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to create and/or maintain a therapeutic

environment
Health 18. to facilitate awareness of self as an individual
 Dynamic pattern of functioning with varying physical, emotional, and
 Emphasis: prevention and rehabilitation developmental needs
 Goal: wellness 19. to accept the optimum possible goals in the light
 Patient health needs of limitations, physical and emotional
20. to use community resources as an aid in
Nursing problems resolving problems arising from illness
 Patient health needs= nursing problems 21. to understand the role of social problems as
influencing factors in the cause of illness
 A condition faced by the patient or patient’s family
that the nurse, through the performance of
Metaparadigm
professional functions, can assist them to meet
 Covert/overt
 Individual/human
 More consistent with nursing functions or nursing
 recipients of nursing
goals than that with patient-centered problems
 areas of importance: biological,
Problem Solving psychological, and social
 Means of identifying and solving overt and covert Health
problems  the purpose of nursing services
 “total health needs” and “a
21 Nursing Problems healthy state of mind and body”
 Society/environment
Classified into:  “planning for optimum health on local,
1. Physical, sociological, and emotional needs of state, national, and international levels”
the patient  Focus of nursing service is the individual,
2. types of interpersonal relationships between the not the society
nurse and the patient  Nursing
3. common elements of patient care
Comprehensive service that is based on an art and
science
Abdellah’s 21 Nursing Problems
Aim: to help people, sock or well, cope with their health
needs
1. to maintain good hygiene and physical comfort
2. to promote optimal activity; exercise, rest, and
Classification of Needs
sleep
3. to promote safety through the prevention of
1. Basic to all patients
accident; injury, or other trauma and through the
2. Sustenal care needs
prevention of the spread of infection
3. Remedial care needs
4. to maintain good body mechanics and prevent
4. Restorative care needs
and correct deformities
5. to facilitate the maintenance of a supply of
Application of Abdellah’s Theory: Nursing Process
oxygen to all body cells
6. to facilitate the maintenance of nutrition of all
1. Assessment
body cells
2. Diagnosis
7. to facilitate the maintenance of elimination
3. Planning
8. to facilitate the maintenance of fluid and
4. Implementation
electrolyte imbalance
5. Evaluation
9. to recognize the physiological responses of the
body to disease conditions-pathological,
physiological, and compensatory
10. to facilitate the maintenance of fluid and
electrolyte imbalance
11. to facilitate the maintenance of sensory functions
12. to identify and accept positive and negative
expressions, feelings, and reactions
13. to identify and accept the interrelatedness of
emotions and organic illness
14. to facilitate the maintenance of effective verbal
and nonverbal communication
15. to promote the development of productive
interpersonal relationships
16. to facilitate progress towards achievement of
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personal spiritual goals