Her view of HEALTH

Her view of HEALTH

by Group E's Pamela Onzo

Abdella represented health as a state mutually exclusive of illness in her patient-centered approaches to nursing. She did not provide a concrete definition of health in her theory, but rather mentioned "total health needs" and "a healthy state of mind and body" in her description of nursing as a comprehensive service (Current Nursing, 2011). Therefore, health, or achieving of it, is the end-goal of nursing services (Tomey and Alligood, 2008).

Reference List:

Current Nursing. (2011). Faye Glenn Abdellah's Theory -Twenty One Nursing Problems." (2011). In Nursing Theories - a companion to nursing theories and models. Retrieved from http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Abdellah.html

Tomey, A., & Alligood, M. (2008). Abdellah describes people as having physical, emotional, and sociological needs. Retrieved from http://nursingtheoriesmodelsphilosopies.blogspot.com/2013/07/sonormal-stylemso-margin-top-altautomso.html