Midterm Flashcards
- “The Legacy of Caring”
- “Notes of Nursing” What is, What is Not”
- “In a nurturing environment, the body could repair itself.”
Florence Nightingale
“The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe- how-to observe… If you cannot get the habit of observation one way or other, you had better give up being a nurse, for it is not your calling, however kind and anxious
you may be.”
Florence Nightingale
major areas of the physical, social, and psychological environment that the nurse could control:
- Health of houses
- Ventilation and warming
- Light.
- Noise
- Variety
- Bed and bedding
- Cleanliness of rooms and walls
- Personal cleanliness
- Nutrition and taking food
- Chattering hopes and advices
- Observation of the sick
- Petty Management
The social and psychological environment that affect the physical environment are:
- Variety
- Chattering hopes and advices
- Petty management
The nurse who is able to recognize the most salient aspects and has an intuitive grasp of the situation based on background understanding
Proficient
According to Benner, there are major aspects of understanding that the person must deal with in order to have an effortless and non-reflective understanding of the self in the world. Which is NOT included in these major aspects?
The role of the life
This refers to the drama of suffering
Reconciliation
This refers to the drama of suffering
Reconciliation
Imogene King defined this as an organized boundary system of social role, behaviours and practices developed to maintain values and the mechanisms to regulate the practice and rules.
Social System
This is the process of change
Integrality
It is an interpretively defined area of skilled performance identified and described by its intent, function, and meanings
Competency
A theory which describes and explains relationships that must be brought about and maintained for nursing to be produced.
The theory of nursing systems
It is a way of understanding people from the way things appear to them, for their frame of reference
Phenomenology
Irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole in which cannot be predicted from knowledge of the parts.
Person
According to this theorist, Nursing is a learned profession that must be based on solid scientific information
Martha Rogers
Not a mere passage of time, but an active process of refining and changing preconceived theories, notions, and ideas when confronted with actual situations, it implies there is a dialogue between what is found in practice and what is expected.
Experience
It is a subjectivE turmoil or disharmony within a person’s inner self or soul.
Illness
It is associated with disharmony between the person and the environment or nature.
Disease
A cryptic description of skilled performance that requires a certain level of experience to recognize the implications of the instructions.
Maxim
It is the moment when the nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion for human caring is created. Both persons, with their unique phenomenal fields have the possibility to come together in a human-to-human transaction.
Caring Occasion
It is the most central and unifying focus for nursing practice
Caring
It occurs in particular clinical situations in which the teacher describes his or her understanding of the situation for students, including what is perceived as most relevant and salient.
Situated Coaching
It is characterized by intensity and vitality, and by warmth, closeness, rest, respect, honesty, and tolerance. It cannot be taken for granted but pre-supposes a conscious effort to be with the other.
Caring communion
It Involves dynamic life experiences of human being, which implies continuous adjustment to stressors in internal and external environment through optimum use of one’s resources to achieve maximum potential for daily living
Health
It is a human science of people and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human
Nursing
It is redefined as the unity and harmony within the body, mind, and soul, harmony between self and others and between self and nature and openness to increased possibility.
Health
She believed that when one or more aspects of the environment are out of balance, the client must use increased energy to counter the environment stress.
Nightingale
Nightingale’s concept of ______ is anything that can be manipulated to place a patient in the best possible condition for nature to act. She emphasized that nursing was to assist nature in healing the patient.
Environment
two essential behaviors by Nightingale
- Ask client what is needed or wanted.
- Observation.
- Identifying nursing actions needed to keep clients comfortable, dry, and in the best state for nature to act on.
- _____ is focused on modifying the environment to enhance the client’s ability to respond to the disease process.
- The desired outcomes are derived from the environmental model –for example, being comfortable, clean, dry, in the best state for nature to work on.
Outcomes and Planning
- Takes place in the environment that affects the client and involves taking action to modify that environment.
- All factors of the environment should be considered, including noise, air odors, bedding, cleanliness, light, all the factors that place clients in-the best position for nature to work upon them.
Implementation
- Is based on the effect of the changes in the environment on the client’s ability to regain his/her health at the least expense of energy.
- Observation is the primary method of data collection used to evaluate the client’s response to the intervention.
Evaluation
NIGHTINGALE’S 13 NURSING PROCESS CANONS
- Ventilation and warmth
- Light
- Cleanliness of rooms and walls
- Health of Houses
- Noise
- Bed and bedding
- Personal cleanliness
- Variety
- Chattering hopes and advices
- Taking food
- What food
- Petty management
- Observation of the sick
“the reactions of kindly nature against the conditions in which we have placed ourselves”
Environment
may be the least well-defined in Nightingale’s writings.
nurse-patient relationship
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF TRANSPERSONAL CARING
JEAN WATSON
“Both a human science and an art”
Jean Watson
3 Major Elements by Jean Watson
- Carative Factors
- The Transpersonal Caring Relationship
- The Caring Occasion/ Caring Moments
- Guide for the core of Nursing.
- Means caring with love
- Originated from the term “caritas” which means to cherish, appreciate, and give special attention.
- She uses the term Carative to contrast with conventional medicine’s curative factors
- Attempts to honor the human dimensions of expenses or am the inver sife world
Carative Factors
is a way of understanding people from the way things appear to them, for their frame of reference.
Phenomenology
is the study of human existence using phenomenological analysis.
Existential Psychology
is the moment when the nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion for human caring is created
caring occasion
caring occasion becomes “______” when “it allows for the presence of the spirit of both—then the event of the moment expands the limits of openness and has the ability to expand human capabilities”
transpersonal
STAGES OF NURSING EXPERTISE NURSING PHILOSOPHIES
Patricia Benner
In this stage of skill acquisition in the Dreyfus model, the person has no background experience of the situation in which he or she is involved. Contextfree rules and objective attributes must be given to guide performance. There is difficulty discerning between relevant and irrelevant aspects of a situation.
Novice