Presentation Objectives
After the presentation, you will: 1. Gain knowledge of Newman’s biography and understand her meaning perspective of nursing concepts 2. Identify Neuman’s Systems Model’s structure 3. Explain the lines of defense and resistance surrounding the basic core structure of human being 4. Identify the three nursing preventions as interventions used within the Systems Model 5. Identify and analyze paradigm represents
Dr. Betty Neuman Biography
∗Inviting Dr. Neuman to Our Class
∗ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE4w3S68zTc
Dr. Betty Neuman Biography
• Born in 1924 and grown up on a farm near Lowell, Ohio. • Gained important values of simplicity, humility, and self-reliance (Neuman, 2011)
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Motivation to Be a Nurse
∗ From her father who died at age 37, but he always praised his nurses who took good care of him in the hospital. ∗ From her mother who was a self-taught rural midwife and often shared stories and charity experiences with her. (Neuman, 2011)
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Meaning Perspectives
•Person •Environment •Health •Nursing
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Education
• Earned a diploma in 1947 from Peoples Hospital School of Nursing, Akron, Ohio • Earned a bachelor’s in nursing, public health and psychology from UCLA in 1957 • Earned a master’s in mental health and public health consultation from UCLA in 1966. • Earned a PHD in clinical psychology from Pacific Western University, San Francisco, California, in 1985 (Neuman, 2011)
University of California, Los Angeles
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Nursing Experiences
• Practiced as staff, private duty, head, school, and industrial nurse and served as professor at UCLA. • Lives in Ohio and maintains an active private practice as a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist.
(Neuman, 2011)
Dr. Betty Neuman Biography Con’t Career Beside Nursing
∗ A licensed real estate agent ∗
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