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Dorothy Johnson
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Overview

August 21, 1919: Born in Savannah, Georgia Received A.A. from Armstrong Junior College in Savannah, Georgia Received BSN from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee Received MPH (Master of Public Health) from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts

1938: 1942: 1948:

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Overview Continued
1944-1949:

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing at Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing, an Associate Professor of Nursing, and a Professor of Nursing at UCLA 1979: Professor Emeritus at 1999: Passed away in UCLA

1949-1978:

January

February
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Contributions to Nursing
Research-based

knowledge

Nursing

is a science and an art

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What is Nursing
An

external regulatory force which acts to preserve the organization and integration of the patients behavior at an optimal level under those conditions in which the behavior constitutes a threat to physical or social health, or in which illness is found

Johnson

believed that nursing was 5/8/12 concerned with man as an

Goals of Nursing

Nurses should assist the patient to become a person:

demands

1. Whose behavior is proportionate with social 2. Who is able to modify his behavior in ways

that relate to biological imperatives

3. Who is able to benefit to the fullest extent

during illness from the physicians knowledge and skill

4. Whose behavior does not give evidence of
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trauma as a consequence of

 and Clients

this is the specific knowledge of order we require are stressed by a stimulus, either internal or external stimuli create tensions within the patient that results in disequilibrium care should (1) reduce stimuli that are stressors and (2) provide support of the clients natural defenses and adaptive processes

1968: Behavior System Model

Stressful Nursing

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Why A Behavior System Model?

each individual has patterned, purposeful, repetitive ways of acting that comprise a behavioral system specific to the individual.
Orderly Believes

and Predictable

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Subsystems
q Attachment or Affiliative: formation and

attachment of a strong social bond; provides security and survival recognition and physical assistance

q Dependency: approval, attention, or q Ingestive: meaning and structures of social

events surrounding the occasion when food is eaten

q Eliminative: human cultures have different

socially acceptable behaviors for excretion of waste

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q Sexual: biological and social factors influence

Assumptions Regarding Subsystems

Each

subsystem is composed of four structural characteristics:

Drives or Goal Set or Predisposition to Act Choices Observable Outcome or the

Individuals Behavior

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is organization, interaction, interdependency and integration of the parts and elements of behaviors that go to make up the system

Assumptions Regarding the Model

system tends to achieve balance among the various forces operating within and upon it; man continually strives to maintain a behavioral system balance and steady state by more or less automatic adjustments and adaptations to the natural forces occurring on him 5/8/12

Subsystems Continued
Each

Subsystem has three functional requirements:

influences with which system cannot cope (Protection) the input of appropriate supplies from the environment (Nurturance)

1. System must be protected from noxious

2. Each subsystem must be nurtured through

3. Each subsystem must be stimulated for use

to enhance growth and prevent stagnation (Stimulation)

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Application of the Theory

Interventions Assessment
Stimulation Insufficiency Discrepancy Protection Incompatibility Regulation Dominance Control

Diagnosis Nurturance

Evaluation
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References
Dorothy

E. Johnson. (2011). Retrieved

from http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/sc_dig lib/ biopages/djohnson.html

George,

J.B (Ed.). (2011). Nursing theories: The base for professional nursing practice (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Johnson

Behavioral System Model. (2002). Retrieved from http://nursing.clayton.edu/ eichelberger/ theory/johnson_behavioral_system.htm 5/8/12