- Nursing Theories
- Nursing
Five Interrelated Essential Elements
- Patiency- The person receiving care
- Goal of nursing- Adapting to change
- Health-Being and becoming a whole person
- Environment
- Direction of nursing activities- Facilitating adaptation
- The person is an open adaptive system with input (stimuli), who adapts by processes or control mechanisms (throughput)
- The output can be either adaptive responses or ineffective responses