Nancy Roper
Nancy Roper (born September 29, 1918 in Wetheral , Cumberland , England , † October 5, 2004 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) was a British nursing scientist . Together with Winifred W. Logan and Alison Tierney , she was one of the creators of a model of caring for life activities (LA) developed at the University of Edinburgh .
Care model of life activities
The starting point and the theoretical approach to care by Roper, Logan and Tierney (also known as the RLT care model , after the first letters of the author's name) is an action-oriented life model. Every person performs these actions every day and throughout their life and can be assigned to twelve areas of activity - life activities. The twelve life activities are:
- Provide a safe environment
- Communicate
- To breathe
- to eat and drink
- Retirement
- Keeping yourself clean and dressing
- Regulate body temperature
- Move
- Work and play
- Feeling and behaving as a man, woman
- Sleep
- To die
On the other hand, the theorists around Roper assumed that the performance of actions is influenced by various physical, psychological, socio-cultural, environmental and political-economic factors in such a way that an individual degree of dependence or independence from nursing support arises .
Conceptually, the life activities show a strong similarity to the 14 basic needs of the Virginia Henderson care model . Other nursing theorists ( e.g. Monika Krohwinkel , Liliane Juchli , Christoph Abderhalden ) have taken up the approach of Roper, Tierney and Logan, developed it further and made it more precise. From 1961, the nursing scientist Antje Grauhan and the medical historians Heinrich Schipperges and Eduard Seidler gradually combined the old Hippocratic tradition with the nursing theories of Faye Glenn Abdellah, Virginia Henderson and Roper, Logan, Tierney. Not least through the work of Ruth Schröck , Monika Krohwinkel and Liliane Juchli, the theoretical approach of Roper, Logan and Tierney has achieved the greatest degree of awareness in today's nursing and geriatric care in German-speaking countries. Virginia Henderson's nursing theory became part of the statutes of the International Council of Nurses (ICN).
Fonts
- with Winifred Logan, Allison J. Tierney: The Roper-Logan-Tierney model. Based on life activities (LA). Huber, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-456-83597-3 .
- Nursing principles in the nursing process. Huber, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-456-82776-8 .
- with Winifred Logan, Allison J. Tierney (Eds.): The Elements of Nursing. A care model based on a life model. Recom, Basel 1983.
See also
- Assistance (handicapped assistance)
- Daily Living Activities (ATL)
- Activities and Existential Experiences of Life (AEDL)
Individual evidence
- ^ Antje Grauhan : The situation of modern nursing. Lecture given on July 9, 1965 at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg with Heinrich Schipperges , In: Christine R. Auer: And then suddenly it was said: “No longer Schipperges' control loop, but Roper's nursing theory Logan, take Tierney … ”. Antje Grauhans writings for Reinald Schmidt-Richter, self-published Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047828-4 .
Web links
- Nancy Ropers Elements in Nursing on altenpflegeschueler.de
- Obituary on independent.co.uk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roper, Nancy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nursing scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetheral , Cumberland , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 2004 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh , Scotland |