Quotations Flashcards
“To be ‘in charge’ is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that everyone else does so too.”
Florence Nightingale
“all women at some time or another would be called upon to “nurse” family or friends, and though “nurses” themselves may or may not have been formally trained, the act of nursing required educated and meticulous planning by those wishing to provide effective nursing care.”
Florence Nightingale
“light has quite as real and tangible effects upon the human body…Who has not observed the purifying effect of light, and especially of direct sunlight, upon the air of a room?”
Florence Nightingale
“the most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe, how to observe, what symptoms indicate improvement, which are evidence of neglect and what kind of neglect.”
Florence Nightingale
according to her nursing consist of “knowledge, thought, values, philosophy, commitment, and action with some degrees of passion.
Jean Watson
“I make the point to use mind, body, soul or unity within an evolving emergent world view-connectedness of all”
Jean Watson
“The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge; and to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible”
Virginia Henderson
“I believe that the function the nurse performs is primarily an independent one – that of acting for the patient when he lacks knowledge, physical strength, or the will to act for himself as he would ordinarily act in health, or in carrying out prescribed therapy. This function is seen as complex
and creative, as offering unlimited opportunity for the application of the physical, biological, and social sciences and the development of skills based on them.”
Virginia Henderson
“I say that the nurse does for others what they would do for themselves if they had the strength, the will, and the knowledge. But I go on to say that the nurse makes the patient independent of him or her as soon as possible.”
Virginia Henderson
“Nurse should have knowledge to practice individualized and human care and should be a scientific problem solver.”
Virginia Henderson
“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant and the knowledge and confidence for the young mother…“Henderson stated that “Thorndike’s fundamental needs of man”
Virginia Henderson
“the nurse does for others what they would do for themselves if they had the strength, the will, and the knowledge. But I go on to say that the nurse makes the patient independent
of him or her as soon as possible.”
Virginia Henderson
“The mind and body being separable, a person must maintain physiological and emotional balance. An individual requires assistance in order to achieve health and independence or a peaceful death. Individuals will achieve or maintain health if they have the necessary strength, will or
knowledge. The individual and family should be viewed as a unit.”
Virginia Henderson
“Nursing is practical endeavor, but it is practical endeavor engaged in by person who have specialized theoretic nursing knowledge with developed capabilities to put this knowledge to work in con___ situation of nursing practice”
Dorethea Orem
“The body of knowledge that guides the art and Science incorporates empirical and antecedent knowledge”
Dorethea Orem
“Nursing is an external regulatory force that act to preserve the organization and integration of the patient’s behavior at an optimal level under those condition is which the behavior constitutes a threat to a physical or social health or in which illness is found”
Dorothy Johnson
Human systems have thinking and feeling capacities, rooted in
consciousness and meaning, by which they adjust effectively to changes in the environment and, in turn, affect the environment.”
Callista Roy
The conditions, circumstances and influences surrounding and affecting the
development and behavior of persons or groups, with particular consideration of the mutuality of person and health resources that includes focal, contextual
and residual stimuli.”
Callista Roy
Health is not freedom from the inevitability of death, disease, unhappiness, and stress, but the ability to cope with them in a competent way.”
Callista Roy
The goal of nursing is] the promotion of adaptation for individuals and groups in each of the four adaptive modes, thus contributing to health,
quality of life, and dying with dignity.”
Callista Roy
Person who promotes health, quality of life and dying with dignity while promoting the adaptation of individuals and therefore adaptive notes (physiological, self-concept, role function, and interdependence)
Nursing
Nurses assess the surrounding environmental factors affecting an inhibiting adaptation to make interventions effectively
Nursing
Conditions and circumstances which affect a person’s development and behavior
environment
When the environment is changed, it results in adaptive responses from the individual, whether it is negative or positive change, it hinders energy expenditure from the individual to adapt to the specific situation
environment
Is a continuum
- State or process of becoming
integrated that reflects person and
environment meteorology
- Different levels of healthy vs. not
healthy
health
