Winifred W. Logan

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Winifred W. Logan (born May 9, 1931 in the United Kingdom , † 2010 ) was a British nurse , university professor and nursing scientist . Together with her colleagues Nancy Roper and Alison Tierney , she published the care model of life activities in 1976 (also called the RLT model after the authors). This care model also had a major influence on the development of care theory in German-speaking countries. Logan became managing director of the International Council of Nurses and senior nurse at the Ministry of Health in Abu Dhabi , where she supported the establishment of various nursing services.

Career

Winifred W. Logan was born on May 9, 1931. She was trained as a nurse at the University of Edinburgh , where she also did her Masters . Logan moved to Columbia University in New York City and received another Masters in Nursing there in 1966 . In the course of her career (around 1950), Logan met foreign patients who had experienced some kind of cultural shock in a Canadian tuberculosis and lung clinic. This led them to realize that caregivers should consider biological, psychological, sociocultural and environmental needs in caring. Logan returned to the nursing department at the University of Edinburgh in 1962 to teach. She was also appointed Head of Nursing Education in Scotland during the 1960s .

Logan became Executive Director of the International Council of Nurses and Advisor to the World Health Organization in Malaysia , Europe and Iraq . At the invitation of Roper, Roper, Logan and Tierney (also at the University of Edinburgh) then worked together to develop their nursing theory from 1976 and 1980. Logan eventually went to Abu Dhabi as head of nursing at the Ministry of Health and helped there the establishment and establishment of nursing services.

Logan died in 2010, the date and place of death are unknown.

Publications

with Nancy Roper and Alison J. Tierney:

  • Learning to Use the Process of Nursing Churchill Livingstone, 1981 ISBN 0-443-02234-8
  • The Elements of Nursing Churchill Livingstone, 2nd edition, 1985 ISBN 978-0-443-03028-4
  • The Elements of Nursing: a model for nursing based on a model for living Churchill Livingstone, 3rd edition, 1990, ISBN 0-443-03950-X

with Alison J. Tierney:

  • The Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing: Based on Activities of Living , 2010 ISBN 9780702041075

The RLT model has been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Japanese.

literature

  • Austyn Snowden, Allan Donnell, Tim Duffy: Pioneering theories in nursing Andrews UK, 2014 ISBN 978-1-85642-481-3 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ McEwen, Melanie .: Theoretical basis for nursing , Wills, Evelyn M., 3rd. Edition, Wolters Kluwer / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2011, ISBN 978-1-60547-323-9 , OCLC 432240617 .
  2. ^ A b Pioneering theories in nursing , Snowden, Austyn., Donnell, Allan., Duffy, Tim, Dr., Andrews UK, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-85642-481-3 , p. Chapter 16, OCLC 891446670 .
personal data
SURNAME Logan, Winifred W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nursing theorist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH 2010