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Nursing Process Theory: Ida Jean Orlando (Pelletier)

Chapter 16

Overview of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory

Stresses reciprocal relationship between patient and nurse; what the nurse and patient say and do during their interaction affects both of them

Imperative that nurses share their perceptions with patients to determine if their perception is congruent with the patient’s perception of need

Focuses on producing improvement in the patient’s behavior

Major Concepts of Nursing According to Orlando

Person: defines person in terms of patient or person with unmet needs

Environment: assumes that a nursing situation occurs when there is a nurse-patient contact

Health: assumes feelings of adequacy and well-being from fulfilled needs contribute to health

Nursing: profession functions autonomously; function to meet patient’s need for help

Assumptions of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory About Nursing

Nursing is a distinct profession, separate from other disciplines

Professional nursing has a distinct function and product (outcome)

There is a difference between lay and professional nursing

Nursing is aligned with medicine

Assumptions of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory About Patients

Each patient’s needs for help are unique

Patients have an initial ability to communicate their needs for help

When patients cannot meet their own needs they become distressed

The patient’s behavior is meaningful

Patients are able and willing to communicate verbally

Assumptions of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory About Nurses

Nurse’s reaction to each patient is unique

Nurses should not add to the patient’s distress

Nurse’s mind is the major tool for helping patients

Nurse’s use of automatic responses prevents the responsibility of nursing from being fulfilled

Nurse’s practice is improved through self-reflection

Assumptions of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory About Nurse-Patient Situation

The nurse–patient situation is a dynamic whole

The phenomenon of the nurse–patient encounter represents a major source of nursing knowledge

Propositions of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory

There is a relationship between the patient’s presenting behavior and the presence of patient distress

There is a relationship between nurse’s use of Orlando’s distinct nursing function and the nurse’s ability to recognize the need for inquiry (deliberative nursing process) into the meaning of the patient’s presenting behavior

Propositions of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory

The more competent the nurse is in labeling his or her perceptions, thoughts, and feelings, the more apt the nurse is to find out the nature of the patient’s distress

If the nurse explores his or her immediate reaction with the patient, the patient’s distress is lessened

Propositions of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory

The nurse’s use of the deliberative nursing process will be less costly than the nurse’s use of automatic personal responses

Patients’ experiencing repeated improvement as result of deliberative nursing will have positive cumulative effects

Brief Critique of Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory

Developed inductively

Logical and applicable to nursing practice

Considered simple because it includes few concepts and relationships

Internally consistent and meets the criteria for testability for a middle-range theory

Effective practice theory that is especially helpful to new nurses as they begin practice

Orlando’s Theory as Framework for Nursing Practice: Five Interrelated Concepts

The organizing principle or professional nursing function

The problematic situation or the patient’s presenting behavior

The internal response or immediate reaction

Reflective inquiry or deliberative nursing process

Resolution or improvement

Orlando’s Theory as Framework for Nursing Practice

Assessment: nurse helps person express specific meaning of behaviors in effort to determine source of distress; next, the nurse should explore the distress to assess the help required. The process used to share and validate the nurse’s direct and indirect observations is known as the deliberative nursing process.

Planning: participation from nurse and patient

Orlando’s Theory as Framework for Nursing Practice

Implementation:

Direct help occurs when the patient is unable to meet need and the activity is confined to the nurse–patient

Indirect help occurs when activity to meet patient’s need extends to arranging services

Evaluation: focus not on nurse’s activity; rather, if nurse’s action helped patient communicate need for health and if need was met