JOYCE S. FITZPATRICK

DR. JOYCE S. FITZPATRICK

• Registered Nurse

• MBA

• Doctor Philosophy of Nursing

• Member of FAAN (Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing

• Theorist

• Writer

• Geriatric Nurse Leader

• Fitzpatrick earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Georgetown University

• MS IN Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from the Ohio University

• PhD in Nursing from New York University

• MBA from Western Reserve University

FAAN (Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing)

Nursing leaders in education, management, practice and research who have achieved success professional nursing.

• Fitzpatrick is presently a professor at Elizabeth Brooks Ford of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Case Western Reserve University

• She was also the Dean of the FPB (Frances Payne Bolton) School of Nursing from 1982 through 1997. She's a pioneer in nursing education, leadership, and research whose work is well-known across five continents.

FITZPATRICK AS A WRITER

Fitzpatrick is also considered as a writer because of the published books she wrote about Nursing. Some of it are:

• Conceptual Models of Nursing

• 201 Careers in Nursing

• Annual Review of Nursing Research, 2001

• Nursing Research Digest

• Career Success Strategies for Nurse Educators

WORKS OF FITZPATRICK

Fitzpatrick is also one of the persons who contributed in making the Florence Cellar Endowed Chair in Gerontologic Nursing, the first Gerontologic chair in the world.

WORKS OF FITZPATRICK

• She also provided consultation on nursing education and research throughout the world.

• She conceptualized support of home care for coronary artery bypass graft patients, health of grandmother caregiving, teaching the use of resources to chronically ill older adults and effects of stress in a caregiver’s health.

JOYCE S. FITZPATRICK

• Fitzpatrick’s abilities and numerous contributions to the advancement of nursing science and practice are legendary. Her leadership has brought substantial research, resources, and recognition to these specialties.

LIFE PERSPECTIVE RHYTHM MODEL THEORY OF FITZPATRICK

• Fitzpatrick's approach to taxonomy in nursing has been considered a primary basis for the development of the substantive structure of the discipline

• Fitzpatrick also conceptualized a nursing model/theory, as Life Perspective Rhythm Model. The theory started out as an effort to develop a language that would define the clinical judgments made by nurses. It evolved into a broader range of categories including the coordination of data set for health statistics, the development computerized patient records and advanced education research.

FITZPATRICK AS A THEORIST

• According to Fitzpatrick, the identification and labeling of concepts allows for recognition and communication with others. Four content concepts that comprise her theory are person, health, wellness-illness and metaparadigm.

4 CONTENT CONCEPTS OF FITZPATRICK

Person

• A term that integrates the concepts of both self and others, and recognizes individuals as having unique biological, psychological, emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual attitudes.

Health

• A dynamic state of being that results from the interaction of person and the environment.

4 CONTENT CONCEPTS OF FITZPATRICK

Wellness-illness

• A promotion of wellness practices, the attentive treatment of those who are acutely or chronically ill or dying, and restorative care of people during convalescence and rehabilitation.

Metaparadigm

• Refers to the transitions through basic metaparadigm concepts of person, environment, health and nursing.

NURSING

• A developing discipline whose central concern is the meaning attached to life.

• Primary purpose of nursing is the promotion and maintenance of an optimal level of wellness.

MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

• The process of human development is characterized by rhythms that occur within the context of continuous person-environment interaction."

• Nursing activity focuses on enhancing the developmental process toward health.

• A central concern of nursing science and the nursing profession is the meaning attributed to life as the basic understanding of human existence.

• The identification and labelling of concepts allows for recognition and communication with others, and the rules for combining those concepts permits thoughts to be shared through language.

LIFE PERSPECTIVE RHYTHM MODEL THEORY

• A complex nursing model which contributed to nursing knowledge by providing taxonomy for identifying and labeling nursing concepts to allow for their universal recognition and communication with others.

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LADY VI ANGELA