Module 04: Grand Nursing Theory (Part 02) Flashcards
She is the first person in Egypt to obtain a BSN degree in Syracuse University. Moreover, she is a prominent nurse sociologist, and speaker of topics of women’s health, immigrant health care, international health care and theoretical development
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis
What did Meleis’ research focus on?
Her research focused on people who do not make healthy transitions and the discovery of interventions to facilitate healthy transitions
This attempts to describe and attend the interactions between nurses and patients in which nurses are concerned with the experiences of people as they undergo transitions whenever health and wellbeing are the desired outcome
Transitions Theory
According to Meleis”s Transitions Theory, what should be the nurse’s concern?
the experiences of people as they undergo transitions whenever health and wellbeing are the desired outcome
This is referred to as the passage from one fairly stable state to another fairly stable state and it is a process triggered by change
Transition
What triggers transitions?
Change
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this pertains to any difficulty in the cognizance and/or performance of a role or of the sentiments and goals associated with the role behavior as perceived by the self or by significant others
Role Insufficiency
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this pertains to any deliberate process through which role insufficiency or potential role insufficiency can be identified by the incumbent role and significant others
Role Supplementation
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this type of transition pertains to the birth, adolescence, menopause, aging, death
Developmental Transition
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this type of transition pertains to the changes in educational and professional roles, changes in family situations (e.g., divorce, widowhood), or changes in living arrangements (e.g., move to a nursing home, homelessness)
Situational Transitions
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this type of transition pertains to the recovery process, hospital discharge, diagnosis of chronic illness
Health–illness transitions—
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this type of transition pertains to the changing environmental conditions that affect the lives of clients; may be social, political, or economic
Organizational transitions
What do patterns of transitions include?
(1) Multiplicity
(2) Complexity
What should one consider in terms of patterns of transitions?
¡ Happen sequentially or simultaneous
¡ Degree of overlap among transitions
¡ Essence o associations among events
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this property of transition experiences pertains to the perception, knowledge and recognition of transition experience
Awareness
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this property of transition experiences pertains to the degree to which a person demonstrates involvement in the process inherent in the transition
Engagement
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this property of transition experiences pertains to the change is something that brings a sense of movement or direction to internal as well as external processes and differences includes dissimilar expectation, worldview etc
Change and Difference
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this property of transition experiences is characterized as flowing or moving over time
Time Span
According to Meleis Transitions Theory, this property of transition experiences pertains to the markers such as birth, death, cessation of menstruation or diagnosis of illness, linked to intensifying awareness of changes
Critical Points and Events
This indicator direct clients into health or toward vulnerability and risk make nurses conduct early assessment and intervention to expedite healthy outcomes
Process indicators
This indicators is used to check whether a transitions is a healthy one.
Outcome Indicators
In matters of nursing therapeutics under the transitions theory, this is referred to as an interdisciplinary effort and based on full understanding of the client
Assessment of Readiness
In matters of nursing therapeutics under the transitions theory, this is referred to as an education as the main modality for generating the best condition to be ready for a transition
Preparation for Transition
In matters of nursing therapeutics under the transitions theory, this is referred to as the use of education and practice to facilitate the transitional process
Role Supplementation
She is endeavored to make a disturbing life experience logical while caring for her mother who was experiencing restricted body movement d/t ALS, she then became interested in nursing
Margaret A. Newman
What degrees did Newman receive?
¡ Earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and English
¡ Earned another bachelor’s degree in nursing and doctorate in nursing science and rehabilitation
What is Newman’s research about?
Researching the relationship of movement, consciousness and
development of her theory of health as expanding consciousness
What are the major assumptions of Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness?
- Health encompasses conditions heretofore described as illness or, in medical terms, pathology.
- These “pathological” conditions can be considered a manifestation of the total pattern of the individual.
- The pattern of the individual that eventually manifests itself as pathology is primary and exists before structural or functional changes.
- Removal of the pathology in itself will not change the pattern of the individual.
- If becoming “ill” is the only way an individual’s pattern can manifest itself, then that is health for that person.
- Health encompasses conditions described as illness or pathology
- These conditions as the manifestations of the total pattern of the individual
- The pattern is primary and exists before structural or functional changes
- Removal of the pathology will not change the pattern of the individual
- If becoming ill is the only way an individual’s pattern can manifest itself, then that is health for that person
How did Newman perceive nursing?
It is the act of assisting people to use the power within them to
evolve toward higher levels of consciousness; facilitates the process of pattern recognition by a rhythmic connecting of the nurse with the client
How did Newman perceive health?
Health is the expanding consciousness, evolving pattern of the whole of life; unitary and fluctuating pattern
How did Newman perceive person?
It is a dynamic pattern of energy and open system in interaction
wit the environment
According to Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness, this is referred to as the capacity of the system to interact and includes thinking, feeling, and processing the information
Consciousness
According to Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness, this is referred to as the increasing complexity of the living system resulting in transformation and discovery
Expanding Consciousness
According to Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness, this is referred to as the condition of living creatures
Integration Via Movement
According to Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness, this is referred to as a scheme, design or framework seen in person-environment interactions
Pattern
According to Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness, this is referred to as the temporal patterns that are specific to individuals and define their ways of being within their world
Time and space