What Is Neuman's System Model?

Neuman’s system model encompasses nursing practice and relates interventions to stressors the client is experiencing. These stressors can be physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual. The overall goal of the model is to facilitate the client and family to obtain maximal level of wellness through stress reduction and interventions. This model is used to identify stressors of the client and to intervene before the stressor causes symptoms or further problems for the client. It is used in nursing practice to facilitate goal-directed, unified, wholistic approaches to patient care. The model also serves to prevent division in patient care with a multidisciplinary team.

Nursing Theory
The Neuman Systems
Such measures included, seeing your health care provider at least annually for a thorough foot exam, inspecting your feet daily for any changes, and informing your health care provider if any changes in your feet are noticed such as cuts or breaks in your skin. Also the patient was informed on daily measures for foot care such as, wearing well fitted comfortable shoes, washing your feet every day, keeping skin soft and moisturized, and protecting feet and skin from hot or cold. (Ignatavicius, & Workman, 2013) The patient was also given a handout with this information included on
The stressor of this medical condition has not yet caused any symptoms but this intervention will reduce the possibility of any symptoms happening from this stressor. This teaching plan increases the patient’s knowledge of diabetic foot care and will help increase the client’s awareness of diabetic maintenance. The defense mechanism of denial and fatigue that the patient is experiencing are barriers to teaching the patient and are also other stressors the patient is encountering which also relate to the systems