Her view of the PERSON

Her view of the PERSON
by Group E's Donna Marie Ortiz

Abdellah described the PATIENT or the PERSON as the only justification for the existence of nursing. Furthermore, she emphasized the PERSON as having physical, emotional, and sociological needs. These needs may be overt, consisting of largely physical needs, or covert, such as emotional and social needs. These needs make the patient the ultimate recipient of nursing care. While health, or achieving of it, is the purpose of nursing services. As such, the person is helped by the identification and alleviation of the problems he or she is experiencing. 

The model implies that, by resolving each problem, the person returns to a healthy state or a state in which he or she can cope; therefore the ideal of holism is absent in this model (Tomey and Alligood, 2008).

Reference List:

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