Theory Application: Betty Neuman’s Model

Abstract

Theories are not discovered in nature but are human invention. The new generation of nursing students expect an education that provides experiential learning and engaged learning that is related to real world context. Nurses can be guided by nursing theory in a full range of nursing situations. Nursing theory provides direction for new ways of being present with clients, helps nurses, realizes ways of expressing caring, and provides approaches to understanding needs for nursing and designing care to address these needs. The Neuman systems model is being used in diverse practice settings. The Newman systems model provides a comprehensive, flexible, holistic and systems-based perspective for nursing. This conceptual model of nursing focuses attention on the response of the client system to actual or potential environmental stressor, and the use of primary, secondary, and tertiary nursing prevention intervention for retention, attainment, and maintenance of optimal client system wellness.


Keywords: fracture, Neuman system model, stressor