PRELIMS: NURSING AS AN ART

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defined as a universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another

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caring

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describes the concept of care as the essence and central unifying dominant domain ; nurturing and skilfull activities

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madeleine leininger

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a holistic model for nursing that suggests that a conscious intention to care promotes healing and wholeness ; holistic approach ; caring is central

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watson’s transpersonal caring

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a client well-being should be enhanced through the caring of a nurse who understands the common human response

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swanson’s theory of caring

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striving to understand the meaning of an event in the life of the other, avoiding assumptions, focusing on the person cared for

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knowing

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means being emotionally present to the other

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being with

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to do for others what one would do for self if at all possible, including anticipating needs, comforting

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doing for

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facilitating the other’s passage through life transitions and unfamiliar events

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enabling

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sustaining faith in the other’s capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future

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maintaining belief

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6 C’s of caring

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compassion
competence
confidence
conscience
comportment
commitment

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means to be with another in their suffering ; it is empathy and sensitivity to human pain and joy that allows one to enter into the experience of another

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compassion

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acquiring and using evidence based scientific and humanistic knowledge and skill

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competence

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directs moral, ethical, and logical decision making

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conscience

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trust in one’s ability to care for others

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confidence

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maintaining and elevating the standards and obligations of the nursing profession

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commitment

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professional presentation of us as nurses to others in behavior, attitude, appearance

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comportment

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caring focuses on caring in organization as cultures

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theory of bureaucratic caring

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refer to the ideal of right and wrong

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ethics

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a process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health

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health promotion

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activities designed to protect patients

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disease prevention

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prevention of the emergence or development of risk factors

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primordial prevention

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action taking prior to onset of disease

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primary prevention

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action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient stage and prevents complication

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secondary prevention

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all measures available to reduce or limit impairments and disabilities

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tertiary prevention

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refers to activities that preserve an individuals present state of health

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health maintenance

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focuses on the individual with an illness and range

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health restoration

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set of interventions designed to optimize functioning and reduce disability

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rehabilitation