Abdellah's theory views nursing as a problem-solving approach focused on meeting individuals' total health needs. It identifies 21 nursing problems across physical, emotional, and social domains. Abdellah's theory characterized people as having needs in these areas and defined health as a state of wellness distinct from illness. The theory provides a framework for nurses to recognize problems, decide appropriate actions, and continuously care for patients.

2. ABDELLAH’S THEORY
M.SOWMIYA
MSC N I YEAR
GCON,CUDDALORE.

3. INTRODUCTION
FG Abdellah born on march 13,1919 in new York city was
one of the most influential nursing theorist and public health
scientists. It is extremely rare to find someone who has dedicated
all her life to the advancement of the nursing profession and
accomplish this feat with so much distinction and merit.

4. FG
Abdallah’s

5. General information about the theory
•The major component of Abdallah's typology is a list
of nursing problem, or healthcare needs of the client.
•She defined a nursing problem as any condition
presented or faced by a client or family for which a
nurse can offer assistance.

6. ABDELLAH’S THEORYAND MAJOR CONCEPT
Nursing person
Health Environment

7. NURSING
• Nursing is considered to be a comprehensive service.
• Recognizing the nursing problem of the patient.
• Deciding the appropriate course of action to take in terms of
relevant nursing Priniciple.
• Providing continuous care of the care of the individual total
health needs.
• Providing continuous care to relive pain and discomfort and
provide immediate security for the individual.

8. PERSON
• Abdallah's described people as having physical, emotional,
and sociological needs.
• Patient is describe as the only justification for the existence of
nursing.
• Individual are the recipients of nursing.
• Health or achieving of it’s the purpose of nursing service.

9. HEALTH
• In patient centered approaches to nursing, Abdallah's
described health as a state mutually exclusive of illness.
• Although Abdallah does not give a definition of health, she
speaks to “total health needs” and a healthy state of “mind
and body” in her description of nursing as a comprehensive
service.

10. SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
• Society is included in “planning for optimum health on local,
state, national and international levels”. However, as she
further delineated her ideas, the focus of nursing service was
clearly the individual.
• The environment is the home or community from which
patient comes.

11. Abdallah's work and characteristics of a theory
Characteristics 1
• Abdallah's theory has interrelated the concepts of the health,
nursing problems, and problem solving as she attempts to
create a different way of viewing nursing phenomenon.
• The results was the statement that nursing is the use of
problem solving approach with key nursing problem related to
healthy needs of people.

12. Characteristic 2:
Problem solving is an activity that is inherently logical in
nature.
Characteristic 3:
Framework seems to focus quite heavily on nursing practice
and individual. This somewhat limits the ability to generalize
although the problem solving approach is readily generalizable
to clients with specific health needs and specific nursing
problem.

13. • Characteristics 4
one of the most important question that arise when considering her work is
the role of client within the framework. This question could generate
hypothesis for testing .
Characteristics 5
The result of testing such hypothesis would contribute to the general body
of nursing knowledge.
Characteristic 6
Abdallah's problem solving approach can easily be used by practitioners to
guide various activities within their practice.

14. Conti…
• Characteristic 7
Although consistency with other theories exist, many question
remain unanswered.

15. Abdellah’s Typology of Nursing Problems
Physical, sociological, and emotional needs of
the patient .
Then interpersonal relationships between the
nurse and the patient.
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16. Abdellah’s Typology of Nursing Problems
• 1.To promote good hygiene and physical comfort
• 2. To promote optimal activity, exercise, rest, and sleep
• 3. To promote safety through prevention of accidents, injury, or other
trauma and through the prevention of the spread of infection
• 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

17. Conti.....
• 8. To facilitate the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance.
• 9. To recognize the physiologic responses of the body to disease conditions.
• 10. To facilitate the maintenance of regulatory mechanisms and functions
• 11. To facilitate the maintenance of sensory function
• 12. To identify and accept positive and negative expressions, feelings, and
reactions
• 13. To identify and accept the interrelatedness of emotions and organic illness
• 14. To facilitate the maintenance of effective verbal and nonverbal
communication.

18. Conti…
• 15. To promote the development of productive interpersonal relationships
• 16. To facilitate progress toward achievement of personal spiritual goals
• 17. To create and maintain a therapeutic environment Purpose To guide
care and promote use of nursing judgment
• 18. To facilitate awareness of self as an individual with varying physical,
emotional, and developmental needs.
• 19.To accept the optimum possible goals in light of physical and emotional
limitations. use community resources as an aid in resolving problems arising
from illness understand the role of social problems as influencing factors in
the cause of illness.

19. Conti…
• 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.