Lydia E.

Hall
Care, Core, Cure Model
of Nursing
Presented by Tanisha Pryor

Identification of Lydia E. Hall

Born in New York City September 21, 1906
Graduated from York Hospital School of Nursing in

Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science & Master of Arts from Teachers College,
Columbia University
Died February 27, 1969 of heart disease in Queens Hospital of
New York

Halls Background

She spent her early years as a registered nurse working for

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company where the main focus was
on preventive health.
Worked for New York Heart Association as a staff nurse.
Advocate of community involvement in public health issues.
Professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.
Research analyst in the field of cardiovascular disease (Alligood &
Tomey 2010).

Interest & Research Focus

Research in the field of rehabilitation of chronically ill

patients brought her to develop the Care, Cure, Core Theory.

Interested in rehabilitative nursing and the role that the
professional nurse played and the patients recovery and
welfare (Alligood & Tomey 2010).
She became the founder and first director of the Loeb Center
for Nursing and Rehabilitation at the Montefiore Medical
Center in Bronx, New York

The Care Circle

Explains the role of nurses and focused on performing that noble task of the

nurturing patients.
Component of this model is the motherly care provided by the nurses
(George, J.B 2000).
Which may include:

Comfort measures
Patient instructions
Helping patients meet their needs where help is needed.

Major purpose of care is to achieve an interpersonal relationship with the individual that will
facilitate the development of the core ( Texas Womans University).

The Core Circle

The person or patient to whom nursing care is directed and

needed.
Core involves the therapeutic use of self, and empathizes the
use of reflections (Texas Womans University).
The core has goals set by himself and not by any other
person.
Behaves according to his or hers feelings and values (George,
J. B 200).

The Cure Circle

Focus on nursing related to the physicians orders.
Attention given to patients by medical professionals.
Shared by the nurse with other health professionals, such as

physicians or physical therapist.

Interventions or actions geared toward treating the patient for
whatever illness or disease he or she is suffering from
(George, J.B 200).

How do nurses relate?

Hall proposed many ideas of professional practice, such as the

nursing process.
Improvement of nurses to meet the needs of the patient with better
professional nursing care.
Management of nursing care.
Establishment of nurse patient relationship.
Collaboration with other health professionals.
Deliverance of care to ill patients.

Limitations to care
Individuals must pass an acute stage of illness for you to

successfully apply her theory.

Therefor theory relates to only those who are ill.
No nursing contact with healthy individuals, families or
communities and it negates the concept of health
maintenance and prevention (Gonzalo 2011).
Lacks application to pediatric care.

Conclusion
Hall believed patients should only receive care from professional nurses.
Hall defined her philosophy on the basis of the patient.
Hall believed that patients come to the hospital in biological crisis (acute

episode of a disease) and that medicine does a great job at treating this
crisis, but fails to treat the chronic underlying disease. This is where she
felt nursing could make a significant difference.
Hall felt that taking over this sub-acute phase was the way for nursing to
legitimize itself into a true profession.

References
Alligood, M., & Tomey, A. (2010). Nursing theorists and their

work, seventh edition (No ed.). Maryland Heights: MosbyElsevier.

George, J.B.; Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional
Nursing Practice; 2000.
Gonzalo, (2011). Theoretical foundations of nursing.
nursingtheories.weebly.com/lydia-e-hall.html
Texas Womans University. Nursing Theorist.