Ida Jean Orlando's Theory Of Nursing Process Discipline

Ida Jean Orlando was a well-educated theorist with several advanced degrees in nursing. She was a well-respected and influential role model to others around her. Her career was filled with many journeys of different roles such as an educator, consultant, researcher and a practitioner. Orlando’s clinical expertise landed her to develop the theory of nursing process discipline in which emphasized the interaction between a patient and a nurse also including the steps in clarifying immediate patient needs.

Ida Jean Orlando was a first generation Irish American born in New Jersey on August 12, 1926. She dedicated her life studying nursing and graduated in 1947 from a New York medical college of school of nursing and received a Bachelor of Science

Of the four concepts, Orlando only included three in her theory of Nursing Process Discipline: person, health, and nursing (Wayne, 2012). Orlando’s theory defines her major concept around patient’s need and the nature of building a nurse-patient relationship. Identification of a person in the theory is considered the main factor and what the theory revolves around. People are the concept behind the theory because when it comes to nursing practice they are considered the focus. Health in the theory focuses in continuation of the evolvement around meeting patients needs. Orlando believes that if the patient’s needs have been met this can modify the patient’s health status therefore creating a productive environment.

Orlando’s nursing theory has many assumptions with the main assumption being that it patients cannot cope with their needs they become distress due to not being able to handle helplessness. Patients may need help when in communicating with a healthcare professional such as a nurse and become uncomfortable when unable to do so independently. Another assumption is that every human being is secretive, explicit,