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Midterm Flashcards

Week 1-5

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A theory is

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Theory is a set of concepts, definitions, and propositions that projects a systematic view of phenomena by designating specific interrelationships among concepts for purposes of describing, explaining, predicating, and/or controlling phenomena.

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What’s the order of the Nursing Metaparadigm?
a) Grand theories, Practice-Level and Middle Range
b)Middle Range, Grand Theories, Practice-Level
c)Grand theories, Middle Range, Practice-Level

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c)

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What is Nursing?

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A professional discipline

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Disciplines Include…

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Networks of philosophies, theories, concepts and community of scholar share that make commitments to value, knowledge and proceses

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To develop a theory it involves…

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Viewing is from a lens. Determining components of concepts, inter-relationships of various elements & aspects along with circumstances under which they are presented. Requires both deductive and inductive reasoning.Enables us to more accurately define & develop the focus of our professional thinking (for us, nursing’s thinking)

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Paradigm is

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a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated

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Framework is based on

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Your own thinking/lens. It provides different views
(Referred to asConceptual Models or Grand Theory

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What’s the structure of Nursing Theories

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Metaparadigm, Paradigm, Grand Theories, Middle Range&Practice-Level

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Metaparadigm is

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The framework for nursing that sets forth phenomena of interest.
Very general
Intended to reflect agreement
Most abstract level of nursing knowledge
Closely mirrors nursing beliefs
Provides a context for developing nursing knowledge

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What are the four concepts of Metaparadigm?

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Person or human being
Environment
Health
Nursing

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The Environment(concepts) is

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Human beings’ significant others and physical surroundings as well as local, regional, national and worldwide cultural social, political, and economic conditions that are associated with human beings’ health. does it also include relational elements or concepts associated with milieu

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Conceptual Model/Grand Theories of Nursing is

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Sets of concepts and propositions that provide perspectives on the major concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing
Extra stuff
Reflect values and beliefs of the discipline.
Reflect research and practice approaches.
Provide direction for research.
Less abstract than philosophy
More abstract than theory

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Paradigm is

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Worldview or Shared Perspective
Extra
Reflects the differences within the shared beliefs
More than one paradigm can be accepted within a community
Generally a consensus is usually reached within the community

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Totality Paradigm is

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Known as health even though you are missing something
Humans are seen as integrated human beings with distinguishable dimension
Humans are described as adapting to their environments
Health & illness viewed as states along a continuum

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Simultaneity Paradigm is

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Humans seen as unitary (indivisible, unable to be broken down into separate components)
Humans, as irreducible wholes, viewed as inherently connected to the universe
Humans seen as exiting in continuous mutual process with environment (rather than adapting to environment)
You don’t have everything to be whole, you aren’t considered as whole

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Middle-Range Theory is

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Represent least abstract level of theory development
Derived from specific grand theory in nursing
May reflect the application of theory from another discipline to nursing
May involve testing of specific relationships identified in a grand theory
May focus on exploration of a concept of particular relevance to nursing (e.g. resilience)

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Practice Level is

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Hands on work that the nurses do with their patients
Pertinent to a specific range of nursing situations
Provides framework for nursing practice
Predicts outcomes and impact of nursing practice
Interrelated with concepts from middle-range theories

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Philosophy is

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Set of ideas/knowledge. The love of wisdom

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The 5 ways of knowing are

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Ethical, Personal, Empirical, Esthetic, emancipatory

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What equals praxis?

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Nursing Theory & Nursing Practice

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What is Nursing Praxis?

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refers to the reciprocal relationship of theory & practice

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What are the 3 dimensions of Nursing Praxis?

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Being
Knowing
Doing

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What’s the difference between knowing and knowledge?

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Knowledge is expressed in a way that can be shared with others and may be discipline-specific having met standards of a critique across the discipline.
Knowing is internal to the knower. It’s a range of experiences that are unique to the individual. It acquires personal reflection.

