This blog aims to provide a more in-depth information about the theorist, Ida Jean Orlando, specifically her early years and career as a nurse. We will also discuss her well-known theory (nursing process), how it is application in the nursing practice, and how we can relate it to the nursing paradigm.

    Before we begin the in-depth discussion of the theory and the theorist, here's a little and general information about the theory first: The nursing process is a modified scientific technique that is utilized in the nursing profession. Ida Jean Orlando first described nursing practice as a four-stage nursing process in 1958 but it became a five-stage process as diagnosis phase was later included.