Assumptions
Basic beliefs about health environment and nursing are necessary to understand when using the Neuman model. These basic beliefs are called assumptions: They provide the “bottom line” when using a theoretical framework. There are ten basic assumptions in Betty Neuman system model. These are,
1. Even though each individual client or group as a client system is unique, each system is a combination of common known factors or inborn characteristics within a normal, given range of response contained within a fundamental structure.
2. May identified, unidentified, and universal environmental stressors exist. Each differs in its potential for disturbing a clients’ usual stability level, or normal line of defense. The particular interrelationships …show more content…
Each individual client/client systems has evolved a standard range of responses to the environment that is referred to as a normal line of defense, or standard wellness/stability state. The normal line of defense can be used as a standard from which to compute health deviation.
4. When the cushioning effect of the flexible line of defense is no longer able of defending the client/client system against the environmental stressor, the stressor breaks through the normal line of defense. The interrelationships of variables such as physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, developmental, and spiritual have to determine the character and degree of system reaction or potential reaction to the stressor.
5. The client, whether in a state of wellness or sickness, is a dynamic composite of the interrelationships of variables-physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, developmental, and spiritual. Wellness is on a continuum of existing energy to hold the systems in an optimal state of system solidity.
6. Inherent within each client system are internal resistance factors known as lines of resistance, which function to calm down and return the client to the standard wellness state (normal line of defense) or probably to a higher stage of stability following an environmental stressor
Basic beliefs about health environment and nursing are necessary to understand when using the Neuman model. These basic beliefs are called assumptions: They provide the “bottom line” when using a theoretical framework. There are ten basic assumptions in Betty Neuman system model. These are,
1. Even though each individual client or group as a client system is unique, each system is a combination of common known factors or inborn characteristics within a normal, given range of response contained within a fundamental structure.
2. May identified, unidentified, and universal environmental stressors exist. Each differs in its potential for disturbing a clients’ usual stability level, or normal line of defense. The particular interrelationships …show more content…
Each individual client/client systems has evolved a standard range of responses to the environment that is referred to as a normal line of defense, or standard wellness/stability state. The normal line of defense can be used as a standard from which to compute health deviation.
4. When the cushioning effect of the flexible line of defense is no longer able of defending the client/client system against the environmental stressor, the stressor breaks through the normal line of defense. The interrelationships of variables such as physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, developmental, and spiritual have to determine the character and degree of system reaction or potential reaction to the stressor.
5. The client, whether in a state of wellness or sickness, is a dynamic composite of the interrelationships of variables-physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, developmental, and spiritual. Wellness is on a continuum of existing energy to hold the systems in an optimal state of system solidity.
6. Inherent within each client system are internal resistance factors known as lines of resistance, which function to calm down and return the client to the standard wellness state (normal line of defense) or probably to a higher stage of stability following an environmental stressor