¶ … Neuman Health Care Systems Model: Preventative Care for Mr. H

The Neuman Health Care Systems Model was created by Betty M. Neuman in an effort to help nursing students focus on wellness for the client system (McHolm & Geib, 1998). In order to create wellness for a client system, the nursing students use an Assessment and Analysis Tool, which will help in identifying Mr. H's problems (McHolm & Geib, 1998).

First, a nurse must find out Mr. H's profile and define his stressors. This must be done by the nurse and by the concerns expressed by the client (NeumanSystemsModel.org, 2011). It is clear that stressors in this 72-year-old widower's life are affecting his overall health. Recent changes in his life, such as the loss of his wife of 45 years, are a factor in his health changes. It is good that Mr. H is still trying to maintain his normal activity before his wife's passing, like his small farm in Passaic County, New Jersey. However, as he has been bruised by his work in the harvest, it might be best he have assistance, especially after he has been diagnosed with a heart condition: Atrial fibrillation. There is potential that he might be suffering mental health issues after his loss as he has forgotten a family dinner, and is having trouble with his medicine and the checkbook, which are two things his late wife took care of.

It is clear that Mr. H and his children are concerned for his overall health after the passing of his wife. Potentially, Mr. H has forgetfulness, bruising, and low blood pressure. He is taking medicines, but is not sure what each is for. With his low blood pressure and mix...

H might be creating a deadly concoction, as low blood pressure alone may cause issues with the heart, brain, and other body parts not receiving enough blood (A.D.A.M., 2011). It will be importantly for Mr. H to obtain medical records from his primary care doctor in order to assess why he is taking his current medicines. This will assist our facility in determining what might be causing Mr. H's symptoms.
The Newman Health Care Systems Model also focuses on identifying internal, external, and created stressors in order to fix them to produce overall wellness. These can be separated into actual stressors or potential stressors (McHolm & Geib, 1998). Mr. H has serious actual internal stressors: his heart has atrial fibrillation, low blood pressure, fatigue, and contusions. Each of these internal stressors could be related to each other, and some of them could be related to other stressors in Mr. H's life. Clear actual external stressors that Mr. H currently has pertain to duties his wife did before her passing. He has expressed concern about the balancing of his checkbook, as well as not being sure as to why he is taking his four medications. Potential internal stressors that Mr. H may have could be those that trigger emotions about his late wife, as stress has been known to effect a person's memory. As for potential external stressors, Mr. H might be feeling fatigued due to having to maintain and harvest his small farm on his own. As it is just him, his help on the farm has decreased by fifty percent.

The first most important analysis to initiate is what his medicines are commonly used to treat and what common…