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Empirical knowing is

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Most familiar
How nurses come to know science of nursing
Knowing actual theories, concepts, and principles
It can be verified and tested

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Ethical Knowing is

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Knowing what’s right or wrong
Knowing the moral practice
Duty, rights and obligations
Guides Nursing practice
Essential in day to day nursing actions

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Aesthetic knowing is

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Cannot be taught
Through personal practice
Your intuition with the way your care for patients
Action based
Creative and imaginative use of nursing knowledge in practice
Nurses express their art of practice through interpretation and guiding use of various theories

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Personal knowing is

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Understanding the knowledge ourselves
Clients based relationship
First encounter with your patient
Creating and building that therapeutic relationship

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Emancipatory knowing is

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Bringing it all together
Taking a stand for what is right
Advocating for your patient
integrating knowing, doing, and being

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Florence Nightingale’s 5 components of environmental health are

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Pure air(proper ventilation)
Pure water
Efficient drainage
Cleanliness(Including bathing & hand washing)
Light

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Peplau’s Theory is based on

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Nurse-Patient Relationship

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What’s the orientation phase of Peplau’s theory?

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An individual has a perceived need and seeks professional assistance.
The nurse helps the patient recognize and understand his or her problem and collaboratively they determine his or her need for help.
Development of trust in the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship is central and the parameters of the relationship are negotiated.

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What’s the working phase of Peplau’s Theory?

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The patient identifies with those who can help him or her and attempts to derive full value from the available resources.
The nurse supports exploration of feelings to aid the patient.
The nurse facilitates development toward well-being through enactment of the roles of the nurse
Support the patient from the orientation phase
Patient is working towards independence

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What’s the resolution phase of Peplau’s Theory

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The patient gradually puts aside old goals and adopts new goals
Concurrently moves from dependence to independence

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Nursing Process includes

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Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation

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The three layers include

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Recognizing cues
Analyze Cues
Prioritize Hypothesis
Generates Solution
Take Action
Evaluate Outcomes

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Recognizing cues is

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Filtering information from different sources(Sign and symptoms)

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Analyze Cues is

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Linking and recognized cues to the client’s clinical presentation and establishing probable client needs, concerns or problems

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Prioritize Hypothesis is

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Evaluating and ranking hypothesis according to priority

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Generate solutions is

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Identifying expected outcomes and using hypotheses to define a set of interventions for the expected outcome

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Take Actions is

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Implementing the solution that addresses the highest prioritites

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Evaluate Outcomes is

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Comparing observed outcomes against expected outcomes

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Trauma Informed Care is

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Approach used for clients who have experienced trauma
Focus on client
Understanding behavioural response(s)
The traumatic experience is individualized and based on personal narrative
Realizing, Recognizing and responding, an intervention of approach focusing on how trauma can impact the behavioural response of a clients receiving treatment

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Short term Trauma is

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Event that happens
Event /experience resolves itself
No major impact to emotional, mental, physical well being

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Long Term Trauma is

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Major event occurring
Event /experience resolves itself
Can have minimal to major impact to emotional, mental, physical well being
Experience can cause triggers, eg. car accident, surgery

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Generational Trauma is

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Trauma that is passed down from generation to generation
Can be silent
Undefined
Covert

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Historical Trauma is

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Trauma based on a major event
ie residential schools, slavery, holocaust

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Trauma Informed Care Approach is

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Acknowledging the trauma
Recognize how the trauma is impacting the individual
Respond appropriately
Realizing the prevalance of the trauma.
Recognize how trauma affects all individuals within the system
Responding by putting knowledge to practice

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Leininger’s Theory is based on

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Cultural care diversity and universality

49
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Transcultural nursing was found by

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Leininger

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What’s Leiningr’s Theory?

