Myra

Levine
The Conservation model
Myra Levine

– Born: 1920
– From: Chicago, Illinois
– Worked as:
• Private duty nurse
• Civilian nurse
• Surgical Nursing Supervisor
• Taught Nursing at many different institutions
The Conservation Model

– Focused:
– Adaptation
– Conservation
– Maintaining wholeness
Major concepts
(metaparadigms)

Environmen
Person
t

Health Nursing
A holistic being

“Wholeness is Integrity”
Completes wholeness of an individual
– Internal
– Physiological and Pathophysiological aspects
– Homeostasis
– Pattern of adaptation
– External
– Perceptual
– Sense organ
– Operational
– Conceptual
– Psychological patterns, beliefs, emotions, rationality
Wholeness and successful
adaptation
“The goal of the nurse is to promote health”
Engaging in human
interactions
Key Concepts

Conservation of
Conservation of energy structural integrity
Conservation
Conservation of Conservation of social
personal integrity integrity
Importance:

– Education
– Nursing
– Research