The Artinian Intersystem Model

Barbara M. Artinian, PhD, RN is professor emeritus in the School of Nursing, Azusa Pacific University. She has taught courses in community health nursing, family theory, nursing theory, and qualitative research methodology. For about 7 years she conducted the Spiritual Care Research Institute that was held in collaboration with Azusa Pacific University and Nurses Christian Fellowship. Doctoral and masters level students attended the Institute and through it she became methodologist for three doctoral students who report their research in this book. She has written a nursing model, the Artinian Intersystem Model, which is used internationally.||Katherine West Scheil is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.|Margaret Conger, EdD, RN is Professor Emeritus at the School of Nursing Northern Arizona University. She is the co-author of the first edition of The Artinian Intersystem Model and the author of Managed care: Practice strategies for Nursing published in 1999 by Sage Publications. She is a well-published contributing author in nursing journals.

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments


I. Theoretical Background of the Artinian Intersystem Model


1. Development of the Artinian Intersystem Model


2. Situational Sense of Coherence: The Salutogenic Model


3. Developing a Sense of Coherence: The Developmental


Environment
4. The Context of Involvement: The Situational Environment


II. Increasing Sense of Coherence in Aggregates


5. Family as Client: An Interactive Interpersonal System


6. Institution As Client: Institutional Interaction


7. Community, State, or Nation as Client: Public Health Nursing


III. The Artinian IntersystemA Model in Educational Settings


8. Learning Theories to Enhance Clinical Practice


9. The Artinian Intersystem Model in Nursing School Education


10. An Emerging Nursing Program In A Developing Country


11. Fostering Mutuality in Clinical Practice


IV. The Artinian Intersystem Model in Practice


12. Advanced Practice Nursing in an Ambulatory Setting


13. Delegation Decision Making


14. Care Management of Heart Failure Patients
in the Outpatient Setting


15. Excellence in Practice: A Resident-Centered Care
Program in a Long-Term Facility


16. Integrating Theory and Practice Using
the Artinian Intersystem Model


Appendix A: Basic block care plan


Appendix B: Artinian Intersystem Model community health care
plan for resolution of the main concern


Appendix C: Artinian Intersystem Model care plan template


Appendix D: Artinian Intersystem Model outline for narrative
care plan for resolution of main concern


Index