To make the theory more simple, here are some tables to compare the major nursing theories and concepts. Organizing everything into tables definitely helped with passing the class and incorporating it into nursing care a lot easier!
Definition of Nursing
- Nightingale: Process of putting pt. in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
- Peplau: Therapeutic Interpersonal process.
- Orlando: Meeting needs through relationships.
- Roy: Promote adaptation.
- Orem: Assisting pts. to meet self-care needs.
- King: Process of action, reaction, and interaction maintain health & role function.
- Rogers: Learned profession –both science & art.
- American Nurse Assoc. (ANA): Dx and Tx of human response to actual and potential health problems. Caring for the human health experience.
| Theory | Goal of Nursing |
|---|---|
| King | To help individual, families, groups, and communities attain, maintain and restore health so they can function in their respective roles |
| Orem | To compensate for or overcome known or emerging health associated limitations for self care |
| Newman | Recognize patterns |
| Roy | Promote adaptation in the four adaptive modes, thus contributing to health, quality of life, and dying with dignity. |
| Theory | Definitions of Health |
|---|---|
| King | dynamic life experiences of a human being, which implies continuous adjustment to stressors in the environment through optimum use of one’s resources to achieve maximum potential for daily living – to function in social roles |
| Newman | The totality of the life process to be experienced – health and illness are unitary process -health is expanding consciousness |
| Orem | State of the person that is characterized by soundness of wholeness of developed human structures and of bodily and mental functioning |
| Roy | State and process of being and becoming integrated and whole that reflects person and environment mutuality |
