Module 02: Nursing Theory Flashcards
These are described as the broad conceptual boundaries of the discipline of nursing.
Metaparadigm
The metaparadigm falls under what four (4) factors? (HEHN)
(1) Human Beings
(2) Environment
(3) Health
(4) Nursing
This sets forth the meaning of nursing phenomena through analysis, reasoning and logical presentation of concepts and ideas.
Philosophy
These are sets of concepts that address phenomena central to nursing in propositions that explain the relationship among them.
Conceptual Models
These are concepts that derive from a conceptual model and propose a testable proposition that tests the major premise of a model.
Grand Theory
These are testable propositions from philosophies, conceptual models, grand theories, abstract nursing theories, or theories from other disciplines.
Nursing Theory
These are theories that are less abstract than the grand theory but less specific than the middle-range theory.
Nursing Theory
These concepts are the most specific to practice that propose precise testable nursing practice questions and include details, such as patient age group, family situation, health condition, location of the patient, and action of the nurse.
Middle Range Theory
These are nursing theoretical systems that give direction and create understanding in practice, research, administration, and education.
The Future of Nursing Theory
These contribute to nursing knowledge with direction for the discipline, forming a basis for professional scholarship.
Nursing Philosophies
She is the founder of modern nursing.
Florence Nightingale
When and where was Florence Nightingale born?
May 12, 1820 (Florence, Italy)
When and where did Florence Nightingale complete her nursing training?
31 years old (1851 in Kaiserwerth, Germany)
What hospital did Florence Nightingale superintendent?
Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in London
What problems did Florence Nightingale address?
(1) Lack of sanitation (Victorian Era)
(2) Presence of Filth
What poem was she addressed as the Lady of the Lamp?
Santa Filomena
What did theories of modern nursing focus on?
(1) Environment
(2) Warmth, Light, Diet, Cleanliness and Noise
It was written not “as a manual to teach nurses to nurse” but assist millions of women who had charge of their families to “think how to nurse.”
Notes in Nursing
What is the most important practical lesson that nurses should learn?
Observation (what to observe and how to observe)
This is defined as the state of being well and using every power to the extent in living life.
Health
This is a reparative process and of the sufferings of diseases.
Disease
How does one maintain health and prevent disease?
(1) Environment Control
(2) Social Responsibility
for public health and health promotion, taking care of the well and the sick
It is ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet, all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Nursing
What is considered the most delicate test of sanitary conditions?
The life duration of tender babies
Where should nurses assist?
Reparative Process
How did Nightingale refer to the person?
Patient
What kind of patient is in the nurse-patient relationship?
Passive Patient as nurses are in control of and responsible for the patient’s environmental surroundings (we do not have any expectation to the patient and they are just there as recipients of care)
This major assumption pertains as to how nurses are assigned to assist the nature in healing the patient as well as the maintenance of a therapeutic or good physical living conditions.
Environment
This theory was developed when nightingale struggled to improve war-torn environment and workhouses.
Environmental Theory
What are the five essential components of the environment health?
(1) Pure Air
(2) Light
(3) Cleanliness
(4) Efficient Drainage
(5) Pure water
What is the focus of pure air?
(1) Ventilation - germ theory
(2) Warmth
“Keep the air he breathes as pure as of the external air, without chilling him”
Without this ventilation is comparatively useless?
Cleanliness
What are the effects of an inefficient drainage in a household?
(1) fever
(2) pyemia
In this, Nightingale advocated bathing patients on a frequent, even daily, basis at a time when this practice was not the norm. She required that nurses also bathe daily, that their clothing be clean, and that they wash their hands frequently.
Pure Water
This creates an expectation in the mind (status), which hurts the patient and has an effect upon the organ of the ear itself.
Unnecessary Noise or Noise
This sitting position is entailed for nurses so that the patient will not painfully turn his head to face you.
Sitting in front of a patient’s view
What kind of rules should nurses have regarding their patient’s diet?
