Practice

Abdellah's Typology of Twenty-One Nursing Problems helps nurses and nursing students perform in a
scientific and systematic way. Using this scientific foundation will empower the nurse to give meaning to
each and every nursing action that he/she will perform Using the Twenty-One Nursing Problems
technique, the clinical practitioner could assess the patient, make a nursing diagnosis and plan
interventions. With the Problem-solving process the nurse and nursing student will now attempt to
make the welfare of the client as the essential goal or objective rather than his or her medical condition.
Using the typology in the clinical setting, nurses will now give their work an empirical basis.

Education

Abdella's Typology of Twenty-One Nursing Problems had the most potent effect on the educational
system. Educators came to the realization that revisions are of prime importance if nurses were to
become self-governing. They saw that the biggest flaw in the profession was the absence of limited base
of a scientific body of knowledge unique to nursing. The typology satisfied this void and gave the most
crucial and timely opportunity to move away from the medical replica of cultivating nurses..

Research

The Typology of Twenty-One Nursing Problems was produced through research therefore, it is expected
that more research followed after Its introduction to the academic world. Intensive research, like the
Function Studles (a type of research) scrutinized the quantity of time the nurse spent with the ollent.
The typology utilized by Abdellah and Strachan became the root for cultivating the nursing care model
and was then employed for setting up the staffing outline in clinical settings. The staffing patterns were
found on the client's identified needs and, as Abdellah foresaw, they comprise of: (1) Intensive care, (2)
Intermediate care, (3) Long-term care (4) Self-care, and (6) Home-care units.

Arranging clients by similar needs than by diagnoses, the nursing service could give the optimum staffing
patterns to acknowledge client's needs. Abdellah and Levine released in 1965 the first major text book in
nursing research entitled Better Patient Care through Nursing Research.