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MIDTERM - CH. 3 Flashcards

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1600’s – early 20th century

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NURSES AS ANGELS OF MERCY

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1600’s – early 20th century

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  • Virtuous and self sacrificing.
  • Kind and compassionate.
  • Virginal, moral, religious.
  • Images of the Roman Catholic Nuns.
  • Florence Nightingale: epitome of the angel of mercy.
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1920s

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NURSES AS GIRL FRIDAYS

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1920s

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  • Subservient, cooperative.
    • Dedicated, modest, loyal.
    • Loving, kind, compassionate.
    • Everything to everyone.
    • Societal perception that nursing was a calling (vocation) – done out of love, not for money.
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1930-1940s

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NURSES AS HEROINES

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1930-1940s

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  • Brave, rational, dedicated, humanistic, autonomous.
  • Major influence was WWII.
  • Strong image tied in with the war and military service, sacrifice.
  • Societal perception about nursing was of a positive image.
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A mental formulation of objects or event, representing the basic way in which ideas are organized and communicated.

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CONCEPT

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  • purposeful set of assumptions or propositions that identify the relationships between concepts.
    • provide a systematic view for explaining, predicting, and prescribing phenomena.
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THEORY

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Mental representation of how things work.

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THEORETICAL MODEL

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  • The theoretical structure that links concepts together for a specific purpose.
    • Links major nursing concepts and phenomena to direct nursing decisions.
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

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  • grand theories

- provide structural framework for broad, abstract ideas about nursing

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PARADIGM

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  • collective body of knowledge

- included person, environment, health care and nursing care

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METAPARADIGM CONCEPTS

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  • Provides insight into abstract phenomena, such as human behaviour or nursing science.
    • They provide the structural framework for broad, abstract ideas about nursing.
    • They are sometimes called paradigms because they represent distinct world views about those phenomena and provide structural framework.
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GRAND NURSING THEORY

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  • address specific phenomena or concepts and reflect practice .
    • The phenomena or concepts tend to cross different nursing fields and reflect a variety of nursing care situations.
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MIDDLE RANGE NUSING THEORY

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  • designed to guide and shape practice
  • derived from practice setting
  • reflected issues that were shaping the role and context of nursing
  • Florence Nightingale (client & environment)
  • McGill Model (health promotion)
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PRACTICE-BASED THEORIES

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  • client represents a collection of needs
  • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
  • Virginia Henderson (client is a compilation of 14 needs)
  • Dorothy Orem (individual’s role for maintaining health - people are responsible for meeting self-care needs)
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NEEDS-BASED THEORIES

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focuses on relationship between nurse and client

  • Hildegard Peplau (defined core of nursing care as interpersonal relationship between nurse and client)
  • Joyce Travelbee (viewed client as client & family & community)
  • Evelyn Adam (essence of nursing was helping process)
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INTERACTIONIST THEORIES

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accounted for the whole of entity (system) and its component parts (subsystems), as well as the interactions between parts and the whole

  • Dorothy Johnson (identified the individual as a behavioural system with 7 subsystems, each of which has a goal, a set of behaviours and a choice)
  • Betty Neuman (understood the person to be a physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual being)
  • Sister Callista Roy (considered the client not as behavioural system but rather as an adaptive one)
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SYSTEMS THEORIES

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  • A characteristic feature of these theories is what Rogers called the unitary human being.
  • viewed individual as irreducible whole, inherently connected with environment
  • Martha Rogers ( presenting the client not simply as a person but as an energy field in constant interaction with the environment)
  • Rosemarie Parse (termed human becoming, was another view of the individual as a unitary being who is “indivisible, unpredictable and everchanging)
  • Jean Watson (believed that nurses must do far more than deal with physical illness: they must attend to their primary function which is caring.)
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SIMULTANEITY THEORIST

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A description of concepts or connection of two concepts that are accepted as factual or true.

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ASSUMPTION

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Provide the structural framework for broad, abstract ideas about nursing.

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PARADIGM

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