num_pages: 60
description: Ida Jean Orlando, one of the leading nurse theorists, sees nursing as the means of providing direct assistance to individuals to avoid, relieve, diminish or cure a person′s sense of helpnessness. She also focuses on communication within the nurse-client relationship and identifies the validation process as essential to effective nursing care.
language: English
title: Ida Jean Orlando: A Nursing Process Theory
titlecomplete: Ida Jean Orlando: A Nursing Process Theory (Notes on Nursing Theories)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc