Final Flashcards
Florence Nightingale
- environmental theory
- badly constructed houses/ hospitals and stagnant air contribute to illness
- patients who breathed their own sick air would become or remain sick
- temperature should he controlled and comfortable
- patients needed light
- noise was cruel and irritating to the patient
- activities to relieve the sick of Boredom, rotation of decor in patients room
- personal cleanliness
- nutrition
Can be applied in nursing :
- cleanliness, provide good diet, pure water, data gathering
Virginia Henderson
- Nursing need theory
- patients self determination so the patient will continue doing well after begins released from the hospital
- fewer obstacles during recovery from being sick or injured
- nurses care for patients until they can care for themselves once again.
Patricia Benner
- theory is that a nurse develops skills and understanding over time and with practice
- Dreyfus model of skill acquisition:
- expert
- proficient
- competent
- advance beginner
- novice
Kristen Swanson
- theory of caring
- to help nurses deliver care that promotes the dignity, respect and empowerment
5 processes
1. Knowing ( striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other )
2. Being with ( being emotionally present to the other )
3. Doing for ( doing for the other as he/she would do for self if it were at all possible )
4. Enabling ( facilitating the others passage through life transitions and unfamiliar events )
5. Maintaining belief ( sustaining faith in the others capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning )
Barbara carper
- fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing
- formerly express nursing knowledge
- provide professional and discipline identity
- convey to others what nursing contributes to health care
- create expert and effective nursing practice
Hildegard pepleau
- theory of interpersonal relations
- 4 phases of interpersonal relations
- 7 nursing roles involved in interpersonal relations
Define values
Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment
Define morals
Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
Define ethics
- A theory or system of moral values
- if you accuse someone of being unethical, it is equivalent to calling them
unprofessional
7 fundamental ethical concepts
- autonomy ( the right to make independent decisions conceding ones own life and well being)
- beneficence ( promoting someone else’s good or welfare)
- truthfulness ( now in favour of openness and the disclosure of info to clients )
- confidentiality ( clients must be able to trust health professional to persevere confidentiality)
- justice ( decisions made at government and administrative levels )
- integrity ( health professional must maintain their individual and professional integrity at all times)
- non- malficence ( every culture has its own cultural collective definitions of ‘good’ and ‘evil’
Critical thinking what is it
- reasonable, reflective thinking focused on what to believe or do
- purposeful goal directed thinking
- purposeful, self regulatory judgment
Critical thinking what it isn’t
- common sense
- spontaneous responses
- disorganized
- task orientated
- being competitive
- emotion driven
How does critical thinking translate into nursing
- reflective, reasonable thinking about nursing problems without a single solution
- clinical decision making or diagnostics reasoning or professional judgment
- reflective practice
Why is it essential to be a critical thinker in nursing
- to manage complete dilemmas
- for empowerment and liberation
- to exchange empowerment and liberation
- for self actualization
Simone roach
6’s C
- care
- compassion
- competence
- communication
- courage
- commitment
Madeline leninger
Culture care theory
- Transcultural Nursing
Transcultural nursing is a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities (culture universal) and difference (culture-specific) across human groups (Leininger, 1991).