Roles and Relationships

Question 1

Def. Roles

Answer 1

• set of connected behaviors, rights, obligation, beliefs, & norms.
• temporary or permanent

Question 2

Def. Role Performance

Answer 2

The actual behavior & expression of an individual occupying a role

• how a person expresses his or her own role
• developed by affiliated groups, society or organization standards.

Question 3

Def. Role Mastery

Answer 3

Behaviors that meet role expectations or standards of behaviors of that role

ex: mother caring for sick child

Question 4

Def. Role Conflict

Answer 4

a feeling of being pulled in various directions due to trying to respond to incompatible demands.

***Short vs long period of time.

Question 5

What is INTRA-ROLE conflict?

Answer 5

demands are within a single role.

Question 6

What is INTER-ROLE conflict?

Answer 6

Two or more concurrently held roles such as work-family.

Question 7

Role conflict can cause what 3 things in an individual?

Answer 7

1. Tension
2. Decreased self-esteem
3. Embarassment

Question 8

What did Sister Callista Roy create?

Answer 8

“Adaptation Model of Nursing” which consists of the promotion of adaptation in each of the 4 modes:

1. physiological
2. self-concept
3. role function
4. interdependence

***MAIN goal: is for nurses to act as facilitators of adaptation by helping clients react positively to stimuli (human & environment integration) & eliminate ineffective coping mechanisms.

Question 9

Def. Role Function

Answer 9

• the position one occupies in society

- social integrity

Question 10

Name the 3 Role Categories.

Answer 10

1. Primary Role–role based on age, sex, developmental state.
2. Secondary Role–role a person assumes to complete tasks.
3. Tertiary Role–roles freely chosen, temporary

Question 11

Def. Role Transition

Answer 11

Process of assuming & developing a new role.