Health of the individual, family and community

Title: Health of the individual, family and community
Creator: Conway, Jane; Dempsey, Jennifer
Relation: Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery: A Person-Centred Approach to Care p. 38-55
Relation: http://www.lww.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product__11851_-1_9012052_Prod-9781920994051
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2009
Description: This chapter discusses how basic human needs are met and highlights the need for nurses and midwives who work in person-centred ways, to have an appreciation of how the individual, the family and the community environment operate as a dynamic system. The concept of systems theory as a way of thinking about factors that impact upon health and illness needs of individuals and communities, is introduced. An overview of Neuman's Systems Model (1989) as a way of thinking about the interrelationships among these is presented. Neuman's Systems Model is an example of a nursing theory that describes stressors and enablers of health that can be related to basic human needs. Neuman's model is very person-centred as it has a very strong emphasis on viewing the individual as a complete person.
Subject: basic human needs; family; physiological needs; person-centred care; safety and security needs; self-actualisation needs; self-esteem needs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918133
Identifier: uon:8519
Identifier: ISBN:9781920994051
Language: eng

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