Exam 6 Flashcards
Caring is Primary Model
Benner and Wrubel
Essence of excellent nursing practice is caring. Caring is the framework. Caring facilitates knowing the patient and individualizing care.
Benner and Wrubel- Caring is Primary
A universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another
Caring
Describes the concept of care as the essence and central, unifying, and dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines .
Leininger- Transcultural Caring
Stresses the importance of nurses’ understanding cultural caring behaviors.
Transcultural Caring (Leininger)
Transpersonal Caring
Leininger
A high quality of human interaction from nurses. A conscious intention to care promotes healing and wholeness. Care before cure. Deeper sources of inner healing.
Watson’s Transpersonal Caring
Transpersonal Caring
Watson
Connection forms between the one cared and the one caring. A transformative model because the relationship influences nurse and patient (for better or worse)
Watsons Transpersonal Caring
Defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility. Includes care-based counseling.
Swanson’s Theory of Caring
Categories of Caring in Swanson’s Theory of Caring
Knowing Being with Doing for Enabling Maintaining Belief
Striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other
Knowing
Being emotionally present to the other
Being with
Doing for the other as he or she would do for self if it were at all possible
Doing for
Facilitating the other’s passage through life transitions (Birth, death) and unfamiliar events
Enabling
Sustaining faith in the other’s capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning
Maintaining belief
Measures caring from a patient’s perspective. A tool that helps you appreciate the types of behaviors that hospitalized patients identify as caring.
CAT- Caring Assessment Tool
Concerned with relationships between people and with a nurse’s character and attitude towards others.
Ethic of Care
Places the nurse as the patient’s advocate, solving ethical dilemmas by attending to relationships and by giving priority to each patient’s unique personhood.
Ethic of Care
Caring Behaviors
Providing Presence Touch Listening Knowing the patient Spiritual caring Relieving pain and suffering Family care
Not only physical presence but communication and understanding
Being there
A nurse being available at a patient’s disposal
Being with
Three types of touch
Task-oriented touch
Caring touch
Protective touch
Holding a patient’s hand is….
Caring touch
Helping a patient fall is….
Protective touch
Inserting a catheter is…
Task-oriented touch
A planned and deliberate act in which you are present and engaging the patient in a nonjudgemental and accepting manner.
LIstening
Comprises of both the nurses’ understanding of a specific patient and his or her subsequent selection of interventions
Knowing the patient
Encompasses caring nursing actions that give a patient comfort, dignity, respect, and peace
Relieving pain and suffering
Starts with the diagnosis of cancer.
Acute Survival
Patient goes into remission or has ended the basic, rigorous course of treatment and enters a phase of watchful waiting
Extended survival
Roughly equated with “cure” but the experience permanently affects survivor.
Permanent survival
Problems with employment and insurance are common in…
Permanent survival
Fear and anxiety are common in…..
Acute survival
Weakness, fatigue, pain, nausea, reduced activity tolerance, hair loss are common in…
Acute survival
Dealing with cancer in the home, community and workplace ….
extended survival
Physical well-being and symptoms of cancer survivors
Impaired mood Anxiety Depression Affects enjoyment/leisure Cognition/attention Distress over diagnosis and treatment
Late effects include: pain, psychosocial distress, impaired wound healing
Any surgical procedure
Late effects include: Impaired cognitive function, motor sensory alterations, altered vision, swallowing, language, bowel and bladder control
Surgery involving brain/spinal cord
Late effects include: difficulties with communication, swallowing, and breathing
Head and neck surgery
Late effects include: Risk of intestinal obstruction, hernia, altered bowel function
Abdominal surgery
Late effects include: Difficulty breathing, fatigue, generalized weakness
Lung resection
Late effects include: Urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, poor body image
Prostatectomy
Late effects include: Osteoporosis, heart failure, diabetes, amenorrhea, sterility, impaired GI motility, abnormal liver function, impaired immune function, paresthesias, hearing loss and problems with thinking and memory
Late effects of chemotherapy and/or radiation