Basic Elemets Mod 1 Flashcards
What is the difference between a profession and a job?
Profession: having passion and love to be there, personal accountability, ethical and have commitment
Job: you can go get a job anywhere
What was the primary role of women in health care in the early civilization?
Help with child birth
What were hospitals like in the 19th century?
They were referred to as pest houses, dirty, overcrowded, untrained and not enough staff, poor hygiene practices and people came out sicker than they did coming in
Who is considered the founder of modern day nursing and what did she change?
Flo Nightingale
Known as the original nursing theorist
She took great care of wounded soldiers, kept things clean and wouldn’t let them leave until they got better
How do you think nurses nourish patients in their care?
Nurses adapt, restore health depending on the needs in society and identify a need and fill in the gap
Who were the 2 main influencers that shakes formally prepared nursing in Canada?
Flo Nightingale
Nursing nuns
What were the demographics of nursing students in the 20th century?
Young white woman whose families could afford to send them
How’s has the wider socioeconomic and politic milieu shapes nurses?
Gender, class, race and ethnicity work to include or exclude those who want to enter the profession
What are 6 important concepts in nursing?
Nursing Health Illness Wellness Holism Caring
Who is Virginia Henderson and why is she important?
She was a nurse theorist and was one one the first nurses to define nursing, she wrote the “Nursing need theory” and she realized that nursing just isn’t about caring for sick people but healthy people too
Who is Imogene King and why is she important?
She was a nurse theorist that defined nursing as a process of action, reaction and interaction. She cared for individuals and groups when they have an interference or disturbance in their health state
Who was Jean Watson and why was she important?
Nursing theorist that described nursing as the science of caring,
Define the LaLonde report
Shifted thinking from a focus on treatment of disease to emphasizing the importance of lifestyle factors in health status
ex. Physical activity, diet, weight, managing stress and not abusing drugs or alcohol
Define the Romanow report
Recognized the influence of social and environmental factors on health (the determinants of health)
Define the illness- wellness continuum
Dynamic and changing process in attempt to maintain homeostasis
Define holism
Caring for the patients mind, body and soul, seeing the patient as a unique human being recognized as a person
What are the 6 c’s of caring?
Compassion Competence Confidence Conscience Commitment Comportment
What are the 4 over-arching functions of nursing?
Promoting health and wellness
Preventing illness
Restoring health
Caring for the dying
What are the 3 levels of prevention?
Primary prevention: actions designed to stop problems before they start
Secondary prevention: reducing symptoms or stopping the progress of disease
Tertiary prevention: rehabilitation and treatment
