Prelim Flashcards
It is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Nursing
the professional judgments that nurses make every day to our patients, colleagues, members of other disciplines and the public
Nursing Diagnosis
the process of identifying a disease, condition, or injury from its signs and symptoms
Medical Diagnosis
those signs, symptoms and processes which denote the individual’s interaction with an actual or potential health problem.
Human Response
Also called pathogenesis. It is the way a disease gradually impacts an organism and how it starts and develops into a major health issue.
Disease Process
Human Response and done by…
Nurses
Disease Process is work of…
Doctors
Environmental Theory is made by…
Florence Nightingale
Who said this statement: “act of utilizing environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery”
Florence Nightingale
Mother of Modern Nursing
Florence Nightingale
Who said this statement: “the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of these activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform an aided if he had a necessary strength, will or knowledge, and to do his in such a way as to keep him gain independence as rapidly as possible.”
Virginia Henderson
Who made the Needs Theory/14 Fundamental Needs?
Virginia Henderson
the center of nursing practice
Patient
Levels of Clientele
Individual, Families, Communities, Population
Nursing is both…
Science and Art