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• Presented By:
Nazia 1st Semester MS Nursing 2017-18
30 March 2017
• Importance: Johnson's model guides nursing practice, education, and research; generates
new ideas about nursing and differentiates nursing from other health professions. By focusing
on behavior rather than biology. Johnson's behavioral system model provides a conceptual
framework for nursing education, practice, and research.
Strengths and weakness
Strengths:
A frame of reference for nurses concerned with specific client behaviors.
The theory serves as a tool or guide to motivate patient or the behavior during distress. Its scope
and uses was not limited only to the patient care in practice of nursing but it was also used by the
administrators and also in researches. .
This theory contributed very much in shaping the future of our profession and on how nursing
profession was viewed today.
Weaknesses:
Not clearly interrelate concepts of subsystems.
Lack of clear definitions for the interrelationships among and between the subsystems makes it
difficult to view the entire behavioral system as an entity.
The lack of clear interrelationships among the concepts creates difficulty in work.
Limitations
• Johnson’s B S M is not flexible.
• The definition of concept is so abstract that they
are difficult to use.
• It is difficult to test by development of hypothesis.
• The focus of behavioral system makes it difficult
for nurses work with physical impaired individual
to use this theory.
• Focused in nursing care of hospitalized and ill, not
focused on health promotion or prevention
REFERENCES
Alligood M raile (2014), Nursing Theorist and
Their work (ed.8th ), U.S.,Elsevier Mosby.
• https://www.slideshare.net/cynthiabarrett319/d
orothy-johnson-ppt