Conceptual Flashcards
Set of interrelated parts, where each part is necessary to the whole.
Systems theory (Von bertalanffy)
Major nursing concepts include what three things?
Person
Environment
Health
Component parts to a system include?
Input Throughout Output Evaluation Feedback. (Nursing process)
Promotes exchange of matter, energy and information with other systems and environment
Open system
No interaction with other system of environment.
Closed system.
Maslow organized human needs into what five level hierarchy
Level 1. Those needs that ensure survival Level 2. Safety and security issues Level 3. Needs for love and belonging Level 4. Self-esteem needs Level 5. Self actualization.
Family. Cultural. Social. Community. All effect what?
Individual well being.
Health is a state of complete physical mental and social well being and not just absence of disease
World health organization. (Un achievable. Ideal)
Rosenstock health beliefs model has three components.
- Evaluation of vulnerability to a condition
- How effective health behavior might be.
- Presence of trigger event
Health behaviors include?
Choices and habitual actions that promote or diminish health.
What does an open system integrate?
Person environment health.
Three categories of beliefs are;
Descriptive or existential beliefs
Evaluation beliefs
Prescriptive (encouraged) and proscriptive (prohibited)
Represents intellectual acceptance of something as true or correct.
Beliefs
Organized beliefs that serve as a guide
Belief system
Freely chosen principals, ideals held by an individual that give meaning and direction to life. Abstract representation of what is right and wrong.
Values. (Values are abstract)
Most observable human behaviors are manifestations of what?
Human values.
People with clear values tend to have what three things in daily life?
Effective direction
Persistence
Decision making skills.
The study of principles underlying conduct, thought and nature of universe. Search for meaning in universe.
Philosophy.
Serves as blueprints or guide and incorporate nurses values and belief system.
Philosophies.
What are six branches of philosophy that influence nursing?
Epistemology (study of theory of knowledge itself) Logic Aesthetics Ethics Politics Metaphysics
Philosophies of nursing are statements that are used as bases for thinking and acting. They are based on?
Beliefs about nursing
Expressions if values.
Nursing profession combines what two sources of nursing philosophy?
Individual philosophies
Collective philosophies
Developed by schools if nursing, hospitals, medical systems and nursing organizations.
Collective philosophies.
