Prelims Flashcards
Seek to define what nursing is
Philosophies about Nursing
▪Tasks and Technical Skills
▪Moral/Ethical Behavior
▪Personal Growth and Development
▪Personal Knowledge
▪Professional Aesthetic Expression
Professional Activities
By Chinn & Kramer 1999
She completed a bachelor of arts degree at Wellesly College in 1922 and entered Johns Hopkins School of Nursing after
Ernestine Wiedenbach
At age 45, she enrolled in the school for midwives at the maternity center association of new york
Ernestine Wiedenbach
She taught at Yale School of Nursing and directed start the maternal newborn program
Ernestine Wiedenbach
Clinical Nursing : A Helping Art
Ernestine Wiedenbach
She retired in 1966
Ernestine Wiedenbach
▪Philosophy
▪Purpose
▪Practice
▪Art
Four Elements of Clinical Nursing
By Ernestine Wiedenbach
An attitude towards life and reality that evolves from each nurse’s beliefs and code of conduct
Philosophy
A. Reverence for the gift of life
B. Respect for the Dignity, Worth, Autonomy, and Individuality of each human being
C. A resolution to act on personally and professionally held beliefs
Three essential components for nursing philosophy
That which the nurse wants to accomplish through what he or she does – the overall goals for professional practice, including activities directed toward the overall good of the patient
Purpose
Observable nursing actions that are influenced by disciplined thoughts and feelings toward meeting the patients’s need for help.
These actions are goal directed and patient centered.
Practice
A. The nurse’s understanding
B. The nurse’s internal goals and external actions
C. The nurse’s actitivites directed towards improvement
D. The nurse’s interventions aimed at prevention of recurrence
Art of Clinical Nursing
- The Patient
- A Need for Help
- [Clinical] Judgement
- Nursing Skills
- Person (whether Nurse or Patient)
Five Key Terms of Actual Nursing Practice
by Ernestine Wiedenbach
Any person who entered the healthcare system and is receiving help of some kind, such as care, teaching or advice
Patient
Any measure desired by the patient that has the potential to restore or extend the patient’s ability to cope with various life situations that affect health and wellness
Need for Help
Represents the nurse’s likeness to make sound decisions
Clinical Judgement
Based on differentiating facts from assumption and relating them to cause and effect
Sound Decisions
Result of disciplined functioning of mind and emotions and improves with knowledge and increased clarity of professional purpose
Sound Judgement
Made up of a variety of actions and characterized by harmony of movement, precision and effective use of self
Nursing Skills
Carried out to achieve a specific patient-centered purpose rather than the completion of the skill itself being the end goal
Nursing Skills
Endowed with a unique potential to develop self-sustaining resources
Person
Generally tend toward independence and fullfillment of responsibilities
Person
Self-Awareness and Self-Acceptance are essential to personal integrity and self-worth
Person
Whatever an individual does at any given moment represents the best available judgement for that person at that time
Person
- Observe behaviors consistent and inconsistent with their comfort
- Explore the meaning of their behavior
- Determine the cause of discomfort or incapability
- Determine whether they can resolve their problems or have a need for help
Identify the Patient’s Need for Help
The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale
The Nightingale of Modern Nursing
Virginia Henderson
Notes on Nursing 1860
Florence Nightingale
The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery
The Environmental Theory
by Florence Nightingale