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Unit #1: Introduction to Professional Practice Flashcards

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What is NURSING?

  • __(1)__ and __(2)__ care of individuals of all ages, families, groups, and communities, sick or well, and in all settings
  • includes the __(3)__ of health, __(4)__ of illness, and the care of ill, disabled, and dying people
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(1) = autonomous
(2) = collaborative
(3) = promotion
(4) = prevention

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Other key nursing roles include…

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  • advocacy
  • promotion of a safe environment
  • research
  • participation in shaping the management of health policy, in-patient, and health systems
  • education
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What are some areas of nursing practice?

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  • Hospital
  • Oncology
  • Palliative & Hospice Care
  • Gerontology
  • Street Nursing
  • Telehealth
  • Nursing Informatics
  • Rural & Remote Nursing
  • Occupational Health Nursing
  • Correctional Nursing
  • Parish Nursing
  • Community Health
  • Communicable Disease Control
  • Indigenous Nursing
  • Educational Institutions
  • Nurse Clinicians
  • Nurse Researcher
  • Nurse Practitioner
    . . . a n d m o r e . . .
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  • health care leaders who contribute to a health population
  • work alone OR in a collaborative team in various areas of practice and settings
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Registered Nurses (RNs)

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What do Nurses do?
- coordinate health care
- deliver direct services and support clients in their self-care decisions and actions in situations of __(1)__, __(2)__, __(3)__, and __(4)__ in __(5)__ stages of life

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(1) = health
(2) = illness
(3) = injury
(4) = disability
(5) = all

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N U R S E S . . .
- act as an __(1)__ for patients accessing healthcare services
- provide __(2)__ and __(3)__
- assist with identifying healthcare __(4)__
- source of __(5)__
- __(6)__ client autonomy and decision making
- promote health priorities/needs as __(7)__ decides
- __(8)__ patient/client advocacy
- __(9)__ the use of healthcare resources (community, outpatient, in-patient)

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(1) = entry point
(2) = care
(3) = treatment
(4) = resources
(5) = information
(6) = promote
(7) = patient/client
(8) = promote
(9) = encourage

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  • Social Detriments of Health (SDoH)
  • aging population
  • chronic disease (chronicity)
  • stress and mental health
  • poverty and homelessness
  • family patterns
  • where we live and work
  • new Canadians
  • First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people
  • disease patterns
  • healthcare systems
  • nursing workforce
  • the environment
  • disaster planning (pandemic)
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Current CONTEXTS for Canadian Nursing

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  • Marie Rollet Hebert
  • Jeanne Mance
  • Marguerite d’Youville
  • Florence Nightengale
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Early Influences of Nursing Leaders

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Modern Nursing History - War Nursing
- saw a shift from religious order to a profession of __(1)__ and __(2)__

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(1) = skill
(2) = bravery

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____________ brought about…
- a shift to de-professionalization, emphasized through the conditions within many hospital-based training schools
- a return to conservative values of home and family (women should simply marry and have children)

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Post-War Societal Pressures

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After WWII, nursing was more or less viewed as an extension of the __________ = maternal and nurturing

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female societal role

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Significant policy change in 1967 allowed __(1)__ to become __(2)__ in the Nursing Division.

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(1) = male nurses
(2) = officers

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Advancement of Men in Nursing:
- 1961: only __(1)__ out of the 170 schools accepted males
- men can now apply to __(2)__ nursing programs in Canada
- 2007: __(3)__ of nurses were men
- 2016: __(4)__ of nurses were men
- In Canada, as of 2017, 276,800 nurses were __(5)__, and 24,150 nurses were __(6)__

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(1) = 25
(2) = all
(3) = 5% - 7%
(4) = 7.8%
(5) = women
(6) = men

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Continuous Challenges for Canadian Nursing & Profession:
- __(1)__ views of women
- images of nursing as a __(2)__ profession
- stereotypes of __(3)__ in nursing
- scope of practice
. . . a n d m o r e . . .