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The Culture Care Diversity and Universality theory focuses on describing, explaining and predicting nursing similarities and differences focused primarily on human care and caring in human cultures
It does not focus on medical symptoms, disease entities or treatments
It focuses on methods of approach to care that means something to the people to whom the care is given

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Ethnonursing is

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a research method for describing, documenting, and explaining nursing care phenomena by the study of the beliefs, values, and practices concerning nursing care that belong to a specific culture, as reflected by the language, beliefs, and values of the members of that culture.

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What’s the metaparadigm concept of person?

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Humans are believed to be caring & capable of being concerned about the desires, welfare & continued existence of others. Human care is collective, meaning, seen in all cultures
Humans are universally caring beings who survive in a diversity of cultures through their ability to provide universality of care in a variety of ways according to differing cultures, needs and settings
Recipient of care, including physical, spiritual, psychological, and sociocultural components should refer to families, groups and communities

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What’s the metaparadigm concept of the environment

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Included events with meanings and interpretations given to them in particular physical, ecological, sociopolitical or cultural setting
Existing forces outside the organism and in the context of culture

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What’s the metaparadigm concepts of Health?

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A key concept in transcultural nursing due to weight on the need for nurses to have knowledge that is specific to the culture in which nursing is being practiced
It is acknowledged that health is seen as being universal across cultures but distinct within each culture in a way that represents the beliefs, values, and practices of the particular culture
Therefore, health is both universal and diverse
Not distinct to nursing as many disciplines use this term

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What’s the metaparadigm concept of Nursing?

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Care has the greatest meaning which explains nursing
Nurses must have sufficient preparation with a transcultural perspective in order to value & practice nursing
Developed 3 types of nursing actions that are culturally-based & consistent with the needs & values of the clients:
Cultural care preservation/maintenance
Cultural care accommodation/negotiation
Cultural care repatterning/restructuring

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The sunrise enabler is

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The conceptual guide to knowledge discovery

57
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What is caring?

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Sense of belonging
extra(Milton Mayeroff)
We can make order out of and bring meaning to life

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What are the 8 ingredients?

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knowledge, alternating rhythms, patience, honesty, trust, humility, hope & courage

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Leininger describes caring as?

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The central focus of nursing

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Watson describes Nursing as?

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The art science of caring

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The metaparadigm(person) concept for watson is

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: physical, psychological and spiritual; unique and free to make choices; cannot be seen without context or environment

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The metaparadigm(Health) concept for watson is

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as a subjective experience; harmony, or balance, within mind, body and spirit; related to the degree of congruence between the self as perceived and the self as experienced

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The metaparadigm(Nursing) concept for watson is

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a human science of person and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, Aesthetic, and ethical and ethical human care transactions.

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The metaparadigm(environment) concept for watson is

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family, culture, community, society, etc.; interconnectedness between the person and the environment

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Watson viewed caring science as

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Humanitarian
Human science focus on caring
The arts, humanities, and science
Relationship & connectedness
Acknowledges unity of all life
Reflective, subjective, and empirical
Grounded in nursing but includes other disciplines
Has relevance to all health, education, and human service fields and professions

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Caring moment/occasion is

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Caring moment happens with the nurse and the person to be nursed (patient) come together in their wholeness
Each brings his/her past, his/her present, and his/her possible future
Both nurse & patient bring consciousness & freedom to choose how they will be & what they will do within that moment, while connected at the spirit level

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Caring consciousness is

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The whole caring – healing- loving consciousness is contained within a single moment
One caring & one being cared for are interconnected; caring-healing process is connected with the other human(s) & with the higher energy of the universe
Caring-healing-loving consciousness of nurse is communicated to the one being cared for
Caring-healing-loving consciousness exists through & transcends time & space; can be dominant over physical dimensions

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What’s the transpersonal meaning from Watson on Nightgale?

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Said that Nightingale’s blueprint for transpersonal meanings and models of caring transcend history.
Caring “called forth the full use of self, connecting the divine within and without as a source of inspiration as well as the foundation for a professional code”.
Watson also said that Nightingale “made explicit the connections between and among all aspects of self, other, humanity, the environment, nature, and the cosmos as a means of learning, understanding, and connecting health, caring, and healing”.

