Faye Glenn Abdellah’s Concept of Twenty One Nursing Problems
Faye Abdellah believed that nursing was broadly grouped into 21 problem areas to guide care and promote the use of nursing judgment. She also believed that nursing is a comprehensive service that is based on the art and science and aims to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.
21 Nursing Problems 1. To maintain good hygiene. 2. To promote optimal activity; exercise, rest and sleep. 3. To promote safety. 4. To maintain good body mechanics. 5. To facilitate the maintenance of a supply of oxygen. 6. To facilitate maintenance of nutrition. 7. To facilitate maintenance of elimination. 8. To facilitate the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance. 9. To recognize the physiologic response of the body to disease conditions. 10. To facilitate the maintenance of regulatory mechanisms and functions. 11. To facilitate the maintenance of sensory functions. 12. To identify and accept positive and negative expressions, feelings and reactions. 13. To identify and accept the interrelatedness of emotions and illness. 14. To facilitate the maintenance of effective verbal and non-verbal communication. 15. To promote the development of productive interpersonal relationship. 16. To facilitate progress toward achievement of personal spiritual goals. 17. To create and maintain a therapeutic environment. 18. To facilitate awareness of self as an individual with varying needs. 19. To accept the optimum possible goals. 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.
How Abdellah’s theory approaches patient care and specific examples
Her approach was better nursing care through nursing research and patient-centered