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(1) = sexualized
(2) = feminized
(3) = men

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  • an idea or notion representative of some aspect of human/personal experience
  • building blocks of theory
  • influenced by CONTEXT
    ex. if _______ was “student”, then C O N T E X T may be “nursing student”, “RN student”, “NP student”, etc
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Concept

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  • connections, links, or relationships within, between, or amongst concepts to explain, describe, or predict something
  • a “cluster of CONCEPTS” that are connected
  • can promote new understanding/discovery
    ex. Patricia Benner: _______ from Novice to Expert; Jean Watson: _______ of Human Caring; Madeline Leininger: _______ of Transcultural Nursing
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Theory

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Healthcare Workers refer to individuals as __(1)__ in in-patient/hospital settings, and as a __(2)__ when the person is an out-patient/community member.

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(1) = patient
(2) = client

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What is the relationship of THEORY to NURSING?
there are 4 points

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1. Practice

#2. Research
#3. Education
#4. Administration

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__(1)__:

  • a theory developed in the 1970’s and 1980’s
  • account for the “whole” of an entity (the __(2)__), the component parts (the __(3)__), and the interactions between the parts and the whole
  • view the individual as an __(4)__ in constant interaction with their own environment
  • __(5)__ (outside the system) become one of the many forces to have an effect on the __(6)__ system
  • helps nurses to recognize that __(7)__ in any one part of the system would result in __(8)__ in other parts and the system as a whole
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(1) = Systems Theory
(2) = system
(3) = subsystem
(4) = open system
(5) = nurses
(6) = patient/client
(7) = intervention
(8) = reactions

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used to describe a global framework or the way a professional discipline views the world

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Metaparadigm

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PRIMARY __(1)__ describe the KEY __(2)__

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(1) = CONCEPTS
(2) = COMPONENTS

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What is the Metaparadigm of Nursing?

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1. Nurse

#2. Person
#3. Health
#4. Envitronment

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NURSE — PERSON — HEALTH — ENVIRONMENT

  • these 4 concepts form the cornerstones of __(1)__ (central to the discipline of nursing)
  • each concept has a definition, and can __(2)__ the other concepts
  • concepts are __(3)__ and __(4)__
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(1) = nursing theories
(2) = influence
(3) = interrelated
(4) = connected

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differ from one another based on how the metaparadigm concepts are contextualized
(it’s what we add to them that make them different - each has its strengths and limitations)

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Nursing Theories

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What are the 4 Ways of Knowing in Nursing?
– Carper (1978) Ways of Knowing –

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1. Empirical

#2. Aesthetic
#3. Ethical
#4. Personal

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  • factual
  • scientific
  • objective data
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Empirical

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subjective data based on personal experiences

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Aesthetic

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  • moral knowledge that nurses possess
  • what’s right or wrong
  • “moral compass”
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Ethical

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knowledge from interactions with patients/family, experience

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Personal

30
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_______ has been identified as another way of knowing. What are some Additional Ways of Knowing that you can think of?

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Indigenous

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  • the process of pursuing and influencing the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of others regarding a course of action
  • guide us through adversity, uncertainty, hardship, disruption, transformation, recovery, new beginnings, and other significant challenges while also seeking to disturb the status quo
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Leadership

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  • directing and leading others to meet desired outcomes in the workplace through the effective and efficient use of resources
  • traditional _______ actions include;
    —planning
    —organization
    —commanding
    —coordination
    —controlling
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Management

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_______ Theories =

primarily focused on PEOPLE and RELATIONSHIPS

Transformational
Resonant
Servant
Quantum

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Relational Theories

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  • inspire
  • motivate
  • influence
  • sensitive to the needs of others
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Transformational

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  • building relationships
  • managing emotions
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Resonant

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in service to others; prioritizes the greater good

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Servant

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  • change aspect
  • assists others to adapt
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Quantum

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_______ Theories =

primarily focused on TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED

Transactional
Dissonant
Passive Avoidant
Instrumental

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Task-Based Theories

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  • expected performance and reward based
  • prevents problems
  • correct variations from standard
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Transactional

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leaders lack empathy, can be negative, and lack emotional intelligence

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Dissonant

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  • avoid taking action
  • react with corrective action
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Passive Avoidant

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  • behaviors are NOT based on values
  • focused on strategies to meet work outcomes
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Instrumental

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