chapter 9 Flashcards
Why is theory important?
- Nursing as a profession is strengthened when nursing knowledge is built on sound theory; 2. it’s a useful tool for reasoning, critical thinking, and decision making
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What did Nightingale explain?
Her philosophy of health, illness, and the nurses’s role in caring for patients. Importantly, she made a distinction between the work of nursing and the work of physicians by identifying health rather than illness as the major concern for nursing
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Who is guided by Nightingale’s philosophy?
The nurse that is sensitive to the effect of the environment on the patient’s health or recovery from illness
What is Virginia Henderson’s philosophical approach?
The unique function of the nurse…. is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or a peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge
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Who believed in the human-human approach (caring)?
Jean Watson
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What are the three conceptual models?
DOROTHEA OREM (focuses on the patient’s self care capacities and the process of designing nursing actions to meet the patient’s self-care needs “diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory”); IMOGENE KING (focuses on people, their interpersonal relationships, and social contexts “personal, interpersonal, and social”); SISTER CALLISTA ROY (focuses on the individual as a biopsychosocial adaptive system and described nursing as a humanistic discipline that emphasizes the person’s adaptive or coping abilities)
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What is the difference between a grand theory and a middle range theory?
Grand theory is a broad conceptualization of nursing phenomena and a middle-range theory is narrower in focus and make connections between grand theories and nursing practices
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What did Peplau believe?
Nursing is based on the interpersonal process and the nurse-patient relationship
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What are the goals of a therapeutic relationship?
- Survival of the patient; 2. The patient’s understanding of his/her health problems and learning from these problems as he/she develops new behavior patterns
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Ida Orlando’s theory is specific to what?
Nurse-patient interaction.
The goal of the nurse is to determine and meet patient’s immediate needs and to improve their situation by relieving distress or discomfort.
Her work proposed it is a theory about how nurses process their observations of patient behavior and about how they react to patients based on inferences from patient’s behaviors, including what they say
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Nurses who use Leininger’s theory in practice view view?
Patients in the context of their cultures
