Myra Estrin Levine

Question 1

A nursing theorist knew for her esoteric nursing model—the Conservation Model

Answer 1

Myra Estrin Levine

Question 2

In this model, nursing aims to promote adaptation and maintain wholeness using the 4 principles of conservation
to improve a person’s physical and emotional well-being by considering the 4 domains of conservation she set out

Answer 2

The Conservation Model

Question 3

Levine’s conservation model believes nursing intervention is a _____ activity

Answer 3

conservation

Question 4

Nursing’s role in conservation is to help the person with the process of ______ the total person through the least amount of effort.

Answer 4

“keeping together”

Question 5

Major Concepts of Levine’s Conservation Model

c- S, A, C, H, E, N, P, P, S

Answer 5

Social Integrity, Adaptation, Conservation, Health, Environment, Nursing, Person, Personal Integrity, Structural Integrity

Question 6

Process of change and integration of the organism in which the individual retains integrity or wholeness

Answer 6

Adaptation

Question 7

The environment includes both ____

Answer 7

internal and external environment.

Question 8

the unique individual in unity, integrity, feeling, belief, thinking, and whole

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Person

Question 9

The pattern of adaptive change of the whole being

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Health

Question 10

Human interaction relying on communication

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Nursing

Question 11

Joining together and is the product of adaptation

Answer 11

Conservation

Question 12

Person’s sense of identity and self-definition

Answer 12

Personal Integrity

Question 13

Life’s meaning gained through interactions with others

Nurses intervene to maintain relationships.

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Social Integrity

Question 14

Healing is the process of restoring structural integrity

Answer 14

Structural Integrity

Question 15

Sub-concepts Three Concepts of Adaptation

c- R, H, S

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Redundancy, Historicity, Specificity

Question 16

Responses are based on past experiences, both personal and genetic.

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Historicity

Question 17

Each system has particular responses.

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Specificity

Question 18

there is an interacting and evolving effect in which one sequence is not yet completed when the next begins

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Redundancy

Question 19

Nursing interventions are based on the conservation of the patient’s energy

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Energy Conservation

Question 20

The singular yet integrated response of the individual to forces in the environment.

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Holism

Question 21

Stable state normal alterations in physiologic parameters respond to environmental changes

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Homeostasis

Question 22

The many ways information, needs, and feelings are transmitted among the patient, family, nurses, and other health care workers

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Modes of Communication

Question 23

Interventions that influence adaptation favorably, enhancing the adaptive responses available to the person

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Therapeutic Interventions

Question 24

a sentient being, and the ability to interact with the environment

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Assumptions About Individuals

Question 25

must be based on the unique behavior of the individual patient

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Assumptions About Nursing

Question 26

balancing energy input and output to avoid excessive fatigue. It includes adequate rest, nutrition, and exercise

based on nursing interventions to conserve through a deliberate decision to balance activity and the person’s available energy

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Conservation of energy

Question 27

maintaining or restoring the structure of the body preventing physical breakdown and promoting healing

the basis for nursing interventions to limit the amount of tissue involvement.

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Conservation of structural integrity

Question 28

Recognizes the individual as one who strives for recognition, respect, self-awareness, selfhood, and self-determination

based on nursing interventions that permit the individual to make decisions for himself or participate in the decisions

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Conservation of personal integrity

Question 29

an individual is recognized as someone who resides within a family, a community, a religious group, an ethnic group, a political system, and a nation.

based on nursing interventions to preserve the client’s interactions with the family and the social system they belong to.

Answer 29

Conservation of social integrity