Theory of Nursing Systems

The Theory of Nursing Systems proposes that nursing is human action: nursing systems are action systems formed (designed and produced) by nurses through the exercise of their nursing agency for persons with health-derived or health-associated limitations in self acre or dependent-care. Nursing agency includes concepts of deliberate action, including intentionally and operations of diagnosis, prescription, and regulation. Nursing system may be produced for individuals, for persons who constitute a dependent-care unit, for groups whose members have therapeutic self-care demands with similar components or who have similar limitations for engagement in self-care or dependent-care, or for families or other multiperson units.

Source:

Ann Marriner Tommey, Martha Raile Alligood. Nursing Theorists and Their Work. Mosby: 1998.