Betty Neumans Systems Model Discussion

Betty Neuman’s Systems Model is a holistic grand theory of nursing practice in which the client, an individual, family/group, or community/population, is viewed as an open system which interacts with its internal, external, and created environments and which reacts to various stressors within those environments. Within the theory, nursing care aims to bolster the system’s lines of defense in order to maintain or return to a state of stability, or health, through primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention (Montano, 2021). Neuman’s Systems Model (NSM) has been applied in a wide variety of settings due to its flexibility, and is a fitting theory for public health nursing practice.