4TH - WEIDENBACH (TFN) Flashcards
professional
educator, writer, practices as nurse-midwife.
ERNESTINE WEIDENBACH
was an early nursing leader who is probably best known for her work in theory development and maternal infant nursing.
ERNESTINE WEIDENBACH
She wrote with
DICKOFF AND JAMES
Wiedenbach was so impressed with the role of nurses that after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Wellesley College in
1922
Ernestine Wiedenbach was born in
Hamburg, Germany, in 1900.
graduating with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from
Wellesley College in 1922
awarded her a license as a Registered Nurse in .
John Hopkins School of Nursing in 1925.
After graduating from the Maternity Center Association School for Nurse-Midwives in New York in ____ with a diploma in nurse-midwifery,
1946
maternity nursing lecturer at
Yale University in 1952.
Worked as a _____ until _____
Teacher, 1951
In ____, she was promoted to assistant professor of obstetric nursing.
1954
Ernestine Wiedenbach was born on
Aug 18, 1900 in Hamburg, Germany
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
(BSN) degree from
Teachers College, Columbia University.
Master’s degree in Nursing Education from
Teachers College, Columbia University.
Wiedenbach’s most significant contribution to the field of nursing was her development of the
“Helping Art of Clinical Nursing” theory.
She introduced this theory in the _____, emphasizing the humanistic aspect of nursing care and the importance of understanding individual patient needs.
1960s
Her theory focused on the nurse’s role in helping patients identify and meet their healthcare needs, blending both art and science in nursing practice.
Weidenbach
Weidenbach died on
March 8, 1998
develop prescriptive theory by colleagues
William Dickoff and Patricia James.
Wiedenbach was appointed as an instructor in maternity nursing at
Yale University School of Nursing in 1952
and later became an Assistant Professor of Obstetric Nursing in 1954 and Associate Professor in 1956.
and later became an Assistant Professor of Obstetric Nursing in 1954 and Associate Professor in 1956.
She wrote a nursing classic,
“Family-Centered Maternity Nursing,”
Wiedenbach retired from service in 1966 and died at the age of — on
March 8, 1998.
97
Wiedenbach stressed that the nurse’s role
is to provide personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
Influenced by the works of
Ida Orlando.
are essential to personal integrity and self-worth; whatever an individual does at any given moment is representative of the best judgment available for that person in that moment.
Self-awareness and self-acceptance
Wiedenbach introduced the Helping-Triad
Model, which consists of three essential components:
- The Nurse
- The patient
- The Patient’s Healthcare Needs:
Wiedenbach introduced the Helping-Triad
Model, which consists of three essential components:
- The Nurse
- The Patient
- The Patient’s Healthcare Needs
- Wiedenbach stressed the importance of the nurse’s ability to identify the patient’s healthcare needs accurately. This involves not only assessing physical symptoms but also understanding the patient’s emotional and psychological well-being.
Identification of Healthcare Need:
Once the patient’s healthcare needs are identified, the nurse takes appropriate actions to meet those needs. This may involve providing physical care, emotional support, or guidance in self-care.
ACTION AND INTERVENTION
- Collaboration between the nurse and the patient is essential in Wiedenbach’s theory. The nurse educates and guides the patient in self-care, empowering them to take an active role in their own health.
Collaboration and Teaching:
defines the patient as any person receiving help of some kind from the health care system.
Wiedenbach’s model of nursing
Nurses ascribe to an explicit philosophy.
Basic to this are:
- Reverence for the gift of life
- Respect for the dignity, worth, autonomy, and individuality of each human being
- Resolution to act dynamically in relation to one’s, beliefs
-defined as “any measure desired by the patient that has the potential to restore or extend the ability to cope with various life situations that affect health and wellness.”
NEED FOR HELP
“any individual who is receiving help of some kind, be it care, instruction or advice from a member of the health profession or from a worker in the field of health.”
PATIENT
Each Person (whether nurse or patient), is endowed with a unique potential to develop self-sustaining resources.
People generally tend towards independence and fulfillment of responsibilities.
PERSON
is a functioning human being who not only acts, but thinks and feels. A nurse uses his or her knowledge in his or her role.
The nurse
encompasses all that has been perceived and grasped by the human mind.
KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge may be : (FSP)
Factual
Speculative
Practical
FOUR MAIN ELEMENTS IN CLINICAL
NURSING (PPPA)
PHILOSOPHY
PURPOSE
PRACTICE
ART
The nurse’s philosophy is his or her attitude and belief about life, and how that affects reality for him or her.
PHILOSOPHY
Wiedenbach believed that there were 3 essential components associated with a nursing philosophy:
- Reverence for life
- Respect for the dignity, worth, autonomy and individuality of each human being and
- resolution to act on personally and professionally held beliefs.
is that which the nurse wants to accomplish through her actions.
PURPOSE
consists of the observable nursing actions affected by beliefs and feelings about meeting the patient’s need for help
PRACTICE
includes understanding the patient’s needs, developing goals and actions intended to enhance the patient’s ability, and directing the activities related to the medical plan to improve the patient’s condition.
ART
The Art of nursing includes
- understanding patients needs and concerns
- developing goals and actions intended to enhance patients ability and
- directing the activities related to the medical plan to improve the patient’s condition.
- The nurses also focus on
prevention of complications related to reoccurrence or development of new concerns.
carried out to achieve a specific patient-centered purpose rather than the completion of the skill itself being the end goal; made up of a variety of actions, and characterized by harmony of movement, precision, and effective use of self.
NURSING SKILLS
2 TYPES OF JUDGEMENTS
Clinical and Sound Judgement
represents the nurse’s likeliness to make sound decisions, which are based on differentiating fact from assumption and relating them to cause and effect.
CLINICAL JUDGEMENT
the result of disciplined functioning of mind and emotions, and improves with expanded knowledge and increased clarity of professional purpose.
SOUND JUDGEMENT
WIEDENBACH’S
PRESCRIPTIVE
THEORY IS BASED ON THREE FACTORS: (CPR)
- The central purpose which the practitioner recognizes as essential to the particular discipline.
- The prescription for the fulfillment of the central purpose.
- The realities in the immediate situation that influence the central purpose.