Concept Of Nursing Flashcards
Assist client physically and psychologically while preserving client’s dignity.
Caregiver
Identify client problems and communicate them to other members of the health care team.
Communicator
Help clients learn about health and health care procedures to restore or maintain health.
Teacher
Represent, protect the client’s needs and wishes.
Client advocate
Help client to recognize and cope with stressful psychological or social problems, develop improved relationships, and promote personal growth.
Counselor
Assist clients to make modifications in behavior.
Change agent
Influence others to work together to accomplish specific goals.
Leader
Manage care of individuals, families, and communities.
Manager
Work with or act as primary nurse to oversee care of specific caseload.
Case manager
Use research to improve client care.
Research consumer
Occupation that requires extensive education; special knowledge, skill, and preparation.
Profession
Professional character, spirit, and methods.
Professionalism
Process of becoming professional.
Professionalization
Hospital diploma, associate degree, baccalaureate degree, master’s degrer, and doctoral degree
Specialized education
Nursing conceptual frameworks
Body of knowledge
Altruism and service to others.
Service orientation
Contemporary practice-related issues.
Ongoing research
Integrity. Members expected to do what is considered as right regardless of personal cost.
Code of ethics.
Self regulating. Independence at work.
Autonomy
Governance
Professional organization
Nursing theory that focuses on undersranding different cultures in order to function.
Culture care diversity and universality (Leininger)
Caring is contextual, influenced by organizational structure.
Theory of Bureaucratic Caring (Ray)
All individuals are caring and develop caring abilities by being true to self, being real, and being who they truly are.
Caring, the human mode of being (Roach)
Know people and nurture them.
Nursing as caring (boykin and schoenhofer)
Each person seeks harmony within mind, body, and soul.
Theory of human care (watson)
One feels a personal sense of commitment to a valued “other”
Theory of caring (swanson)
From factual, observable phenomena to the theoretical analysis.
Empirical knowing
The therapeutic use of self and promote wholeness.
Personal knowing
The moral comportment. Beyond observing code of ethics.
Ethical knowing
The art of nursing. Expressed by individual nurse’s creativity.
Aesthetic knowing
Methods required for one pattern cannot be used to develop knowledge within another pattern.
Developing ways of knowing
Critical nursing skill used to gather data, teach, and persuade, express caring and comfort.
Communication
A person or group who wishes to communicate a message to another.
Sender
The message itself. What is said or actually written.
Message
The one who decodes the message.
Receiver
Message that the receiver returns to the sender.
Feedback
Obtain information before first face-to-face meeting: Name, address, age, medical history, and/or social history
Preinteraction Phase
Sets tone for rest of the relationship, develop trust and security, getting to know each other.
Introductory phase
View each other as unique individuals. Exploring and understanding thoughts and feelings.
Working phase
Nurse and client accept feelings of loss. Client accepts the end of relationship without feelings of anxiety or dependence.
Termination phase.
Each individual is unique
Concept of individuality
Explores how one area of concern relates to the whole person. Concerned with individual as a whole, not an assembly of parts or systems.
Concept of holism
Counteract conditions that are abnormal for the person
Compensatory mechanism
Set of interacting, identifiable parts.
System
Real or imaginary line that differentiates one system from another system.
Boundary
Does not exchange energy, matter, or information with the environment.
Closed system
Sharing across boundaries
Open system
Information, material, or energy that enters the system.
Input
After input, processed in a way useful to humans.
Throughput
Energy, matter, information given out by system as a result of its processes.
Output
Interventioms to maintain or regain homeostasis
Positive and negative feedback
Inhibita change.
Negative feedback
Stimulates change
Positive feedback
Person does not think about changing behavior in the next 6 months.
Precontemplation stage
Person acknowledges having a problem. Verbalization of plans to change behavior in the near future.
Contemplation stage
Person intends to take action in the immediate future.
Preparation stage
Person actively implements behavioral, cognitive strategies of action plan.
Action stage
Person strives to prevent relapse. Estimated to last 6 months to 5 years.
Maintenance stage
Point at which individual has complete confidence that problem no longer a temptation or threat.
Termination stage
