A nurse is caring for a client who has just been transferred from the intensive care unit after having open heart surgery. The nurse wants to use a nursing model, focusing on the person as a total being, as opposed to a medical model, which focuses on the client's disease process. Which nursing model theorist should the nurse reference?
1. Orem
2. Rogers
3. Roy
4. Neuman
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Rationale 1: Concepts in the Orem model are self-care, self-care agency, self-care demand, self-care deficit, nursing agency, and nursing system.
Rationale 2: Rogers' model is unique in that the person is viewed as a unified whole. No parts or subsystems are separated out.
Rationale 3: Roy has pointed out that nursing focuses on the person as a total being, whereas medicine focuses on the patient's disease process.
Rationale 4: Neuman has proposed a model that focuses on the total person. The person or client system (individual, group, community) is subject to environmental stressors that are intrapersonal, interpersonal, and extrapersonal in nature.
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