Ernestine wiedenbach

1. Ernestine
Wiedenbach
Prepared by: Emmanuel Habilag, RN, MANc

2. - was born on August 18, 1900 in Hamburg,
Germany.
-Conceptual Framework: “ The Helping Art of
Clinical Nursing”
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3. rnestine Wiedenbach
Education:
- B.A. from Wellesley College in 1922.
-R.N. from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1925.
-M.A. from Teacher’s College, Columbia University in
1934.
- Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from the Maternity
Center Association School for Nurse-Midwives in New
York in 1946.

4. Wiedenbach conceptualizes nursing as the practice
identification of a patient’s need for help through
observation of presenting behaviors and symptoms,
exploration of the meaning of those symptoms with the
patient, determining the cause(s) of discomfort, and
determining the patient’s ability to resolve the discomfort
or if the patient has a need for help from the nurse or
other healthcare professionals.
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5. If the need for help requires intervention, the
nurse facilitates the medical plan of care and also
creates and implements a nursing plan of care
based on needs and desires of the patient.
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6. Four elements to Clinical Nursing:
1.Philosophy
2.Purpose
3.Practice
4.Art

7. 3 essential components associated with a
nursing philosophy:
o Reverence for life
o Respect for the dignity, worth, autonomy
and individuality of each human being
o Resolution to act on personally and
professionally held beliefs

8. Nurses’ PURPOSE is that which the nurse
wants to accomplish through what she does.
It is all of the activities directed towards the
overall good of the patient.

9. Practices are those observable nursing
actions that are affected by beliefs and
feelings about meeting the patient’s
need for help.

10. The ART of nursing includes understanding
patient’s needs and concerns, developing
goals and actions intended to enhance
patient’s ability and directing the activities
related to the medical plan to improve the
patient’s condition.

11. Person: Any individual who is receiving
help from a member of the health profession
or from a worker in the field of health.
Environment: Not specifically addressed
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12. HEALTH: Concepts of nursing, client, and need for
help and their relationships imply health-related
concerns in the nurse— client relationship.
NURSING: the nurse is a functional human being
who acts, thinks, and feels. All actions, thoughts, and
feelings underlie what the nurse does.
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