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