Biography

Name: Lydia Eloise Williams – Hall

Born: September 21, 1906 New York, United States

Died: February 27, 1969 at Queens Hospital in New York

Mother: Anna Ketterman Williams

Father: Louis V. Williams

Spouse: Reginald A. Hall

Education

 Graduated from York Hospital School of Nursing (1927)

– With a diploma in nursing
 Teacher’s College at Columbia University in New York
– Earned a BS degree in public health nursing (1932)
 Received a master’s degree in the teaching of natural life sciences from Columbia
University (1942)
 Pursued doctorate

Career

 Registered nurse
– Working for the Life Extension Institute of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in
Pennsylvania and New York
 New York Heart Association (1935 - 1940)
 Became staff nurse with the Visiting Nurses Association of New York (1941 - 1947)
 Advocate of Community involvement in public health issues
 Professor at Teacher’s College at Columbia (1950)
 Research analyst (field of Cardiovascular disease)
 Loeb Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation (1969)
– First director
 Authored 21 publications and bulk of articles
– include several articles on the definition of nursing and quality of care.

CARE, CURE, CORE THEORY

Care – Natural and biological sciences intimate bodily care aspects of nursing.

Cure – Pathological and therapeutic sciences seeing the patient and the family through the
medical care-aspects of nursing.

Core – social sciences therapeutic use of self-aspect of nursing.

Major Concepts of The Three Cs Theory

Individual – Hall emphasizes the individual’s importance as unique, capable of growth and
learning, and requiring a total person approach.

Health – Inferred as a state of self-awareness with a conscious selection of optimal behaviors for
that individual.

Society and Environment – The concept of society or environment is dealt with concerning the
individual. Hall is credited with developing Loeb Center’s concept because she assumed that the
hospital environment during treatment of acute illness creates a difficult psychological
experience for the ill individual.

Nursing – identified as participating in the care, core, and cure aspects of patient care.

Subconcepts – Lydia Hall’s theory has three components which are represented by three
independent but interconnected circles. The three circles are the core, the care, and the cure.
The size of each circle constantly varies and depends on the state of the patient.