Application to Your Advanced Practice Role Assignment 2022

NEUMAN MODEL 1
Template for Models of Practice Assignment
Model Characteristics for the
Neuman Model
Application to Your Advanced Practice
Role
Characteristic 1: Human being is an open
system and human health is dependent on
environmental factors that are not
consistent.
There is no one-size-fits-all intervention
strategy due to the specific stressors and
associated needs of individuals. Nurses need
to review all the environmental stressors
and educate patients to develop protective
strategies to promote wellness based on the
emergent risk factors. Review of all possible
environmental factors ensures that clients
give equal importance to all the stressor
factors (Gonzalo, 2019).
Characteristic 2: The health system is a
dynamic structure consisting of interrelated
segments with the human being at the center
of successive rings.
Provision of health should be tailored to
addressing the known domains/variables of
health: socio-cultural, physical, spiritual,
psychological, and developmental (Bademli
& Duman, 2017). These five domains are
interconnected and one intervention can be
used as a solution to more than one health
domain/variable.
Characteristic 3: Stressors disrupt the
balance of the healthcare system.
Preventive care is the foundation of good
health; health, preventive care strategies
should be given as much importance as
curative aspects. In the case of caregivers
for an individual with mental illness,
education and frequent follow-ups helps to
provide the needed support to the caregiver
so that he or she does not develop health
problems due to distress.
Characteristic 4: Continuity of care outside
a healthcare facility is facilitated by a care
giver.
Nursing interventions should help
caregivers to develop effective coping and
caring strategies.
Characteristics 5: The flexible line of
defense acts as a buffer system that either
increases or lowers protection of a client.
Health promotion activities are an ideal
way through which nurses can help
individuals to determine the state of their
flexible line of defense. After all, nursing
should aim reduce the role of harmful
stressors and expand the flexible line of
defense through promotion of factors that
promote good health and wellness (Fawcett
& Desanto-Madeya, 2013).
Characteristic 6: Intrapersonal,
interpersonal, and extrapersonal factors
mediate the penetration of the flexible line
of defense.
Provision of continued support to a client
while addressing the five variables of health
is meant to help him or her to deal with his
or her stressors effectively and maintain