LEVINE Flashcards
Major concept
1)conservation;
2)adaptation;
3)wholeness.
is the keeping together of the life system.
Conservation
refers to balancing energy input and output to excessive fatigue. Includes adequate rest, nutrition and exercise
Conservation of energy
refers to maintaining or restoring the structure of the body preventing physical breakdown and promoting healing
Conservation of structural integrity
recognizes the individual as one who strives for recognition, respect, self-awareness, self-determination
Conservation of personal integrity
an individual is recognized as one who has family and friends, community, workplace and school, religion, personal choices, political system, cultural ethnic heritage & nation
Conservation of social integrity
is achieved through the frugal, economic, contained, and controlled use of environmental resources by the individual on his or her best interest
Adaptation
Adaptation is a historical process, responses are based on past experiences, both personal and genetic
Historicity
Adaptation is also specific. Each system has very specific responses. The physiologic responses that “defend oxygen supply to the brain are distinct from those that maintain the appropriate blood glucose levels.”
Specificity
Although the changes that occur are sequential, they should not be viewed as linear. Rather, Levine describes them as occurring in “cascades” in which there is an interacting and evolving effect in which one sequence is not yet completed when the next begins.
Redundancy
exist when the interaction or constant adaptation to the environment permits the assurance of integrity
Wholeness
combines the physiological and pathophysiological aspects of the individual and is constantly challenged by the external environment.
Internal environment
individual respond with their sense organs
Perceptual environment
physically affect the individual but not perceived by the latter
Operational environment
