About nursing theories

1. LYDIA HALL
C O R E , C A R E & C U R E M O D E L
P R E S E N T E D B Y : M S K A N W A L Q A I S E R

24. CONCEPTS
• Behavior: Refers to everything that is said or done. It is
dictated by feelings both conscious and unconscious.
• Reflection: Refers to a method of communication in which
selected verbalizations for the patient are repeated back to
him using different phraseology, to invite him to explore his
feelings further.
• Self awareness: refers to state of being that nurses attempt to
help their patient’s achieve. The more self awareness a person
has about his or her feelings, the more control he has over his
behavior.

25. CONCEPTS CONTD..
• Phases of medical care: Two phases are:
a. Biologically critical: Patients receive intensive medical care and
multiple diagnostics.
b. Non acute, recovery phase of illness: This stage is conducive to
learning and rehabilitation. This is the time for wholly
professional nursing care.
• Wholly Professional Nursing: It implies nursing care given
exclusively by registered nurses in behavioral sciences who take
responsibility and opportunity to co-ordinate and deliver the roles
of nurturing, teaching and advocacy in the fostering of healing.

29. CONCLUSION
 Hall used her knowledge of psychiatry and nursing experiences in
the Loeb Center as a framework for formulating the Care, Core and
Cure Theory. Her model contains three independent but
interconnected circles. The three circles are: the core, the care, and
the cure.
 The core is the patient, the cure refers to the medical and nursing
interventions and the care is the nurturing provided by nurses.
Nursing functions in all three of the circles but shares them to
different degrees with other disciplines.
 Even though Hall confined her concepts for patients with the age of
16 years and above, the concepts of care, core and cure can still be
applied to every age group but again, none was specified.

30.  This theory puts emphasis on the importance of the total
patient rather than looking at one part or aspect.
 There is also emphasis put on all three aspects of the theory,
the three Cs, functioning together.
 And for a nurse to successfully apply Hall’s theory, the individual
must pass an acute stage of illness.
 In this theory, no nursing contact with healthy individuals,
families, or communities, contradicts the concept of health
maintenance and disease prevention.

31. REFERENCES
Alligood, M., & Tomey, A. (2010). Nursing theorists and their work, seventh
edition (No ed.). Maryland Heights: Mosby-Elsevier.
Hall, L. (1965) Another view of nursing care and quality. Address given at Catholic
University Workshop, Washington, D.C. In George, J. (Ed.). Nursing theories: the
base for professional nursing practice. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton & Lange.
George, J.B.; Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing Practice; 2000.