TFN Flashcards
Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of actual or potential health problems
American Nurses Association
Nursing is a dynamic discipline geared towards the promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness, and alleviation of suffering.
Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing
Nursing is autonomous and collaborative care in different age groups, sick or well in all settings.
International Council of Nurses
She begins the history of professional nursing who envisioned nurses as a body of educational women who were neither educated nor employed in public service.
Florence Nightingale
Nursing started in the intuitive way of caring for the sick members of the family. (T or F)
TRUE
Requires knowledge of different philosophical positions regarding what is good and right in making moral actions and decisions, particularly in the theoretical and clinical components of nursing.
Ethical Knowing
The interventions of the nurse rendering care in support of or in cooperation with the client.
Nursing
This aims to view the essence of nursing care.
Nursing Theory
These are patterns used to show a relationship among the existing theoretical works in nursing.
Metaparadigm
Conceptual frameworks are commonly represented through
diagram
External and internal aspects of life that influence the person.
environment
The holistic level of wellness that the person experiences.
health
The four major concepts in nursing theory are the
Person, Environment, Nursing, Health
According to Barnum, complete nursing theory is one that has
context, content and process
A highly established set of concepts that is testable.
Theoretical Model
It is a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that projects a tentative, purposeful and systemic view of phenomena.
Theory
One characteristic of theory must be
logical in nature
These are also called the building blocks of theories
Concepts
The use of Evidence-Based Nursing and Nursing Research that make use of a general or broad concept that needs to be studied and understand thru different supplemental materials, is an example of,
Rationalism
It makes use of objective and tangible data or those that are perceived by the senses to observe and collect data.
Empiricism
Encompasses knowledge of the self in relation to others and to self.
Personal knowing
It is related to understanding what is of significance to particular patients such as feelings, attitudes, and points of view.
Aesthetical knowing
Information, skills, and expertise acquired by the person through various life experiences or through formal/informal learning such as formal education, self-study or vocational.
Knowledge
The meaning of a word is based on how a certain theory or relevant literature perceives it to be.
Conceptual
She is the founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
history of nursing
- curriculum era
-research era
-graduate era
-theory era
-theory utilization era
specific to academic, branch of education
discipline
specialized field of practice
profession
factual descriptive knowing
empirics knowing