Ida J. Orlando’s Nursing Process 
   Theory
      Theory of the Deliberative Nursing 
      Process
          “How nurses process their observations 
       of patient behavior and also about how 
       they react to patients on the basis of 
       inferences from patients’ behavior, 
       including what they say” (Chitty & Black, 
       2011, p. 315).
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   What is Nursing Theory?
                   “Refers to a group of related 
                    concepts, definitions, and 
                   statements that describe a 
                    certain view of nursing 
                   phenomena from which to 
                   describe, explain, or predict 
                  outcomes” (Chitty & Black, 2011, 
                        p. 303)
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   What is a Nursing Conceptual 
   Model?
   •
   “Provide comprehensive, holistic, perspectives 
   of nursing by describing the relationships of 
   specific concepts” (Chitty & Black, 2011, p. 
   310)
   •
   Are more formalized than a philosophy but 
   more abstract than a theory (Chitty & Black, 
   2011, p.310)
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   Ida Jean Orlando - Pelletier  (1926 – 
   2007)
        Achievements 
    Received her Nursing Diploma at New York Medical College in 
    Received her Nursing Diploma at New York Medical College in 
    1947
    1947
    Earned her BS in Public Health at St. John’s University in 1951
    Earned her BS in Public Health at St. John’s University in 1951
    Received her MA in Mental Health at Columbia University in 1954
    Received her MA in Mental Health at Columbia University in 1954
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    As the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) principle 
    As the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) principle 
    investigator worked on a grant in which she worked to 
    investigator worked on a grant in which she worked to 
    identify factors relevant to the integration of psychiatric 
    identify factors relevant to the integration of psychiatric 
    mental health principles into a nursing curriculum
    mental health principles into a nursing curriculum
    • Published her results in: The Dynamic Nurse-Patient 
     Relationship: Function, Process, And Principles in 1961
    First nurse in the United States to obtain an applied 
    First nurse in the United States to obtain an applied 
    research grant from NIMH.  Allowed her  to conduct the 
    research grant from NIMH.  Allowed her  to conduct the 
    first ever  scientific nursing study of the teaching and use of 
    first ever  scientific nursing study of the teaching and use of 
    the nursing process.
    the nursing process.
    • Published her results in: The Discipline and Teaching of 
     Nursing Process: An Evaluation Study in 1972
                               (Tyra, 2008)
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