Levine Flashcards
An ongoing process of change in which patient maintains his integrity within the realities of environment
Achieved through the “frugal, economic, contained and controlled use of environmental resources by individual in his or her best interest”
Adaptation
Exist when the interaction or constant adaptations to the environment permits the assurance of integrity
Promoted by use of conservation principle
Wholeness
The product of adaptation
“Keeping together “of the life systems or the wholeness of the individual
Achieving a balance of energy supply and demand that is with in the unique biological realities of the individual
Conservation
A holistic being who constantly strives to preserve wholeness and integrity
A unique individual in unity and integrity, feeling, believing, thinking and whole system of system
Person
o A state of energy sparing that also provide the necessary baselines for a multitude of synchronized physiological and psychological factors
Homeostasis
o Describe the pattern of adaptation, which permit the individual’s body to sustain its well being with the vast changes which encroach upon it from the environment
• A stabilized flow rather than a static state
Homeorrhesis
o Aspect of the world that individual are able to intercept
Preconceptual
o Elements that may physically affects individuals but not perceived by hem: radiation, micro-organism and pollution
Operational
o Part of person’s environment including cultural patterns characterized by spiritual existence, ideas, values, beliefs and tradition
Conceptual
Adaptations are grounded in history and await the challenges to which they respond
Historicity
Individual responses and their adaptive pattern varies on the base of specific genetic structure
Specificity
Safe and fail options available to the individual to ensure continued adaptation
Redundancy
A change in behavior of an individual during an attempt to adapt to the environment
Help individual to protect and maintain their integrity
Organismic response
An instantaneous response to real or imagined threat, most primitive response
Flight or fight
response intended to provide for structural integrity and the promotion of healing
Inflammatory
Response developed over time and influenced by each stressful experience encountered by person
Stress
Involves gathering information from the environment and converting it in to a meaning experience
Perceptual
Refers to balancing energy input and output to avoid excessive fatigue
includes adequate rest, nutrition and exercise
Example:
Availability of adequate rest
Maintenance of adequate nutrition
Conversation of energy
Refers to maintaining or restoring the structure of body preventing physical breakdown And promoting healing
Example:
Assist patient in ROM exercise
Maintenance of patient’s personal hygiene
Conservation of structural integrity
Recognizes the individual as one who strives for recognition, respect, self awareness, selfhood and self determination
Example:
Recognize and protect patient’s space needs
Conservation of personal integrity
An individual is recognized as some one who resides with in a family, a community ,a religious group, an ethnic group, a political system and a nation
Example:
Position patient in bed to foster social interaction with other patients
Avoid sensory deprivation
Promote patient’s use of newspapers, magazines,radio, TV
Provide support and assistance to family
Conservation of social integrity
is a wholeness and successful adaptation. It is return to daily activities, selfhood and the ability of the individual to pursue once more his or her own interest without constraints
Health
It is unregulated and undisciplined change and must be stopped or death will ensue
Disease
is a profession as well as an academic discipline, always practiced and studied in concert with all of the disciplines that together from the health sciences.
Nursing
Untested, speculative theory that redefined aging and everything else that has to do with human life
Theory of redundancy
To seek a way of organizing nursing interventions out of the biological realities which the nurse has to confront
Facilitate healing through natural response to disease
Provide support for a failing auto regulatory portion of the integrated system
Restore individual integrity and well being
Theory of therapeutic intention
