Ernestine Weidenbach
The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing: Ernestine Weidenbach
Ernestine Weidenbach
Background
- Ernestine Wiedenbach
was born in August 18, 1900, in Hamburg, Germany.
- Wiedenbach's
conceptual model of nursing is called ' The Helping Art of Clinical
Nursing".
- Wiedenbach joined the
Yale faculty in 1952 as an instructor in maternity nursing.
- Assistant professor of
obstetric nursing in 1954 and an associate professor in 1956.
- She wrote
Family-Centered Maternity Nursing in 1958.
- She was influenced by
Ida Orlando in her works on the framework.
Key Concepts
Wiedenbach believed that
there were 4 main elements to clinical nursing.
They include:
- a philosophy
- a purpose
- a practice
- and the art.
- A nurses' philosophy
was her/his attitude and belief about life and how that effected reality for
them. Philosophy is what motivates the nurse to act in a certain way.
- Care will not be
possible without a proper identification of existing problem of the patient by
the NURSE.
3 essential components
associated with a nursing philosophy:
1. Reverence for life
2. Respect for the
dignity, worth, autonomy and individuality of each human being
3. And resolution to act
on personally and professionally held beliefs.
- Practice is observable
nursing actions that are affected by beliefs and feelings about meeting the
patient’s need for help. These actions are goal directed and patient centered.
- Art of nursing entails
understanding the needs and concerns of patients and developing goals and
actions to enhance their ability and guiding activities related to the medical
plan, to facilitate improvement of patient’s condition. It also involves
the nurse to focus on prevention of complications (reoccurrence of same or new
concerns)
Major Concepts
1. Person
- Each person (whether
nurse or patient), is endowed with a unique potential to develop
self-sustaining resources.
- People generally tend
towards independence and fulfillment of responsibilities
- Self-Awareness and
self- acceptance are essential to persona integrity and self-worth
- Whatever an individual
does at any given moment represents the best available judgment for that person
at time.
2. Nursing
- A helping art with
knowledge and theories. A goal-directed and deliberate blending of thoughts,
feelings, perceptions and actions to understand the patient and his condition,
situation and needs, to enhance his capability, improve his care, prevent
recurrence of problem and real with anxiety, disability or distress
3. Health
- Not defined. However,
she supports the World Health Organization’s definition of health as a state of
complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease and infirmity.
4. Environment
- Conglomerate of
objects, policies, setting, atmosphere, time, human beings, happenings past,
current or anticipated that are dynamic, unpredictable, exhilarating, baffling
and disruptive.
References
Nursing Theories
(Online) Available at http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Ernestine_Wiedenbach.html Accessed:
September 12, 2016
Copy of Ernestine
Weidenbach – The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing by. Jo anne 25 August 2013
(Online) Available at https://prezi.com/b3f0rqrkk2p1/copy-of-ernestine-wiedenbach-the-helping-art-of-clinical-nursing Accessed:
September 12, 2016
Nursing Theory Website,
Clayton University (Online) Available at
http://www.clayton.edu/nursing/Nursing-Theory/wiedenbach Accessed:
September 12, 2016
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