THE CORBIN AND STRAUSS NURSING MODEL AS A FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
This research examines the Corbin and Strauss Nursing Model for appropriateness as a framework for health education programs for elderly persons. A description and explanation of the Corbin and Strauss Nursing Model is followed by a discussion of the appropriateness of using the model as a framework for health education programs for the chronically ill elderly.
The Corbin and Strauss Nursing Model: Description and Explanation
The Corbin and Strauss Nursing Model is based on the four central concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing identified by Jacqueline Fawcett (Robinson, Bevil, Arcangelo, Reifsnyder, Rothman, and Smeltzer, 1993, p. 255). The four central concepts of this metaparadigm are person, environment, health, and nursing (Fawcett, 1989, p. 216). Person refers to the individual receiving care the patient. The person is a human being; a unity that can be viewed as functioning biologically, symbolically, and socially. Environment is envisioned within the contexts of (1) environmental factors and elements, which are considered to be external to the individual, (2) environmental conditions, which are the set of environmental factors and elements that exist at a given time, and (3) the developmental environment. The nurse, as a provider of care, creates a developmental environment which, for the individual receiving care, promotes personal development in relation to becoming able to meet present or future demands for action. The developmental environment, thus, consists of environmental conditions that motivate the person being helped to establish appropriate goals and adjust behavior to achieve results specified by the goals. It is the total environment, not any single part of it, that makes it developmental.
Health is defined in the metaparadigm as a state of the person that is characterized by soundness or wholeness of develo...