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What is the definition of Health?
“Health is state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
What is the definition of Well-being?
“encompasses a quality of life and the ability for people and societies to contribute to the world with a sense of meaning and purpose”
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Self-actualization, esteem, love and belonging, safety needs, and physiological needs.
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, what does self-actualization mean?
Disere to become the most that one can be.
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, what does Esteem mean?
Respect, self-esteem, status, recognition, strength and freedom.
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, what does loving and belonging mean?
Friendship, intimacy, family, and sense of connection.
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, what does safety needs mean?
Personal safety, employment, resources, health and property
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, what does physiological needs mean?
Air, water, food, shelter, sleep, clothing and reproductive
Four cornerstones Model of Health
Te Whare Tapa Whā
What is Te Whare Tapa Whā (Four cornerstones Model of Health)
A holistic Model where optimal health is achieved when all 4 components are balanced
Te Whare Tapa Whā- Physical name
Te taha tinana
Te Whare Tapa Whā- Psychological
Te taha hinengaro
Te Whare Tapa Whā- Spiritual
Te taha wairua
Te Whare Tapa Whā- (Family/social)
Te taha whānau
What is the Fonofale Model?
Developed by Fuimaono Karl Pulotu-Endemann
Built around the image of the Samoan fale (house)
Bult from culture, physical, spiritual, mental, family and other.
The health-illness continuum
Health is a constantly changing state moving along a continuum between high level wellness and death. People adapt to changes in their environments to maintain wellbeing.
Disease
A medical term where there is a pathological change in the structure or functioning of the body/ mind.
Illness
The unique response of the person to the disease where their level of functioning has changed when compared to their previous level of functioning.
Illness can be classified as Acute (time limited) Chronic (ongoing, no clear end).
Effects of illness on whānau
Role changes, Stress, Lifelong alterations in roles or lifestyle, Financial stress, Decreased social interactions, Social isolation.
What is personhood?
Personhood is essentially whats makes us us. All the elements in a person’s life that assemble your individual person.
Who we are as a human, what makes us who we are, our likes/dislikes, our experiences, challenges, what’s important to us and what threatens us.
What is person-centredness?
Demonstration of respect for personhood through words and actions of the nurse. Developed through the therapeutic relationship.
Whats a therapeutic relationship?
Therapeutic relationship is when the relationship built between the nurse and the care-recipient is used to promote or restore the wellbeing of the person.
What are the aims of nursing and midwifery
Nursing and midwifery have similarities in their practices with the underlying focus of person-centred care.
Both occupations require levels of physical, emotional, cultural, social and spiritual knowledge.
The care is not limited to the restoration of physical health but all the areas of life that have been affected by illness, etc.
What are the differences between nursing and midwifery?
Nurses care for all humans with differing social classes, race, genders, ages focusing on the prevention of illness and promotion of of health maintenance.
Whereas midwifes entirely focus the birthing process of biological women and the aftercare of newly born infants