Orientation Lecture

Question 1

Health

Answer 1

• has a variety of meanings
• includes biological, physical, psychological, social, development, cognitive, cultural, and spiritual aspects
• influenced by many factors

Question 2

Health Factors

Answer 2

• person/ individual and client
• environment
• nurses and nursing
• nursing education
• teachers and teaching
• learners and learning

Question 4

Person/ individual and Client

Answer 4

• Unique traits, values, beliefs and perceptions.

- clients can mean a person, family, group, community, society, or humanity

Question 5

Environment

Answer 5

• greatly impacts health and is the surroundings and atmosphere in when the clients live-includes circumstances

Question 6

Nurses Education

Answer 6

• transforms students into professional nurses

Question 7

Teachers and teaching

Answer 7

• creative positive learning climate

- facilitate, coach, support, mentor

Question 8

Learners and learning

Answer 8

• learning is critical and lifelong
• meaningful synthesis (internalized and shared with others)
• an approach/ framework that guides the nurses behaviours
• acknowledges that content plays a large role
• ensures all interactions are purposeful and useful to the client.

Question 9

Conceptual Framework

Answer 9

Concept- mental formation of an object or an event; can be concrete (readily observable) or abstract (nonobservable)
Conceptual framework- a group of related concepts- which provides an overall view of the relationship between concepts

Question 10

Relational Nursing Practice Framework

Answer 10

• a “picture” of what Nursing is

- contains concepts: content, reflection, reflexivity

Question 11

Factors

Answer 11

Factors that impact the nurse-client partnership:
- environment, characteristics of the partnership, professional expectations of the nurse, knowledge and skill of the nurse, knowledge and beliefs of the client, health status of client.

Question 12

Reflection and Reflexivity

Answer 12

Reflection- constantly critically examining the partnership and themselves (what can I do differently)
Reflexivity- based on their reflection, the nurse must make changes to improve the partnership

Question 13

Self Reflection in nursing

Answer 13

• one of the most important skills
• nurses must be aware that they have “context” too, which impacts partnership
• “why do I feel the way I do?”
• “what needs to change?”

Question 14

Nurses and Nursing

Answer 14

• a professional discipline
• primary role is to develop relational partnerships with clients to reach optimal health and well-being
• this is achieved by developing a nurse-client partnership (therapeutic relationship)