How System Model Incorporates The Four Metapradigm Concepts
Patricia Cleaves
Grand Canyon University -NRS-430V
October 21, 2012

How System Model Incorporates the Four Metapradigm Concepts
For years, health care profession has increasingly moved toward specialization. Expansion of knowledge, especially in the technical fields, has caused compartmentalized and fragment care (S. & J., 1994) and an increase inability among health care provider to view the client as a whole and unique individual. The purpose of this paper is to explain how the Neuman System model (NSM) incorporates the four metaparadigm concepts.
Understanding the NSM
Understanding the model is the first step to incorporation of the NSM in any practice setting. There much flexibility in how this can take place, such as providing classes with expert lecturing on the model, sending staff to NSM symposiums holding a series of class in which lecture and discussion focus on various aspect of the NSM or taking the approach used by which team members used the model to develop treatment lived experience quickly and effectively brought the NSM from the level of theory to that of application and allow the team to experience the fit of the model to their institution and individual philosophies.(Neuman, 1989)
Interdisciplinary Health care (I HC)
The NSM
IHC is not new to the health care system; it has gained increasing favor in the environment of health care reform as evidenced by the governmental recommendations and guidelines and other professional organizations. The trend in nursing is to collaborate with other health care team as well as the clients. Use of the IHC teams can facilitate the emergence of holistic client care goals from teams of diverse health care specialists.
The NSM is broad and comprehensive enough to provide structure for nursing interventions but also for other