Conceptual Framework
The Neuman Systems Model provides a framework
for the significance of the exploration of interventional
strategies to decrease stress and anxiety among undergraduate
nursing students in the clinical learning environment.
Fawcett (2000) said, “Neuman’s work focuses
on the wellness of the client system in relation to environmental
stressors and reactions to stressors” (p. 195).
Stress and stress reactions are central to this model, and
the overall goal is to promote optimal wellness and system
stability by preventing stress or by intervening to provide
support (August-Brady, 2000). This model views nursing
as primarily concerned with implementing appropriate
actions in stress-related situations or in reactions of clients
to stress (Fawcett, 2000). Implementing strategies
to decrease high levels of stress and anxiety is a means
of providing student support in the clinical learning environment;
however, strategies can also be implemented by
clinical nursing faculty as a method of prevention