Nursing
Nursing is a helping profession. In Abdellah’s model, nursing care is doing something to or for the person or providing information to the person with the goals of meeting needs, increasing or restoring self-help ability, or alleviating impairment.
Nursing is broadly grouped into the 21 problem areas to guide care and promote use of nursing judgment.
She considers nursing to be comprehensive service that is based on art and science and aims to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.
Person
Abdellah describes people as having physical, emotional, and sociological needs. These needs may overt, consisting of largely physical needs, or covert, such as emotional and social needs.
Patient is described as the only justification for the existence of nursing.
Individuals (and families) are the recipients of nursing
Health, or achieving of it, is the purpose of nursing services.
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