, such as physicians or
physical therapist.
• Interventions or actions geared toward treating the patient for
whatever illness or disease he or she is suffering from (George, J.B 200).
 How do nurses relate?
• Hall proposed many ideas of professional practice, such as the nursing process.
• Improvement of nurses to meet the needs of the patient with better professional
nursing care.
• Management of nursing care.
• Establishment of nurse patient relationship.
• Collaboration with other health professionals.
• Deliverance of care to ill patients.
 Limitations to care

• Individuals must pass an acute stage of illness for you to successfully

apply her theory.
• Therefor theory relates to only those who are ill.
• No nursing contact with healthy individuals, families or communities and it
negates the concept of health maintenance and prevention (Gonzalo
2011).
• Lacks application to pediatric care.
 Conclusion

• Hall believed patients should only receive care from professional nurses.
• Hall defined her philosophy on the basis of the patient.
• Hall believed that patients come to the hospital in biological crisis (acute episode
of a disease) and that medicine does a great job at treating this crisis, but fails to
treat the chronic underlying disease. This is where she felt nursing could make a
significant difference.
• Hall felt that taking over this sub-acute phase was the way for nursing to
legitimize itself into a true profession.
 References

• Alligood, M., & Tomey, A. (2010). Nursing theorists and their work,
seventh edition (No ed.). Maryland Heights: Mosby-Elsevier.
• George, J.B.; Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing
Practice; 2000.
• Gonzalo, (2011). Theoretical foundations of nursing.
nursingtheories.weebly.com/lydia-e-hall.html
• Texas Woman’s University. Nursing Theorist.