Nursing Theory Lecture 5: Ernestine Wiedenbach

Ernestine Wiedenbach 

(1964) 

The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing 

The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing
• Developed the Clinical Nursing – A Helping Art Model.
• She advocated that the nurse’s individual philosophy or central purpose lends credence to nursing care.
• She believed that nurses meet the individual’s need for help through the identification of the needs, administration of help, and validation that actions were helpful. Components of clinical practice: Philosophy, purpose, practice and an art.



Metaparadigm 

Person
• Any individual who is receiving help from a member of the health profession or from a worker in the field of health.

Environment 
• Not specifically addressed

Health 
• Concepts of nursing, client, and need for help and their relationships imply health-related concerns in the nurse—client relationship.

Nursing 
• The nurse is a functional human being who acts, thinks, and feels. All actions, thoughts, and feelings underlie what the nurse does