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Tailoring nursing care to the individual client: Empirical challenge of a theoretical concept
Author(s) -
Brown Sarah Jo
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770150107
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , empirical research , psychology , content (measure theory) , nursing , medicine , epistemology , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics
Tailoring of client‐nurse interaction to the client's individuality is a central concept in Cox's interaction Model of Client Health behavior, and represents a specification of the term individualization of cafe (Cox, 1982). In this study, the empirical adequacy of Cox's definition of tailoring was challenged by comparing the content of naturally occurring encounters between an expert nurse and clients to content predicted by the definition. Analyses of the content of the encounters revealed that: client individuality was featured; client individuality and clinical assessment‐management were considered in association with one another; and a majority of interventions were fitted to the individual client. The findings were interpreted as supportive of the empirical existence of tailoring as specified by Cox, and provided the bases for suggested refinements of the theoretical model.