Lydia Hall developed a nursing theory that conceptualized nursing care into three overlapping circles: care, core, and cure. The care circle focuses on nurturing and comforting patients. The core circle emphasizes meeting patients' social, emotional, and intellectual needs to help them understand themselves and solve problems. The cure circle involves applying medical knowledge and cooperating with doctors and families on patients' medical, surgical, and rehabilitative needs. Hall believed all three aspects interact and change based on patients' individual, health, environmental, and nursing needs, with the overall emphasis being on caring for the whole person. The theory focused heavily on the care and core roles of nurses with limited discussion of other nursing roles.

2. Theoretical
Framework of
Nursing
Jaypee T. Sidon, R.N.

3. THEORY
A theory refers to a coherent group of general
prepositions used as principles of explanation
Or
A set of statements or principles devised to explain
a group of facts or phenomena, especially one
that has been repeatedly tested or is widely
accepted and can be used to make predictions
about natural phenomena.

4. NURSINGTHEORY
 NURSING theory is the set of
concepts,definitions,relationships
 and assumptions or prepositions
 derived from nursing models or
 other disiplines and project a
purposive,systematic view of
 phenomena by designing specific
interrelationship among
concepts
 for the purpose of
describing,explaining,predicting
 or prescribing.

5. Lydia E.
Hall
(1906 - 1969)

6. History
Lydia Hall began her
prestigious career in nursing as a
graduate of the York Hospital School of
Nursing in York, Pennsylvania.
She earned B.S. and M.A.
degrees from Teachers College,
Columbia University, in New York.
Had faculty position at the York
Hospital School of Nursing and
Fordham Hospital School of Nursing
Became consultant in Nursing Education to the
Nursing Faculty at the State University of New York, Upstate
Medical Center. She also was an instructor of nursing
education at Teachers College.
Born in New York City on
September 21, 1906.

7. Career Interests: Public
Health Nursing,
cardiovascular nursing,
pediatric cardiology
and nursing of long
term illness.
Authored 21
publications and the
bulk of the articles and
addresses regarding
her nursing theory
were published in in
the early to middle
1960s. .
she received
the award for
Distinguished
Achievement
in Nursing
Practice from
Columbia
University.
In the 1967

8. Greatest Achievements:
Hall design and develop Loeb
Center for Nursing at Montefiore
Hospital in New York City and
apply her theory to nursing
practice. Opened at January 1963.
A 80 bed capacity for persons
aged 16 years or older who were
no longer having acute biological
disturbances. Patients were
recommended by their physicians
and had favourable potential for
recovery and subsequent return to
their community. Hall served as
administrative director of the Loeb
Center for Nursing for from its
opening until her death in February
1969.

9. PRESENTATIONOF THEORY
THE CARE
THE CORE
THE CURE

10. CareCircle
THE CARE

11. Care
Nurturing component of care
It is exclusive to nursing
“Mothering”
Provides teaching and learning activities
Nurses goal is to “comfort” the patient
Patient may explore and share feelings with
nurse

12.  Nurse is concerned with intimate bodily care
 Nurse applies knowledge of natuaral and
biological sciences
 Nurse act as potential comforter

13.  INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
 EXPLORATION OF FEELINGS

14. CORECIRCLE
THE CORE

15. Core
Patient care is based on social sciences
Therapeutic use of self
Helps patient learn their role is in the healing
process
Patient is able to maintain who they are
Patient able to develop a maturity level when
nurse listens to them and acts as sounding
board
Patient able to make informed decisions

16.  Emphasis on social,emotional,spiritual and
intellectual needs
 Patient makes more rapid progress towards
recovery and rehabilitation
 INTERPERSONAL PROCESS
UNDERSTANDING THEMSELVES
PROBLEM FOCUSSING AND
PROBLEM SOLVING

17. CURECIRCLE
THE CURE

18. Cure
Care based on pathological and therapeutic
sciences
Application of medical knowledge by nurses
Nurse assisting the doctor in performing tasks
Nurse is patient advocate in this area
Nurse is a patient advocate
Nurses role changes from positive quality to
negative quality
Medical surgical and rehabilitative care
COPERATE WITH FAMILIES OR CARE GIVERS

19. InteractionAllThreeAspects
THE CORE
THE CARE
THE CURE

20. Emphasis placed on the importance of total
person
Importance placed on all three aspects
functioning together
All three aspects interact and change in size

21. HALLSTHEORYANDNURSINGPARADIGMS
 INDIVIDUAL
 HEALTH
 ENVIRONMENT
 NURSING

22. Limitations:
Hall’s theory of nursing has a
limited generality.
The function of the nurse in
preventive health care and
health maintenance is not
addressed nor is the nurses’
role in the community health,
even though the model could be
adapted.

23. Hall viewed the role of
nurses as heavily involved
in the care and core aspects
of patient care.
The only communication
technique Hall described in
her theory as means to
assist patient to self
awareness was reflection.

24. SUMMARY
THEORY
NURSING THEORY
LYDIAHALLSTHEORY
CARE
CORE
CURE
PARADIGMS
LIMITATIONS

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