Concept Of Nursing Flashcards

1
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Assist client physically and psychologically while preserving client’s dignity.

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Caregiver

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2
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Identify client problems and communicate them to other members of the health care team.

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Communicator

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3
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Help clients learn about health and health care procedures to restore or maintain health.

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Teacher

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4
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Represent, protect the client’s needs and wishes.

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Client advocate

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5
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Help client to recognize and cope with stressful psychological or social problems, develop improved relationships, and promote personal growth.

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Counselor

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6
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Assist clients to make modifications in behavior.

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Change agent

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7
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Influence others to work together to accomplish specific goals.

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Leader

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8
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Manage care of individuals, families, and communities.

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Manager

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9
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Work with or act as primary nurse to oversee care of specific caseload.

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Case manager

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10
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Use research to improve client care.

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Research consumer

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11
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Occupation that requires extensive education; special knowledge, skill, and preparation.

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Profession

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12
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Professional character, spirit, and methods.

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Professionalism

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13
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Process of becoming professional.

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Professionalization

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14
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Hospital diploma, associate degree, baccalaureate degree, master’s degrer, and doctoral degree

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Specialized education

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15
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Nursing conceptual frameworks

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Body of knowledge

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16
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Altruism and service to others.

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Service orientation

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17
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Contemporary practice-related issues.

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Ongoing research

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18
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Integrity. Members expected to do what is considered as right regardless of personal cost.

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Code of ethics.

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19
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Self regulating. Independence at work.

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Autonomy

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20
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Governance

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Professional organization

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21
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Nursing theory that focuses on undersranding different cultures in order to function.

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Culture care diversity and universality (Leininger)

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22
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Caring is contextual, influenced by organizational structure.

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Theory of Bureaucratic Caring (Ray)

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23
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All individuals are caring and develop caring abilities by being true to self, being real, and being who they truly are.

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Caring, the human mode of being (Roach)

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24
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Know people and nurture them.

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Nursing as caring (boykin and schoenhofer)

25
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Each person seeks harmony within mind, body, and soul.

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Theory of human care (watson)

26
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One feels a personal sense of commitment to a valued “other”

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Theory of caring (swanson)

27
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From factual, observable phenomena to the theoretical analysis.

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Empirical knowing

28
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The therapeutic use of self and promote wholeness.

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Personal knowing

29
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The moral comportment. Beyond observing code of ethics.

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Ethical knowing

30
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The art of nursing. Expressed by individual nurse’s creativity.

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Aesthetic knowing

31
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Methods required for one pattern cannot be used to develop knowledge within another pattern.

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Developing ways of knowing

32
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Critical nursing skill used to gather data, teach, and persuade, express caring and comfort.

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Communication

33
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A person or group who wishes to communicate a message to another.

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Sender

34
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The message itself. What is said or actually written.

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Message

35
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The one who decodes the message.

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Receiver

36
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Message that the receiver returns to the sender.

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Feedback

37
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Obtain information before first face-to-face meeting: Name, address, age, medical history, and/or social history

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Preinteraction Phase

38
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Sets tone for rest of the relationship, develop trust and security, getting to know each other.

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Introductory phase

39
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View each other as unique individuals. Exploring and understanding thoughts and feelings.

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Working phase

40
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Nurse and client accept feelings of loss. Client accepts the end of relationship without feelings of anxiety or dependence.

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Termination phase.

41
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Each individual is unique

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Concept of individuality

42
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Explores how one area of concern relates to the whole person. Concerned with individual as a whole, not an assembly of parts or systems.

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Concept of holism

43
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Counteract conditions that are abnormal for the person

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Compensatory mechanism

44
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Set of interacting, identifiable parts.

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System

45
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Real or imaginary line that differentiates one system from another system.

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Boundary

46
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Does not exchange energy, matter, or information with the environment.

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Closed system

47
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Sharing across boundaries

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Open system

48
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Information, material, or energy that enters the system.

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Input

49
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After input, processed in a way useful to humans.

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Throughput

50
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Energy, matter, information given out by system as a result of its processes.

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Output

51
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Interventioms to maintain or regain homeostasis

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Positive and negative feedback

52
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Inhibita change.

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Negative feedback

53
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Stimulates change

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Positive feedback

54
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Person does not think about changing behavior in the next 6 months.

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Precontemplation stage

55
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Person acknowledges having a problem. Verbalization of plans to change behavior in the near future.

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Contemplation stage

56
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Person intends to take action in the immediate future.

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Preparation stage

57
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Person actively implements behavioral, cognitive strategies of action plan.

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Action stage

58
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Person strives to prevent relapse. Estimated to last 6 months to 5 years.

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Maintenance stage

59
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Point at which individual has complete confidence that problem no longer a temptation or threat.

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Termination stage