Ida Jean Orlando

Assessment is figuring out what

the patient needs to be helped and

is retrieved from the patient’s behavior. Diagnosis is the identification of

what is needed for that help.

Planning is setting goals to

relieve the patient’s distress.

Implementation is the carrying

out of the planned goals.

Evaluation is determining if the

need is met and how effective it was.

Orlando is credited with being one of the first theorists to publish topics on the nursing process, and her writings were also an early example of nursing research about nursing practice.

"Nursing….is responsive to individuals who suffer or anticipate a sense of helplessness, it is focused on the process of care in an immediate experience, it is concerned with providing direct assistance to individuals in whatever setting they are found for the purpose of avoiding, relieving, diminishing or curing the individuals sense of helplessness." - Orlando

Orlando identified the key points of what made an effective nurse and laid out a more defined plan of the nurse’s role, she made a huge impact on the nursing world.

Orlando’s theory has been said to help nurses achieve more successful patient outcomes such as; fall reduction, and remains helpful to new nurses as they begin their practice.

Ida Jean Orlando

Nursing Process Theory

1926-2007

• Ida Jean Orlando was born August 12, 1926 and died at the age of 81 in 2007.
• In 1947, she received a diploma in nursing from the Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital School of Nursing in New York.
• In 1951, she received a Bachelor of Science degree in public health nursing from St. John’s University in Brooklyn, New York.
• In 1954, she received her Master of Arts degree in mental health consultation from Teachers College, Columbia University.
• Orlando was recognized as a “Nursing Living Legend” by the Massachusetts Registered Nurse Association
• Published her first book in 1961 called “The Dynamic Nurse Patient Relationship”
• She continued to develop and refine her work and published a second book in 1972 “The discipline and teaching of nursing process an evaluative study”

While providing the

overall framework

for nursing, the use of her

theory does not exclude

nurses from using other theories

while caring for the patient.

Applying Orlando’s theory meant that a nurse’s intuition came into play much more, and nurses were seen as a much larger player in the progression of a patient.

References

*Orlando stated “persons become patients who require nursing care when they have needs for help that cannot be met independently because they have physical limitations, have negative reactions to an environment ,or have an experience that prevents them from communicating their needs.”

*Orlando proposed a positive correlation between the length of time the patient experiences unmet needs and the degree of the patients distress.

*Patients will be treated as individuals

and they will have active and

constant input into their own care.

The purpose of nursing is to supply the help a patient requires in order for his needs to be met

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She developed her nursing process

theory in the late 1950s while

she was the principal investigator

at the Yale School of Nursing.

Ida Jean Orlando

Nursing Process Theory

By Quiqui Barnes & Jessica Fisher