Exam 2 Prep Flashcards
Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others.
caring
The ability to accept patient beliefs and attitudes despite the nurses personal feelings about them. Learn to separate personal reactions from the situation.
unconditional positive regard
One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, the awareness of one’s relationship to others, sharing their joys, sorrows, pain, and accomplishments. Participation in the experience of another.
compassion
One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, having knowledge, judgment, skills, energy, experience, and motivation to respond adequately to others with in the demands of professional responsibilities.
competence
One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, the quality that fosters trusting relationships. Comfort with self, client, and family.
confidence
One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, morals, ethics, and an informed sense of right and wrong. Awareness of personal responsibility. This also is related to accountability.
conscience
One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, convergence between one’s desires and obligations and the deliberate choice to act in accordance with them.
commitment
One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, appropriate demeanor, dress, and language, that are in harmony with a caring presence. Presenting oneself as someone who respects others and in turn demands respect.
comportment
Being available with the wholeness of one’s being.
presence
What are some advantages of establishing presence with a client?
it helps calm anxiety, it allows the nurse to advocate, the nurse can coach the client with reassurance, the client trusts putting their feelings into words and expressing needs.
What is the intention for task-oriented type of touch?
competently completing a procedure in a caring manner
What is the intention for a comfort or caring touch?
support, interest, unconditional acceptance
What is the intention of protective touch?
safety - think of preventing a fall or an immediate risk
What is the intention of sexual touch?
arousal or sensual pleasure
An approach to care that uses the client’s unique personal preferences and needs to customize their healthcare.
person centered care
Name two theorists who support the idea of patient centered care.
Leininger and Watson
Your judgment and attitudes about yourself.
self-concept
The active process of learning about the components of yourself.
self-awareness
What are the 5 levels of Maslow’s hierarchy in order, top to bottom.
self actualization, self-esteem, love and belonging, safety and security, physiological needs
The way an individual experiences the world through seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling and/or proprioception.
sensory perception
The agent or act that stimulates the nerve receptor.
stimulus
A nerve cell that acts by converting the stimulus to a nerve impulse.
receptor
The travel of nerve impulse along nerve pathway to spinal cord or directly to the brain.
impulse conduction
Awareness and intepretation of stimuli.
perception
A deficit in the normal function of sensory reception and perception.
sensory deficits
Inadequate quality or quantity of stimulation.
sensory deprivation
Reception of multiple sensory stimuli.
sensory overload
A loss of center vision.
macular degeneration
A loss of peripheral vision.
glaucoma
Vision becomes fuzzy.
cataracts
A type of hearing impairment where there is a reduced ability of sound conduction.
conductive hearing impairment
A type of hearing impairment where there is damage to inner ear or nerve pathway.
sensorineural hearing impairment
The loss of ability to interpret language within the brain.
central hearing impairment
Any positive and/or negative actions taken by persons that affect their state of well-being and level of function.
health behaviors
