nursing 208 lecture- exam 1 Flashcards
what is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health care problems?
nursing
What type of process is the nursing process?
solving and thinking
Who’s policy statement is this?
“nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, preventions of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses, and advocacy, in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations”
ANA
what has the “distinction of being responsible for the caring that clients recieve in the health care system”?
nursing
who developed the philosophy in science of caring?
jean watson
Where was Jean Watson a professor at ?
university of colorado nursing program
who believed caring was essential for nursing?
jean watson
watson’s theory is ______ and often used as a basis of nursing practice in schools/ hospitals.
holistic
what did watson feel threatened the care in nursing?
technology, and different levels of practice
A fever of 104 is?
pyrexia
What is the one thing to remember about restraints?
make sure they are not visible
a nurse who takes responsibility for their personal performance displays:
conscientiousness
a patient who has a wound caused by an accident displays clean wound and free of redness. if not properly taken care of by the nurse, the wound can get infected. what is appropriate nursing diagnosis for this problem:
risk/high risk nursing diagnosis
what said caring is ___ to nursing?
central
Caring is a ____ idea rather than a behavior.
moral
caring is _____ inherited according to watson
not
caring is the preservation of _________ and ________
human dignity and humanity
Why does watson say technology is a threat to nursing?
because our patient’s need to be touched and feel as though they are the only ones in the hospital.
why does watson feel different levels of nursing practice is a threat to nursing?
a nurse may be asked to do something outside of their scope of practice
what are watson’s 10 carative factors?
- altruistic values
- sensitivity to others
- a warm, genuine, and empathetic feeling
- interpersonal teaching
- scientific problem solving
- acceptance of your own feelings
- acceptance of other’s feelings
- providing a comfortable, private, and safe environment
- assist the patient with attaining lower and higher order of needs
- phenomenology of existential psychology
what should all 10 of watson’s carative factors do?
preserve human dignity of the patient
Which one of watson’s values am i explaining?: you have to be a nurse for the right reason, because you want to help and care for people, not because of the money or anyother reason?
altruistic
Which one of watson’s values am I explaining: you need to be able to look at people and sense what they are feeling, be able to care about other people; you can’t just use your own morals, values, beliefs, or ideas and not think about your patients.
sensitivity to others
which one of the 10 carative factors from watson is this explaining: patients can tell immediately if you are faking your feelings; you need to really want to be there and want to help them; you need to be empathetic.
a warm, genuine and empathetic helping
which watson’s 10 carative factors is this one: you should always be willing to teach as you go along as well as learning from your patient’s shoes.
interpersonal teaching-learning
Which one of watson’s 10 carative factors uses the nursing process?
scientific problem solving
What of the 10 carative factors does this explain? you need to look inside and ask yourself how you feel about certain things; you need to put your feelings aside and give everything you can to the patient
acceptance of your own feelings
which one of watson’s carative factors is this describing: patients may be hostile, angry, ill, on medications, etc. that may cause them to lash out on you and you can’t take it personally
acceptance of other’s feelings
What are the lower needs we need to assist the patient with according to watson is:
air, food, water (things we need to survive)
what are the higher needs of our patients according to watson?
spirituality, or self esteem
What carative factor from Watson is this describing: you should take things for face value, you should at least realize that there are other beliefs out there; you don’t have to change what you believe, but you should be aware of it.
phenomenology of existential psychology
critical thinking is essential for _______________
good decision making
what is critical thinking also called?
clinical reasoning
what is an intellectual process that involves developing a rational, justifiable response to situations where there are no definitive answers and where not all- relevant information is available?
critical thinking
What requires knowledge but is more than gathering and stating facts or concepts. it is the ability to use that knowledge in situations of ambiguity, uncertainty and risk?
critical thinking
what are the characteristics of critical thinking?
rational/reflective, constructively skeptical, autonomous, creative thinking, fair thinking, and focuses on what to believe and do
what is based on logic, thinking before acting, take time?
rational/ reflexive
what inspires questions, don’t mindlessly follow rules.
ex: when a doctor gives you an order, you should look at it and see if it’s appropriate for your patient
constructively skeptical
think for yourself, not lead by a group or accept beliefs of others
autonomous
creates original ideas; come up with new solutions for things
creative thinking
not biased or one-sided, seeks all views before taking a stand
fair thinking