Assumptions, Concepts, and Relationships

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Her ASSUMPTIONS

by Group E's Joyce Lynn Opinga

Abdellah firmly believed in proper identification of patient’s needs. As such, she upheld that nurses should be fully equipped by formal education and proper training to effectively identify and address the patient's need. Furthermore, the renowned theorist also gave emphasis on continuous nursing education by keeping themselves abreast in the ever-changing health care delivery system. 

All these led her to the following assumptions (Wayne, 2014):

1. Relate to change and anticipated changes that affect nursing;
2. The need to appreciate the interconnectedness of social enterprises and social problems;
3. The impact of problems such as poverty, racism, pollution, education, and so forth on health and health care delivery;
4. Changing/updating nursing education;
5. Continuing education for professional nurses; and
6. Development of nursing leaders from underserved groups.

More importantly, her belief in patient-centered approach led her to formulate her widely-used 10 steps in identifying the patient’s problems, which are as follows:

1. Learn to know the patient.
2. Sort out relevant and significant data.
3. Make generalizations about available data in relation to similar nursing problems presented by other patients.
4. Identify the therapeutic plan.
5. Test generalizations with the patient and make additional generalizations.
6. Validate the patient’s conclusions about his nursing problems.
7. Continue to observe and evaluate the patient over a period of time to identify any attitudes and clues affecting his or her behavior.
8. Explore the patient and his or her family’s reactions to the therapeutic plan and involve them in the plan.
9. Identify how the nurses feel about the patient’s nursing problems.
10. Discuss and develop a comprehensive nursing care (Petiprin, 2016; Gil, 2014).

Her PROPOSITIONS 
by Group E's Yoradyl Marsha Ocampo 

Several theoretical assertions were repeatedly stated by Faye Abdellah although they were not labeled as such. These assertions are as follows:

1. Nursing problem and nursing treatment typologies are the principles of nursing practice and constitute the unique body of knowledge that is nursing.

2. Nursing diagnoses determine the nature and extent of nursing problems presented by individuals receiving nursing care. Correct identification of the nursing problem influences the nurse's judgment in selecting steps in solving the patient's problem.

3. Nursing is patient-centered rather than disease-centered (Nursing Theories, 2009; McEwen and Wills, 2014; Jones &Bartlett Learning, LL, n.d.).



Reference List:

Petiprin, A. (2016). Faye Abdellah - nursing theorist. Retrieved from http://nursing-theory.org/nursing-theorists/Faye-Abdellah.php

Wayne, Gil (29 September 2014). Faye Abdellah - 21 Nursing Problems Theory - Nurseslabs [Weblog]. Retrieved 23 August 2017, from https://nurseslabs.com/faye-g-abdellahs-21-nursi

Jones & Bartlett Learning, LL. (n.d.). Health promotion theories. Retrieved from http://samples.jbpub.com/9781284094749/Chapter_3.pdf

McEwen, M., & Wills, E. M. (2014). Theoretical basis for nursing (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Nursing Theories (2009, July 18). Changing The World... One Step At A Time (Faye G. Abdellah) (Weblog post). Retrieved from http://nursingtheories.blogspot.ae/2009/07/changing-world-one-step-at-time-faye-g.html

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