ISoN, SBN Approach, Professional Practice Flashcards
What is a metaparadigm?
Global concepts that identify the phenomena or central interests to the discipline, the description of these concepts and the relations between these concepts
What are the four central concepts of the nursing metaparadigm, identified by Jacqueline Fawcett?
Nursing, Person, Environment, and Health
How does the nursing metaparadigm help us in our practice?
It guides us in our practice (assessment, intervention, evaluation of nursing care, research) and provides us with a language (common nursing terminology) to communicate with other health professionals. It enhances professional identity.
What is the difference between Virgina’s and Callista Roy’s conceptual models of the nursing metaparadigm?
Callista Roy’s definition is about adaptation.
True or false. There are many nursing metaparadigms and many nursing theories/conceptual models/approaches.
False. There is only one nursing metaparadigm (the rest is true)
What is the difference between the science and the art of nursing?
The science of nursing consists of theories, evidence-informed knowledge, research, and clinical guidelines and practices
The art of nursing relates to human interactions and relationships, caring, and is harder to be taught.
What is ISoN’s mission?
Educate current and future nurses, advance the art and science of nursing, and optimize health and health equity through academic excellence, strengths-based nursing, and innovation.
What are the underlying assumptions of the McGill Model of Nursing?
Health of a nation is its most valuable resource
Everyone aspires and is motivated toward better heatlh
Health is best learned by personal discovery and active participation
What are key concepts of the McGill Model of Nursing?
Health promotion
Family minded
Strengths-Based Nursing
Collaborative approach
What is a health promotion? What does it do?
Increasing people’s control over their own health with health education, nutrition, sanitation, advocacy, community participation, and prevention. This helps them understand the determinants of health and develop skills to improve and maintain their own health.
What are things that we have done for health promotion (Ottawa Charter)?
Build healthy public policy (unemployed insurance, child daycare)
Create supportive environments (living and working conditions)
Strengthen community action (self-help and social support)
Develop personal skills (learn throughout life)
Reorient health services (shared responsabilities)
The strengths-based nursing approach considers the whole person, as it focuses on…
What is working/functioning
What the person does well/best
Resources available to the person
What are the four pillars of the SBN approach?
Person/Family-centered care
Empowerment
Relational care
Innate health and healing
Briefly describe what is Person/Family-centered care (pillar of SBN).
Considering the patient’s preferences, needs and values, and ensuring their values guide all clinical decisions.
Briefly describe what is Empowerment (pillar of SBN).
Working with the patient’s existing and potential strengths, and helping them have more control over their health and attain their health goals
Briefly describe what is Relational care (pillar of SBN).
Nurse-patient relationship is crucial for health promotion and the healing process, and is powerful and long-lasting
Briefly describe what is Innate health and healing (pillar of SBN).
For example, the abilities to form relationships, regulate emotions, be curious, and seek for novelty.
They develop over a lifespan and help individual adapt, develop, and cope with adversity.
Nurses create conditions for optimal health and healing, and refer to these innate capacities as the person’s inner strengths.
What are the 8 core values of Strenghts-Based Nursing? Hint : HELPED US
Health and healing
Embodiment and holism
Learning, readiness, and timing
Partnership (collaborative)
Environment (and person are integral)
Determination (self)
Uniqueness
Subjective/objective reality and created meaning
How do the values of SBN guide a nurse’s practice?
How we engage with patient/family
What we choose to explore with patient/family
What questions we want to ask patient/family
Briefly describe Health and healing (SBN value).
Health is not the absence of illness
Health is a state of balance in well-being, and healing happens when they are not in a state of equilibrium.
Promote health and healing and alleviate suffering.
Briefly describe Embodiment and holism (SBN value).
Patient’s understanding of their condition and how they are dealing with it
Mind-body connection
Briefly describe Learning, readiness, and timing (SBN value).
Desire to change and take action to change, in order for an intervention to be successful
Briefly describe Collaborative partneship (SBN value).
Nurse and patient both involved in health and healing, and learn from each other
Briefly describe Person and environment are integral (SBN value).
Internal, relational, physical, cultural environments
People thrive when there’s a good fit between them and the environment
Briefly describe Self-determination (SBN value).
Value their choices
Decisions are best made when they are well-informed
Creating conditions to help them make their own decisions
Briefly describe Uniqueness (SBN value).
Knowing the patient, being curious (coping mechanisms, concerns)
Identifying strengths and weaknesses
Briefly describe Subjective/objective reality and created meaning (SBN value).
Know their understanding of their situation, how it affects their actions and responses
What is the difference between collaboration and cooperation?
Cooperation is working together in a helpful way. Collaboration requires cooperation, but also assertiveness and active involvement.
What are the essential ingredients for a collaborative partnership? Briefly describe each of them.
Sharing power : heart of the collaborative partnership
Open and respectful : willingness to develop a relationship, honouring differences and finding a common ground to manage them, value and respect the other
Being non-judgmental and accepting : tolerance, understanding the other’s perspective
Living with ambiguity : tolerating uncertainty, being flexible and adaptable
Being self-aware and reflective : self-awareness and awareness of the other (dynamics) through reflection
What are benefits of building a therapeutic relationship?
Showing that you care makes the individual more likely to engage and connect with you.
Easier to promote health, help them deal with suffering and recover from insults, and facilitate self-healing.
Requires empathy
What are the 3 elements to building a connection with a patient?
Mutual attentiveness (listen to their concerns and communicate understanding)
Positivity (focus on strengths)
Coordination (tailoring your response)
What are 3 skills that are essential for effective communication?
Attunement and awareness
Authentic presence
Attentive listening
How can we set interpersonal boundaries?
Focusing on person/family and putting their needs before our own
Thinking about the choice of words
Being self-aware
Avoiding disclosing personal info
What is the difference between doing and being in the nursing practice?
“Doing” is about the task and procedures, and is visible and measurable.
“Being” refers to the way a nurse is with the person/family, committing to and caring for another (compassion, respect, dignity)