Betty Neuman Systems Model
Polina Kreyman
Miami Dade College

Betty Neuman Systems Model Throughout the years I have learned about many nursing theories, one that I particularly agree and with is the Betty Neuman System Model Theory. She believed that “Health is a condition in which all parts and subparts are in harmony with the whole of the client”. Betty Neuman divided the systems into four different parts, nursing, person, health and environment. In the first part, Neuman believed that nursing requires a holistic approach, an approach that considers all factors of the client’s health. For example, the clients physical, physiological, psychological, mental social cultural, developmental and spiritual well being. She believed that a nurse must be able to adjust to meet the individual and unique needs of every client. Furthermore, Neuman saw a person as an open system that works together with other parts of its body as it interacts with an environment. Neuman regarded the concept of a person as an individual, family, community or society. In the next approach she focuses on the health as a dynamic of a client. In other words, a persons health depends on upon which state of health continuum they are in line with, the person may be in line with the state of wellness or illness.
Disharmonious system reflects illness as a result of unmet needs of a person. The state of health varies according to the degree a person has to environmental forces. (“Betty Neuman’s Systems Model,” 2008). If a person successfully copes with the environmental influences and is able to maintain adequate level of health, the person can preserve the integrity of all parts of its system. Lastly, she mentions the environment which she states can be internal, external and created force that interacts with a person’s state of health. She also mentions