COMPOSURE MODEL

CARMELITA DIVINAGRACIA

BIOGRAPHY

° Filipino Nurse Theorist

° Association of the Deans Philippine Colleges of Nursing (ADPCN) Former President
° Dean of University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Inc.
(UERMMMC) College of Nursing
° Member of CHED Technical committee on Nursing Education
° Has been lauded for developing the art and competency of teaching nursing.
° Has been a clinic nurse, staff nurse, head nurse, instructor, assistant dean and dean
° Expert in Research and Education
° Has lectured and written about her work as a nurse and has use her hands-onexperience to
develop better ways to teach nursing.
° Her love for nursing and her dedication to carve out learning tools for nursing studentshas been
a commendable and rare field of discipline.

Education
° Bachelor’s degree in Nursing at the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial
Medical Center in 1962
° Master’s degree in Nursing at the University of the Philippines in 1975
° Doctorate’s degree in Nursing at the University of the Philippines i
n 2001

Award
° Recipient of the Anastacia Giron Tupas Award given by the Philippine NursingAssociation
(PNA) in 2008.

COMPOSURE BEHAVIOURS
°COMpetence
● An in depth knowledge and clinical expertise demonstrated in caring for patients.
● This is also stands for consistency and congruency of words and deeds of the nurse.
°Presence and Prayer
● A form of nursing measure which means being with another person during times of need.
● It is also a form of nursing measure which is demonstrated through reciting a prayer with
the patient and concretized through the nurse's personal relationship and faith in God.
°Open-mindedness
 ● A form of nursing measure which means being receptive to new ideas or to reason.
°Stimulation
● Appreciation of what patient can do is reinforced through positive encouraging remarks
and this is done with kind and approving behavioral approach.
°Understanding
● According to her, it conveys interest and acceptance not only of patient's condition but
also his entire being.
°Respect
● Use of preffered naming in addressing the patient, po and opo, is a sign of positive
regard.
°Emphaty
● Senses accurately other person's inner experience.