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    Faye Glenn Abdellah was a pioneering nurse who served as the first nurse and first woman to be Deputy Surgeon General of the United States. She developed a patient-centered nursing theory that focused on 21 nursing problems across physical, emotional, social, and environmental domains. These 21 problems included maintaining hygiene, safety, nutrition, and effective communication. Abdellah viewed the patient holistically and sought to address their total health needs through nursing care.

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    Faye Glenn Abdellah was a pioneering nurse who served as the first nurse and first woman to be Deputy Surgeon General of the United States. She developed a patient-centered nursing theory that focused on 21 nursing problems across physical, emotional, social, and environmental domains. These 21 problems included maintaining hygiene, safety, nutrition, and effective communication. Abdellah viewed the patient holistically and sought to address their total health needs through nursing care.

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    Faye Glenn Abdellah was a pioneering nurse who served as the first nurse and first woman to be Deputy Surgeon General of the United States. She developed a patient-centered nursing theory that focused on 21 nursing problems across physical, emotional, social, and environmental domains. These 21 problems included maintaining hygiene, safety, nutrition, and effective communication. Abdellah viewed the patient holistically and sought to address their total health needs through nursing care.

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    Faye Glenn Abdellah 21 Nursing Problems

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    FAYE GLENN ABDELLAH

    21 Nursing Problems
    Faye Glenn Abdellah
     She was born on March 13, 1919 in New York
    City.
     Finished her basic nursing education, magna
    cum laude in 1942 from Fitkin Memorial
    Hospital School of Nursing now Ann May School
    of Nursing in Neptune, New Jersey.
     Finished her Master of Arts in 1947 and her
    Doctor of Education in 1955 from the Teachers
    College at Columbia University.
     She became the first nurse and first woman to
    serve as Deputy Surgeon General of the United
    States.
     She changed the focus of nursing
    theory from a disease-centered to
    a patient-centered approach and
    moved nursing practice beyond
    the patient to include care of
    families and the elderly.
    Metaparadigm in
    Nursing
     Person
    She classifies as the beneficiary of care as
    individuals.

     Health
    It is the center and purpose of nursing
    services. She does not give a definition of
    health, she speaks to a “total health needs”
    and a healthy state of mind and body.
    Environment
     The idea of environment is addressed by
    Abdellah and is included in “planning for
    optimum health on local, state, national,
    and international levels”. However, as
    Abdellah elaborates her ideas, the apex is
    nursing service is the individual.
    Nursing
     The concept of nursing in this theory
    is generally grouped into twenty-one
    nursing problem areas for nurses to
    work out their judgment and
    appropriate care.
    Nursing Problems
     Overt- which is obvious or can be
    seen condition
     Covert- which is an unseen or
    masked one
    21 Nursing Problems
    1. To maintain good hygiene and physical
    comfort
    2. To promote optimal activity; exercise,
    rest and sleep
    3. To promote safety through the prevention
    of accident injury or other trauma and
    through the prevention of the spread of
    infection
    21 Nursing Problems
    4. To maintain good body mechanics and prevent
    and correct deformities
    5. To facilitate the maintenance of a supply of
    oxygen to all body cells.
    6. To facilitate the maintenance of nutrition of all
    body cells
    7. To facilitate the maintenance of elimination
    8. To facilitate the maintenance of fluid and
    electrolyte balance
    21 Nursing Problems
    9. To recognize the physiological responses of
    the body to disease condition- pathological,
    physiological and compensatory.
    10. To facilitate the maintenance of the
    regulatory mechanism and functions.
    11. To facilitate the maintenance of sensory
    function
    12. To identify and accept positive and
    negative expressions, feeling and reactions.
    21 Nursing Problems
    13. To identify and accept the interrelatedness
    of emotions and organic illness
    14. To facilitate the maintenance of effective
    verbal and non-verbal communications
    15. To promote the development of productive
    interpersonal relationships
    16. To facilitate progress toward achievement
    and personal spiritual goals.
    21 Nursing Problems
    17. To create or maintain a therapeutic
    environment.
    18. To facilitate awareness of self as an
    individual with varying physical, emotional
    and developmental needs.
    19. To accept the optimum possible goals in
    the light of limitations, physical and
    emotional.
    21 Nursing Problems
    20. To use community resources as an aid in
    resolving problems arising from illness
    21. To understand the role of social
    problems as influencing factors in the
    cause of illness.
    References:
     Balita, Carl and Eufemia Octaviano. Theoretical
    Foundations of Nursing: the Philippine
    Perspective. Ultimate Learning Series. 1998
     George, Julia B. Nursing Theories: the base for
    professional Nursing Practice (Fifth Edition)
     Pfettscher, Susan A. Florence Nightingale
    Modern Nursing.
     Udan, Miriam Q. Fundamentals of Nursing

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