FAYE GLENN ABDELLAH

“21 NURSING PROBLEMS

THEORY”
FAYE GLENN ABDELLAH

Presented by:
Verzola, Angelique
, Richelle G.
Nursing is based on art and
science that moulds the
attitudes, intellectual
competencies, and technical
skills of the individual nurse
into the desire and ability to
help people , sick or well, cope
with their health needs.Z
 All about the theorist:

 She is the first nurse and the first

women tomserve as Deputy Surgeon
General.
 She was one of the most influential
nursing theorist and public health
scientist in our era.
 All about the theorist:
 March 13,1919, in New York city

1942- He earned a nursing diploma from Fitkin

memorial hospital’s school of nursing New
Jersey( now Ann May school of nursing

1945-received her bachelor of science degree

 1947- Degree of Master of Arts.

 1955-Doctor of education in Teacher’s

College, Columbia University

 1989- she retired

THEORIST AS AN EDUCATOR and RESEARCHER

 She headed a research team

MANCHESTER CONNECTICUT

 CORONARY CARE UNIT

 first teaching job was at YALE

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURCHING
THEORIST AS AN EDUCATOR and RESEARCHER

 PATIENT ASSESSMENT OF CARE

EVALUATION(PACE)- a system of
standard used to measure the relative
quality of individual health-care.
 classification system for patient care
and patient oriented reecords.
 Responsible for establishing nursing-
home standards in the US.
THEORIST GENERAL INFORMATION:
 Her major component in her typology
is a list of nursing problems, or health
care needs of the client.
 She defines a nursing problem as any
condition presented or faced by a
client or family for which a nurse can
offer assistance.
THEORIST GENERAL INFORMATION:
 The problem can be overt or covert.
 She described 21 nursing problems
subsumed under one of the three
categories. physical social, and emotional
needs of a client; interpersonal
relationship between nurse and client;
and common elements of client care.
 She also describes a means of solving a
clients problem.
ABDELLAH’S TYPOLOGY
OF 21 NURSING
PROBLEMS
21 NURSING PROBLEMS:
 To maintain good hygiene and physical
comfort.
 To promote optimal activity: exercise,
rest and sleep.
 To promote safety through prevention
of accident, injury or other trauma
and trough the prevention of spread
infection.
 To maintain good body mechanics and
prevent and correct deformity.
 to facilitate the maintenance of a supply of
oxygen to all body cells.
 To facilitate the nutrition of all body cells.
 To facilitate the maintenance of
elimination.
 To facilitate the fluid and electrolyte
balance.
 To recognize the physiological response of
the body to disease condition-pathological,
physiological and compensatory.
 To
facilitate the maintenance of regulatory
mechanism and functions.
 Tofacilitate the maintenance of sensory
function.
 Toidentify and accept positive and
negative expressions, feelings, and
reactions.
 To
identify and accept interrelatedness of
emotions and organic illness.
 Tofacilitate the maintenance of effective
verbal and non-verbal communication.
 Topromote thee development of productive
interpersonal relationship.
 To
facilitate progress toward achievement of
personal spiritual goals.
 To
create and or to maintain a therapeutic
environment.
 Tofacilitate awareness of self as individual
as varying physical, emotional, and
development needs.
 Toaccept the optimum possible goals in the
light of limitations, physical and emotional.
 Touse community resources as an aid
resolving problems arising from illness.

 Tounderstand the role of social

problems as influencing factors in the
cause of illness.
the three categories:

1. physical social, and emotional needs of

a client.
2. interpersonal relationship between
nurse and client.
3. common elements of client care.
Fourconcept of the
nursing paradigm
MAN OR PERSON:
 She described people as having
physical, emotional and sociological
needs.
 She described that patient is the only
justification for the existence of
nursing. The ind.(families) are the
recipient of nursing and health, or
achieving of it .
 The purpose of nursing service.
ENVIRONMENT or SOCIETY

 She implicity defined environment as

the home or communnity from which
the patients comes.
 society is includedin “planning for
optimum health on local, state,
national and international levels.”
HEALTH:

 She dercribes health as mutually exclusive

of illness. Emphasize should be placed upon
prevention and rehabilitation with wellness
as a lifetime goal.
 The nurse must accurately identify the lacs
or deficits regarding health that the client
is experiencing. These lack or deficits are
the client health needs.
NURSING:
 Is a helping profession.
 Comprehensive service that combines art
and science.
 Provides information that helps meets the
clients needs.
 Uses the nursing process, a problem-solving
approach.
 Can use the 21 nursing problem as a guide
to nursing care.
THANK YOU and GOD
BLESS GEORGIA!!