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Caring In Nursing Practice EXAM 5 Flashcards

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Caring a universal phenomenon that influences

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The way we think, feel, and behave

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Caring is at the heart of a nurses ability to work with

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All patients in a respectful and therapeutic way

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Benners caring is primary

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Caring determines what matters to a person
Caring helps you provide patient centered care

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Leningers transcultural caring

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  • caring is an essential human need
  • caring helps an individual or group improve a human condition
  • caring helps to protect, develop, nurture, and sustain people
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Watson transpersonal caring

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Promotes healing and wholeness
- rejects the disease orientation to health care
- places care before cure
- emphasizes the nurse patient relationship

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Swansons theory of caring

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-Defines as a nurturing way of relating to an individual
- states that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing practice

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Nursing caring theories have common —

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Themes

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Caring is highly

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Relational

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Caring theories are valuable when assessing patient —- of being cared for in a multicultural environment

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Perceptions

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Enabling is an —- of —-

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Aspect of caring

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Knowing the context of a patients illness helps you choose and individualize —- that will help the patient

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Interventions

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Patients perspective of caring

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  • connecting with patients and families
  • being present
  • respecting values, beliefs, and health care choices
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In any patient encounter a nurse needs to know what —- is —- appropriate

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Behavior is ethically

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An ethic of care is —-, so professional nurses do not make professional decisions based solely on —— or —— principles

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Unique : intellectual : analytical

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Always be your patients

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Advocate

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As you deal with health and illness in your practice, you grow in your

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Ability to care and develop caring behaviors

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Caring is one of those human behaviors that we can — & —-

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Give & receive

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Recognize the importance of

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Self care

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Use caring behaviors to reach out to your —- and care for them as well

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Colleagues

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Providing presence (6)

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  • eye contact
  • body language
  • tone of voice
  • listening
  • positive
  • encourage attitude
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Touch

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Provides comfort
Create a connection
Ex: back rub

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Listening

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  • creates trust
  • opens lines of communication
  • creates a mutual relationship
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Knowing the patient

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Develops over time
The core process of clinical decision making (knowing patient)

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Aspects of knowing the patient (3)

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  1. Responses to therapy, routines, and habits
  2. Coping resources
  3. Physical capacities and endurance
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Spiritual health is achieved when a person can find a balance between his life —-, —-, and —
Systems and those of others

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Values, goals, and beliefs

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Intrapersonal

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Connected to self

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Interpersonal

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Connected to others and the environment

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Transpersonal

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Connected to God

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Relieving symptoms and suffering

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  • give a patient comfort, dignity, respect, & peace
  • support measures to family or spouse
  • creating a physical environment that soothes
  • comforting through listening, nonjudgmental, caring presence
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Challenges to caring

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  • task oriented
  • institution demands
  • time constraints
  • reliance on technology, cost effective strategies
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Health care must become what 2 things to make a positive difference in patients lives

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Holistic and humanistic

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Caring key points (6)

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  • caring is specific and relational
  • mutual give and take
  • being there and being with
  • touch
  • listening
  • knowing the patient
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System of support and structure within a family that extends beyond the walls of the household

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Family durability

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Ability to cope with expected and unexpected stressors

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Family resiliency

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Uniqueness of each family unit

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Family diversity

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Families represent more than a set of

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Individuals

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A family is more than a sum of its

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Individual members

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Families are

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Diverse

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Consists of husband and wife (and perhaps one or more children)

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Nuclear family

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Includes relatives in addition to nuclear family

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Extended family

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Family is formed when one parent leaves the nuclear family because of death, divorce, or desertion

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Single parent family

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Formed when parents bring unrelated children from prior adoptive or foster parenting relationships into a new, joint living situation

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Blended family

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Include multi-adult households, “skip generation” families
- grandparents caring for grandchildren

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Alternative family

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People are marrying

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Later

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Women are

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Delaying child birth

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Couples are having

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Fewer children or none at all

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Remarriage, results in

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Blended families

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Single parent families are

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Stabilizing

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More people are

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Living alone

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What is an increasing concern

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Adolescent pregnancy

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These couples are family units

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Homosexuals

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America is

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Aging

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More — are raising their —

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Grandparents : grandchildren

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Changing economic status

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Inadequate health insurance coverage
Inadequate number of children below poverty level

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Domestic violence

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Happens across all social classes
Long term physical and emotional consequences

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Acute/chronic Illness impacts

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Families, left waiting to hear updates
Are a global problem
Despite the stressors families want to accept and manage the illness or disability

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Trauma impact of illness and injury

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Families struggle to cope
Makes families vulnerable and harder to make decisions
Advocate for pt and family & answer questions honestly
Don’t give false hope to pt or families
Take time to make sure family is comfortable

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End of life care impact of illness and injury

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Some family members may be ready for a loved ones death but still need support, assurance, and presence is great

Use presence to created a therapeutic relationship

Encourage patient and family to make decisions about care

Help family set up home care / obtain hospice / grief support

Make sure families members know what to do at the time of death

If you are present at TOD be sensitive to families needs ~ provide privacy and time to say goodbye

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Unattached young adult

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Accepting parent- offspring separation

  • differentiating self in relation to family of origin
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Joining of families through marriage: newly married couple

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Committing to new system

  • forming marital system to make space for children
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Family with young children

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Accepting new generation of members into system

Adjustments to marital system to make room for children

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Family with adolescents

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Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to include children’s independence

  • beginning shift toward concerns for older generation
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Family with young adults

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Laughing children and moving on accepting multitude of exits from and entries into family system

  • adjusting to reduction in family size
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Family without children

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Maintaining flexibility

  • refocusing on careers and new career opportunities
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Family later in life

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Accepting shifting of generational roles

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Function

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What the family does

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Structure

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The ongoing membership of the family and the pattern of relationships

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The families beliefs, values, and practices influence

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Health behaviors

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Knowing risks of generic factors helps the families make

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Informed choices

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Structures that are too rigid or too flexible sometimes

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Threaten family functioning

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Rigid structures

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Specifically dictate who accomplishes difference tasks

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Family functions is

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What a family does

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Assessing the needs of a family

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  • culture aspects
  • discharge planning
  • family focused care
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Planning care

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Plan care that members clearly understand and agree to follow

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