Final Review Flashcards
(31 cards)
goal of nursing
to restore, advance, and maintain the health of individuals and communities
roles of nurses
clinician educator advocate communicator leader professional change agent collaborator coordinator scholar
professionalism in nursing
- responsibility for clinical knowledge throughout career
- supports peers
- represents profession to public
- critical thinkers
- make socially significant contribution through theory-based practice
- involved in professional associations
- represents all parts of society
- ensures safe practice and care
- upholds values in daily practice
- demonstrates confidence, respect, accountability, inter-disciplinary collaboration
what does the public seek advice from RN’s for?
- self-care
- post- op care
- OTC health care products
- administration of prescription drugs
- interpreting info provided by doctor
strength- based nursing
- focusing on strengths of patients/ families when caring for them
- gives patients more opportunities to take control of health and healing
- focusing and taking advantage of inner and outer strengths and what patients do that helps them cope with their illness
- patient-centered care approach
College of Nurses in Ontario (CNO)
- protects public
- monitors professional conduct and licenses nurses
- their responsibility is to ensure that practice is safe, competent, ethical
CNO code of conduct
- nurses respect the dignity of patients and treat them as individuals
- nurses maintain public trust by providing safe and competent care
- nurses work w colleagues to meet patient needs
- nurses act w/ integrity
- nurses work together to promote patient well-being
Registered Nurses Association Ontario (RNAO)
- represents RNs, NPs, BScN students
- advocate for healthy public policy
- promote excellence in nursing practice
- influence decisions that affect public and nurses
Ontario Nurses Association (ONA)
union that represents RNs
International Council of Nurses (ICN)
- works to ensure quality care and sound health policies globally
- CNA is member
PHIPA (2004)
- personal health information protection act
- regulates the collection, use, and disclosure of personal health info
Bill 199, Health Information Protection Act (2006)
introduced to better protect privacy and ensure people who engage in privacy breaches are held accountable due to increasing number of privacy breaches bc there is an easier access to healthcare records
meta- paradigm of nursing
includes person, health, environment, and nursing
knowing
form of knowledge gained through experience & shaped by the unique perspective of the indiviual
Carper’s Patterns of Knowing
refers to 5 different areas that apply to knowing your patient
Empirical knowing
science of nursing
- empirical, factual, descripitive
- aimed at developing explanation
- what guided your actions?
- what guided your assessment, approach, intervention?
Ethical knowing
moral aspect of nursing
- is it right?
- is it responsible?
- do your actions match your belifs and values?
- involves clarifiying values (whether they’re conflicting or not) and exploring alternatives if they are
Personal knowing
involves therapeutic use of self
- understanding your own biases, stenghts, and challenges
- reject approaching the patient as an object and try to form an authentic relationship with them
- am I developing an authenthic relationship with my client?
- how do my own belifs/ values influence my relationship with the patient?
Aesthetic knowing
art of nursing
- anaylzing patients behaviour to determine what is important about it and what need is being expressed by it
- understanding the perspective of another person
- delivery of nursing science through actions & attitudes
Emancipatory knowing
awarness & critical refliction that leads to actions that reduce/ eliminate inequalities and injustice
- why is this happening?
- is this equitable?
- what needs to be changed?
- continually noticing what is happening in practice and changing actions to shift practice in a more equitable direction
- critically reflect on political, social, cultural aspects of care
William Perry’s Scheme of Intellectual & Ethical Development
outlines 4 different ways people think
dualism/ received knowledge
black and white thinkers
-right or wrong
multiplicity/ subjective knowing
everything is grey
- all opinions are ok
- how can teachers evaluate my work if its a matter of opinion?
relativism/ procedural knowing
- everything has context
- learning means we know that facts/data are essential but need ti be looked at through varying perspectives
