Roper Logan and Tierney
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Roper, Logan and Tierney's Model of Nursing
This page contains details of Roper, Logan and Tierney's model of nursing as published in 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1998. You can also find background information on Nursing models and Nursing.
Introduction
First developed in 1980, this model is based upon work by Nancy Roper in 1976. It is the most widely used nursing model in the United Kingdom and is particularly well used by nurses in traiditional medical and surgical nursing. The model is based loosely upon the activities of daily living that are evolved from the work of Henderson in 1966. Wheras Henderson identified 14 activies that "people engage in, in order to live", Roper et al only use 12.
Activities of Daily Living
- Maintaining a Safe Environment
- Communication
- Breathing
- Eating and Drinking
- Elimination
- Washing and Dressing
- Thermoregulation
- Mobilisation
- Work and Play
- Expressing Sexuality
- Sleeping
- Death and Dying
The Life Span Continuum
The model also encorporate a life span contiuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to full independent in the midlife, and returns to fully dependent in their old age/after death.
Modifications
Within short-stay settings such as surgery it is common for the activities 'sexuality' and 'death' to be combined into one named 'other' and for the addition of an activity 'pain'. Such modifications are common and depend upon institution.