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Summary
Faye
Abdellah, RN, Ed.D., Sc.D., FAAN, was the founding dean of the Graduate School
of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. She was the
first Deputy surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. (Parascandola,
1994).
She developed a list of 21 unique nursing problems related to human needs
in the 1960s. Her early writings contributed to the idea that nurses
use a problem-solving approach to practice rather than merely following
physician orders, complementing the 1965 statement from the American
Nurses Association recommending baccalaureate education as entry into
nursing practice.
Abdellah's 21 problems are actually a model describing the
"arenas" or concerns of nursing, rather than a theory describing
relationships among phenomena. In this way,
distinguished the practice of nursing, with a focus on the 21
nursing problems, from the practice of medicine, with a focus on disease and
cure.
References:
Parascandola,
J. (1994). In Leadership in Public Health, Women in the Public
Health Service. Retrieved December 31, 2002.
Summary
by Becky Sisk, PhD, RN
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Bibliography
Abdellah, F.G. (1965). Better Patient Care Through Nursing Research. New
York: Macmillan.
Abdellah, F.G., Beland,
I.L., Martin,
A., & Matheney, R.V. (1960). Patient-centered approaches to nursing.
New York: Macmillan.
Abdellah, F.G., Beland, I.L., Martin,
A., & Matheney, R.V. (1973). New directions in patient-centered
nursing. New York: Macmillan.
Abdellah, F.G., & Levine, E. (1986). Better
Patient Care Through Nursing Research (3rdd Ed).
New York: Macmillan.
Abdellah, F.G., Levine, E., & Koop, C.E.
(1994). Preparing Nursing Research for the
21st Century: Evolution, Methodologies, Challenges. New York: Springer
Publishing Co.
Meltzer, L.E., Abdellah, F.G., & Kitchell,
J.R. (1976). Concepts and Practices of Intensive Care for Nurse Specialists.
Philadelphia: Charles Press.
Available
from Amazon.com:
Abdellah
& Levine, Better Patient Care Through Nursing Research (3rd. Ed.)
, 1986
Abdellah
et al., Preparing Nursing Research for the 21st Century: Evolution, Methodologies, Challenges
, 1994
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