(1) Rule of thought
(2) Rule of time
What did nightingale generated throughout her life time?
Varied subjects of healthcare, nursing and social reform (empirical evidence)
Nightingale highlighted the concurrent use of ___________________ and _____________ in the education of nurses.
Observation and Performance of tasks (Royalty - commission)
Nightingale often capitalized this word in her writings depicting as it was synonymous with God.
Nature
What kind of religious belief did Nightingale have to support the view of God as Nature?
Unitarian Religious Belief
This publication of Nightingale made a distinction between the role of the household servants and those trained specifically as nurses to provide care for the sick person.
Notes on Nursing (1969)
This pertains to being clear and easily understood.
Clarity Explains 3 major relationships: (1) Environment to patient, (2) Nurse to environment, and (3) Nurse to patient
Who developed the theory of transpersonal caring?
Margaret Jean Harman Watson
What school did Margaret Jean Harman Watson attended?
Lewis Gale School of Nursing and the University of Colorado
This program was established as the nation’s first interdisciplinary center using human caring knowledge.
Center of Human Caring (Watson Caring Science Institute)
What does the the caring point entail?
(1) Pausing
(2) Choosing to see
(3) Being present
How many books did Margaret Jean Harman Watson?
11 books
In this, it is an existential turning point wherein the nurse grasps the gestalt of the presenting moment and is able to read the field, beyond the outer appearance of the patient and the patient’s behavior.
Caring point
Watson described this as when the nurse is able to see and connect with the spirit of others, open to expanding possibilities of what can occur.
Being Transpersonal
Watson defined it as an imaginative grouping of knowledge, ideas, and experience that are represented symbolically and seek to illuminate a given phenomenon.
Theory
Watson acknowledges a ___________, ___________, and _______________ from the sciences and humanities.
Phenomenological, existential, and spiritual orientation.
Which transpersonal psychologist did Watson attributed her emphasis on the intrapersonal and transpersonal?
Carl Rogers
What was the definition of health by Watson which is associated with the degree of congruence between the self as perceived and the self as experienced?
unity and harmony within the mind, body and soul
This is defined as not necessarily a disease as it can be a subjective turmoil or disharmony within a person’s inner self or soul at some level of disharmony within the spheres of the person.
Illness
This process can result from genetic, constitutional vulnerabilities and manifest themselves when disharmony is present.
Disease (aggravates the illness)
These two phenomenon are not necessarily viewed on a continuum
illness and health (separate concepts)
This pertains to how Watson calls nurses to go beyond procedures, tasks, and techniques.
Trim
These are the aspects of nurse-patient relationship resulting to a therapeutic outcome
Core
This pertains to the elimination of a disease.
Curing
The person is a unity?
Mind, Body, Spirit, and Nature
This is tied to notices that one’s soul possesses a body and is not confined by objective time and space.
Personhood
According to Watson, these are healing spaces that can be used to transcend illness, pain and suffering and can be connected to the person itself.
Environment (Supportive, Corrective, Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual)
This is the essence of nursing and the foundational disciplinary core of the profession.
Caring Science
These comprise caring as they are known to facilitate healing, honor wholeness, and contribute to the evolution of humanity.
Carative Factors or Caritas Processes
Where can a caring relationship be deemed as one?
(1) If it invites emergence of the human spirit
(2) Opens to authentic potential
(3) Becomes authentically present
(4) allows the person to explore options
What are the ten (10) carative factors?
- The formation of a humanistic-altruistic system of values
- The instillation of faith-hope
- The cultivation of sensitive to one’s self and to others
- Development of a helping-trusting, human caring relation
- The promotion and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings
- Systematic use of a creative problem solving caring process
- The provision of supportive, protective and corrective mental, physical, societal, spiritual environment
- The assistance with gratification and human needs
- Allowance for existential, phenomenological and spiritual forces.