Question

Detail the concepts of Levine's Conservation Model

Answer 1

Ans) Levine's Conservation Model:

• Theorist - Myra Estrine Levine
• Diploma in nursing:-Cook County SON, Chicago, 1944
• BSN:-University of Chicago,1949
• MSN:-Wayne State University, Detroit, 1962
• Publication:- An Introduction to Clinical Nursing, 1969, 1973 & 1989
• Received honorary doctorate from Loyola University in 1992
• Clinical experience in OT technique and oncology nursing
• Civilian Nurse at the Gardiner General Hospital
• Director of Nursing at Drexel Home in Chicago
• Clinical Instructor at Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska
• Administrative supervisor at University of Chicago
• Chairperson of clinical nursing at Cook Country SON
• Visiting professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel
• Died in 1996

Major Concepts of Conservational model

• Goal of the model is to promote adaptation and maintain wholeness using the principles of conservation
• Model guides the nurse to focus on the influences and responses at the organismic level
• Nurse accomplishes the goal of model through the conservation of energy, structure and personal and social integrity

Adaptation

• Every individual has a unique range of adaptive responses
• The responses will vary by heredity, age, gender or challenges of illness experiences
• While the responses are same, the timing and manifestation of organismic responses will be unique for each individual pulse rate.
• An ongoing process of change in which patient maintains his integrity within the realities of environment
• Achieved through the "frugal, economic, contained and controlled use of environmental resources by individual in his or her best interest"

Wholeness

• Exist when the interaction or constant adaptations to the environment permits the assurance of integrity
• Promoted by use of conservation principle

Conservation

• The product of adaptation
• "Keeping together "of the life systems or the wholeness of the individual
• Achieving a balance of energy supply and demand that is with in the unique biological realities of the individual