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The external factors in the
care relationship: politics,
science, society etc.
Figure 6.1: Hodges Model (2000)
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Together we decided that “Hodges Model” (2000) was a suitable model to
inform the care plan design.The co-researchers chose Hodges Model over the
“Roper, Logan and Tierney Model” (1996) as they collectively felt that this
model suited residential care better than the traditional Roper, Logan and Tierney
Model which was originally designed for acute hospital care. The literature had
revealed that the Roper, Logan and Tierney model has been criticised for not
enabling explicit documentation of client goals and nursing interventions and
nurses report that it is constraining and physically orientated (Murphy et al,
2000). In contrast, the co-researchers felt that Hodges Model is essentially
concerned with the person (resident) in a social context. It derives from the
intervention of the nurse being future orientated, increasing the health choices,
health chances or health prospects of individuals or groups (including families)
and taking cognisance of the biography of the person or persons being helped.
The people in the care
relationship – the
individualand thegroup
The factors which can affect
the individual or the group:
humanistic or mechanistic
The purposes, processes,
practices and policies which
affect the individual and the
group in the care relationship