Question

Briefly identify Betty Nueman's theorist’s background, including credentials and practice experiences, title of model/theory, reason for development and how the model/theory is classified (level of theory development) by the nursing community.

Answer 1

BETTY NUEMAN

Betty neuman was born in rural Ohio in 1924. She graduated from anursing diploma a program at peoples hospital in Akron in1947.,she received her B.S in public health in 1957  and earned an M.S as a public health mental health nurse consultant in 1966.After all that she began developing her theory in as ateaching aid for an introductory course in said program and continued to develop it after multiple evaluations .

Neuman system theory seeks to identify positive and negative stressor sand determine how they can dissrupt the system . The theory uses variables that pertain to spiritual , developmental and psychological aspect sof the body system , among other variables to define how stressors affect the body system . Neuman's theorysees the persaon as an open system in conjuntion with environment . the environment is used to explain how external factors can bring about the stress . Health is considered a line of defense against stress and may be impacted by stress. NUrsing is used to intervenue between stressors and the body system through the nursing process .