Betty M. Neuman outline for presentation

1. Betty M. Neuman, Nursing Theorist
Presentation Outline
 Childhood
• Early Life
• Interest development
 Education
 Work experience
 Publication of theory

2.  Rationale for selection
• Her goal to separate nursing from the medical
model
• Holistic perspective
• Her basic assumptions
oUnique
oStressors

3. oInterrelationships
oLine of defense
oBroken line
oActive components
oInternal LOD
 Levels of prevention
• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary

4. • Works with nursing process
 Overview of theory
• Development
• Basic Assumptions
• Client system
• Stressors
• Client variables

5. • Client system responses
• Stressor break
• Inter-relationships of variables
• Internal residence factors
• Client system

6.  Concepts
• Interaction with environment
 Basic structure
• Client survival factors
• Basic structure
• Stability
• Body system

7.  Degree to reaction
• System instability
 Entropy
 Process of energy depletion
 Flexible LOD
• Protective mechanism
 Normal LOD
• Usual state of wellness

8.  Line of resistance
• Circles surrounding basic structure
 Contributions to nursing/health care
 Model for teaching total person approach to
patient problems
 Neuman Systems Model; Its importance for
Nursing
 Health as a continuum based on the Neuman
Systems Model