Grand Nursing Theories Based on Human Needs

Needs theorists generally come from the positivist school of thought philosophically, and therefore, the theories fit well with medical theories of care.

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• False

The needs theories of nursing work well with the current emphasis on evidence-based practice because of the bias toward experimental science.

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• False

The first nursing theorists mainly focused on the human needs of their patients/clients.

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• False

She is respected as the mother of modern professional nursing. She brought nursing out of the servant position it held in the 19th century and into the respected professional status it holds currently.

• Florence Nightingale

• Virginia Henderson

• Faye Abdellah

• Dorothea Orem

She is often seen as the mother of American professional nursing. She was a prolific author and researcher. Her concept of nursing is still used in clinical and community health care.

• Florence Nightingale

• Virginia Henderson

• Faye Abdellah

• Dorothea Orem

She provided nurses with one of the first academic nursing theories. She was a prolific author and researcher. She categorized nursing problems based on the individual’s needs and developed a typology of nursing treatment and nursing skills.

• Florence Nightingale

• Virginia Henderson

• Faye Abdellah

• Dorothea Orem

She provided one of the first theories that gave the patient/client the responsibility for self-care. Her ideas allowed patients to resume more normal lives with respect to their self-care agency.

• Florence Nightingale

• Virginia Henderson

• Faye Abdellah

• Dorothea Orem

She was a teacher of nursing at all levels. Her theoretical work inspired many other nurses to become theoretical thinkers.

• Dorothea Orem

• Dorothy Johnson

• Betty Neuman

• Faye Abdellah

She gave nurses the systems model with its lines of defense against stress. She believed that the causes of stress can be identified and remedied through nursing interventions. She developed the concept of prevention as intervention.

• Dorothea Orem

• Dorothy Johnson

• Betty Neuman

• Faye Abdellah

The needs theorists’ works are still in daily use in education, in clinical nursing, and in clinical nursing research.

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• False