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What are Intersectionality on Nursing care?

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Attributes that are Seen and Unseen.

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Intersectionality framework and praxis are

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Gender, Age, Sexuality, status, race

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What did Sister Callista Roy create?

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RAM and The Conceptual Model

72
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Totatality Paradigm is an exemplar of who’s theory?

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Sister Callista Roy

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What is the metaparadigm
(Nursing) for Callista?

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a healthcare profession that focuses on human life processes and patterns and emphasizes promotion of health for individuals, families, groups, and society as a whole.

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What is the metaparadigm
(Environment) for Callista?

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Serves as the input that any one person has as an adaptive system. Negative or positive stimuli all stem from the environment, whether those stimuli be blatant (focal), subconscious (contextual), or even unknown (residual)

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What is the metaparadigm
(Person) for Callista?

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holistic, adaptive systems made of many parts with internal processes acting to maintain adaptation in the four adaptive modes

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What is the metaparadigm
(Health) for Callista?

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supported by adaptive responses; defined as a state and a process of being and becoming integrated and whole

77
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What are the care concepts?

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Coping and Adaptation

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Adaptation is

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Process and outcome by which thinking and feeling are used in conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration

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Coping is

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Coping processes act to maintain adaptation and promote person and environment transformations

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Implicit Assumptions are***

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People that are a bio-psycho-social beings.
A person uses innate and acquired mechanisms(biological, psychological, and social) to cope with a changing world
Person must adapt in order to respond positively to environment

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What are the 4 modes of adaptation?

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Physiologic needs, self-concept, role function and interdependence

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Explicit assumptions are

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Person that can be reduced to parts for study and care.
Nursing is based on causality
Values and opinions should be considered and respected
Adaptation frees energy that can be used to respond to other stimuli

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What are the three concepts include in RAM’s model

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Environmental stimuli, coping processes and Models of Adaptation

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What’s the definition of the environment according to Roy?

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All the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the development and behavior or individuals and groups

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What are the three factors of environmental stimuli?

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Focal, Contextual and Residual

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What is focal?

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Factors immediately affecting the person

87
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What is Contextual?

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All other stimuli affecting situation

88
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What is the residual?

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Factors whose effect are unclear

89
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the three levels of adaptation are

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Integrated adaptation, compensatory adaptation and compromised adaptation

90
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Integrated adaptation is

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Structures and functions of the adaptive modes are working together and meets human needs

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Compensatory adaptation is

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When the cognator and regular or stabilizer and innovator are activated by a challenge

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Compromised adaptation is

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When integrated and compensatory processes are inadequate, creating an adaptation problem.

93
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What are the subsystems of coping

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Regulator-cognator (A person)
Stabilizer-Innovator (A group)

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What’s a regulator subsystem?

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Uses physiologic process such a chemical, neurologic, and endocrine response to cope with the changing environment

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what’s a cognator subsystem?

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It involves the cognitive and emotional process that interacts with the environment

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What’s the stabilizer subsystem?

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Structures, values and daily activities work together to accomplish the primary purpose of the group

97
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What’s the innovator subsystem?

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Response to environmental change

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What’s physiologic-physical mode of adaptation?

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People as individuals interact as physical beings with environment
sense: fluid, electrolyte, acid-base balance: neurologic function: endocrine function

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What’s Self-concept mode of adaptation?

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A composite of beliefs and feelings that a person holds about him or herself at a given time: sense of purpose
Involves developing self, perceiving self, and focusing self

100
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What’s role function mode of adaptation?

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Role on people in society filing their needs for social integrity, relating self to others
Individual needs to know who one is in relation to others to act

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What’s Interdependence mode of adaptation?

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Close relationships of people and their purposes, structure and development

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