MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Conclusion. Abdellah’s typology of 21 nursing problems is a conceptual model mainly concerned with patient’s needs and nurses’ role in problem identification using a problem analysis approach. According to the model, patients are described as having physical, emotional, and sociological needs.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Twenty-One Nursing Problems Theory was developed by Faye Glenn Abdellah. Her model of nursing was progressive for the time in that it refers to a nursing diagnosis during a time in which nurses were taught that diagnoses were not part of their role in health care.

Detailed explanation-3: -Abdellah’s typology was divided into three areas: (1) the physical, sociological, and emotional needs of the patient; (2) the types of interpersonal relationships between the nurse and the patient; and (3) the common elements of patient care.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abdellah identified 21 problems to maintain or attain physical, psychological, and social balance of patients. Moreover, the needs of patients are further divided into four categories: physiologic, safety, love and belonging (emotional), self-actualization needs, derived from Maslow’s pyramid hierarchy of needs.