Her theory's strengths and weaknesses
by Group E's Ma. Loisa Anne Stead & Maria Luisa Medina
Strengths
Abdellah’s theory in general, provides a foundation for establishing and organizing nursing care. It basically connected the concepts of health, nursing problems, and problem solving.
Nurses’ roles were determined to alleviate the problems analyzed through its problem-solving approach which can be easily utilized and applied by medical practitioners as a guide on various activities within their scope of practice. It is readily generalizable to client with specific health problems and needs. Moreover, her problem-solving approach has the desirable feature of increasing nurses’ thinking and analytical skills by the provision of care based on quality assessment and validation of findings.
In addition, the language used in Abdellah’s framework is plain and understandable. An essential question about her work, is the client’s role within the framework. This question can create hypothesis for testing, thus exemplifying the ability of Abdellah’s theory to produce hypothesis for testing.
Weaknesses
Nursing care is not limited to individuals, perhaps, community health care sought higher importance nowadays, than hospital curing. However, Abdellah’s framework seems to focus quite heavily on individuals and nursing practice rather than what requires to be achieved in terms of care, this somehow limits the ability to generalize.
The nature of the 21 nursing problems indicates the inconsistency of its framework with the concept of holism. This may result to a client being diagnosed as having multiple problems that would lead to unsystematic and unsubstantial care effort, problems might be overlooked because the client is not supposed to be in a particular level of illness. Moreover, the framework has failed to provide a perspective on humans and society in general.
References List:
Abdellah, F. G., Beland, I. L., Martin, A., & Matheney, R. V. (1960). Patient centered approaches to nursing. In George, J. (Ed.). Nursing theories: the base for professional nursing practice. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton & Lange.
Abdellah, F. G., Beland, I. L., Martin, A., & Matheney, R. V. (1973). New directions in patient-centered nursing. In McEwen, M. and Wills, E. (Ed.). Theoretical basis for nursing. USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Abdellah, F. G. and Levine, E. (1986). Better patient care through nursing research (3rd ed.). In George, J. (Ed.). Nursing theories: the base for professional nursing practice. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton & Lange.
Strengths
Abdellah’s theory in general, provides a foundation for establishing and organizing nursing care. It basically connected the concepts of health, nursing problems, and problem solving.
Nurses’ roles were determined to alleviate the problems analyzed through its problem-solving approach which can be easily utilized and applied by medical practitioners as a guide on various activities within their scope of practice. It is readily generalizable to client with specific health problems and needs. Moreover, her problem-solving approach has the desirable feature of increasing nurses’ thinking and analytical skills by the provision of care based on quality assessment and validation of findings.
In addition, the language used in Abdellah’s framework is plain and understandable. An essential question about her work, is the client’s role within the framework. This question can create hypothesis for testing, thus exemplifying the ability of Abdellah’s theory to produce hypothesis for testing.
Weaknesses
Nursing care is not limited to individuals, perhaps, community health care sought higher importance nowadays, than hospital curing. However, Abdellah’s framework seems to focus quite heavily on individuals and nursing practice rather than what requires to be achieved in terms of care, this somehow limits the ability to generalize.
The nature of the 21 nursing problems indicates the inconsistency of its framework with the concept of holism. This may result to a client being diagnosed as having multiple problems that would lead to unsystematic and unsubstantial care effort, problems might be overlooked because the client is not supposed to be in a particular level of illness. Moreover, the framework has failed to provide a perspective on humans and society in general.
References List:
Abdellah, F. G., Beland, I. L., Martin, A., & Matheney, R. V. (1960). Patient centered approaches to nursing. In George, J. (Ed.). Nursing theories: the base for professional nursing practice. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton & Lange.
Abdellah, F. G., Beland, I. L., Martin, A., & Matheney, R. V. (1973). New directions in patient-centered nursing. In McEwen, M. and Wills, E. (Ed.). Theoretical basis for nursing. USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Abdellah, F. G. and Levine, E. (1986). Better patient care through nursing research (3rd ed.). In George, J. (Ed.). Nursing theories: the base for professional nursing practice. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton & Lange.
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