THEORETICAL
BATOL 01
FOUNDATION IN NURSING
TOPIC 7: LYDIA HALL’S CORE, CARE, CURE MODEL
LYDIA HALL
“Nursing is a distinct body of knowledge that provides
nursing care to patients who are in need of nursing care
in support of medical interventions, in collaboration with • She maintained that nurses functioned in all three
other members of the health team, or exclusively and
independently by the nurse herself”
CORE, CARE, CURE MODEL
CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS
• Core refers to the person or the recipient of care and
includes the use of therapeutic self to relate with the
patient.
• Cure refers to medical interventions that are performed
on the patient. The foundation for this concepts stems
from pathological and therapeutic sciences that include
microbiology, parasitology, pharmacology, and pathology.
It includes nursing activities that are dependent upon the health team, or exclusively and independently by the
orders of the physician.
• Care is the exclusive domain of nursing.
• It is a philosophy of nursing that proposed nursing
functions differ in so far as aspects of patient care is
concerned.
•She postulated that individuals could be conceptualized
in three separate domains: care (hand on bodily care),
core (using the self in relationship to the
patient), and cure (applying medical knowledge).
LUMPAS
NRCMO100 TERM
•
Hall believed that patients should receive care only from
professional nurses. Nursing involves interacting with a
patient in a complex process of teaching and learning.
Hall was not pleased with the concept of team nursing.
domains but in different degrees.
• For example, the nurse’s function in the cure domain is
limited to helping patients or families deal with the
measures instituted by the physician.
• She left that the care domain was exclusive to nursing.
The core domain was shared with social workers,
psychologists, clergy, and other professions.
• Nurses also share the same domains or circles with
other health care
providers.
• Hall believed that professional nursing hastened the
recovery of
patients and that more professional nursing care and
health teaching
was needed in the light of decreasing medical care
rendered to the
patient.
• Lydia Hall emphasizes the autonomy inherent in
professional nursing.
• Her model encompasses adult patients who have
passed the acute stage of disease and who are now in
the rehabilitation phase of healthcare.
• The goal is to make sure that the patient achieves
success in selfactualization and self-love after the disease.
THEORY ASSERTIONS
• Nursing is viewed as a distinct body of knowledge that
provides nursing care to patients who are in need of
nursing care.
• Care of patients can be performed in support of medical
interventions, in collaboration with other members of the
nurse herself.
• Nursing is described as interacting with a patient in a
complex process of teaching and learning.
• The patient, or person, in this case is the recipient of
care which may come from three different domains.
• One aspect of care addresses his social needs while
another takes care of his medical concern.
• The third domain takes care of his bodily needs through
direct effective nursing care.
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 APPLICATION OF THE THEORY
• laid the foundation for classifying the professional
nurse’s functions toda
• Nurses are able to carry out nursing interventions
independently, dependently, or interdependently.
• The core aspect of the theory maintains that it is our
responsibility to make sure that the patient receives the
highest level of care possible from all concerned health
professions. The role of the nurse is in the collaboration,
coordination, and cooperation with other members of the
health care team on matters that pertain to the patient’s
welfare.
LUMPAS
• The cure aspect of the theory clearly delineates nursing
functions that are dependent on the members of the
medical profession. Example of these includes medication
administration, performance of diagnostic procedures,and
some other interventions that need a written order from
the doctor.
• The care domain of the theory refers to the independent
roles and functions of the nurse insofar as her skills about
the patient’s conditions will allow her to carry on with her
nursing responsibilities.
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