Dexter R.

Gromia
BSN 1-J
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NURSING THEORIST: LYDIA HALL

Biography and Theories

● Lydia Hall was a rehabilitation nurse who used her philosophy of nursing to
establish the Loeb Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at Montefiore Hospital in
New York.

● she published more than 20 articles about the Loeb Center and her theories of
long-term care and chronic disease control.

● Hall’s work was presented in “Nursing: What Is It?” in The Canadian Nurse. In
1969, the Loeb Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation was discussed in the
International Journal of Nursing Studies.

● Hall used three interlocking circles to represent aspects of the patient and
nursing functions.

● The care circle represents the patient’s body, the cure circle represents the
disease that affects the patient’s physical system, and the core circle represents
the inner feelings and management of the person, The three circles change in
size and overlap in relation to the patient’s phase in the disease process.

Hall’s Theory

A nurse functions in all three circles but to different degrees. For example, in the
care phase, the nurse gives hands-on bodily care to the patient in relation to activities
of daily living such as toileting and bathing. In the cure phase, the nurse applies
medical knowledge for the treatment of the person, and in the core phase, the nurse
addresses the social and emotional needs of the patient for effective communication
and a comfortable environment
 The Core, Care, and Cure Model

The Person

Social Sciences Therapeutic use

of self aspects of Nursing

“The Core”

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The Body The Disease

Pathological and Therapeutic
Sciences, Seeing the patient
Natural and Biological and family through the
Sciences Intimate bodily care medical care aspects of
for nursing nursing
“The Cure”
“The Care”

Key Concepts & Definition

The core represents as the inner feelings and management of the person in
which the nurse addresses the social and emotional needs of the patient for effective
communication and a comfortable environment , The cure circle serves as the disease
that affects the patient’s physical health in which the nurse applies medical knowledge
for treatment of the person, and the care circle represents the patient’s body in which
the nurse gives hands-on bodily care to the patient in relation to activities of daily
living.

The Key concept are being defined logically in relation to how each of them are
being used to describe the theory in a way that it is easy to apply and understand care
especially in nursing profession.

Major Assumptions

● Loeb Center for Nursing published in 1975 revealed that those admitted to the
nursing unit when compared with those in a traditional unit were readmitted less
often, were more independent, had higher post discharge quality of life, and
were more satisfied with their hospital experience.

● Lydia Hall’s theory was used to show improvement in patient-nurse

communication, self-growth, and self-awareness in patients whose heart failure
was managed in the home setting and for the nursing process and critical
thinking linked to disaster preparedness.

● Hall believed that professional nursing care has tend recovery, and as less
medical care was needed, more professional nursing care and teaching were
necessary.

● She stressed the autonomous function of nursing, and the provision of hospital
beds grouped into units that focus on the delivery of therapeutic nursing.

● An article that she published about long term care and chronic diseases control.

Implications to Practice, Education, and Research

Hall’s Theories contributes a huge factor into giving care in nursing profession,
implications in correlation to research is to know more about the theory to explain why
is this theory important and why it should be practiced, and for education and practice,
it offers an idea of how care should be done.
References:

Alligood, M. (2010) Nursing Theorists and their works. 7th ed. Retrieved from
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