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Essay on Nurse Theorist
Betty Neuman’s model of nursing focuses on the person as a complete system, the subparts of which are interrelated physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, spiritual, and developmental factors. The Neuman Systems Model provides a comprehensive, system based conceptual framework. Originally designed to be used in nursing it can be used by other health professions. The purpose of the model is to provide a unifying focus for approaching a wide range of nursing concerns and for understanding basic nursing phenomena: the client, the environment, health and nursing.
The model represents the client within the system perspective, holistically and multi-dimensionally. It illustrates the components of five interacting client variables; physiological, psychological, developmental, socio-cultural and spiritual in relation to environmental influences upon the client as a system consisting of basic structure, lines of resistance and lines of defense. The environment is broadly defines all internal and external factors or influences surrounding the identified client or client system. Environment consists of three dimensions: internal environment, external environment and created environment.
The health of the client is envisioned as being at various levels within a normal range, rising or falling throughout the life span related to adjustment by the client system to environmental stressors. The major concern of nursing is keeping the client system stable throughout constant life changes with accuracy both in assessing the effects of environmental stressors and in assisting client adjustments required for optimal level wellness through primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies as intervention.......
