Week 1 Flashcards
What is the wellness-illness continuum? What significance does it have to the role of the professional nurse?
The wellness-Illness continuum is an illustrative tool that allows one to view the health status of the client/individual visually.
It is a good tool when the provider wants to view how the client views their own health by allowing them to place themselves on the continuum
Define Collaboration
A joint effort between or among two or more people for the purpose of creating change towards a mutually desired goal
Define Communication
All messages, verbal or non-verbal, conscious or unconscious, between or among two or more individuals
Define environment
The physical surroundings in which an individual exists, including chemical and biological atmosphere
Define Nursing Practice
Those actions taken by the nurse to decrease the number of stressors and/or strengthen the lines of defense, thus facilitating the individuals quest for homeostasis
Define nursing process
The systematic, dynamic, continuys series of independent steps by which nursing care is organized and delivered.
What are the 5 steps in the nursing process?
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Assessment Diagnosis Planning Implementation Evaluation
Define Conceptual framework
A tool used to organize ideas
Define Nursing Diagnosis
A clear, concise and definitive statement, based on analysis or assessment data, which identifies the clients health status and concerns that can be affected by nursing actions.
This serves as a basis for client goals and nursing interventions
Define Nursing
The profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm
Define Holism
A concept that views an individual as an integrated whole who has a reality independent and greater than the sum of its parts
Define Leadership
A relationship between individuals whereby interpersonal influence is exercised through the process of communication toward the achievement of specific goals
Define the adult learning theory
Theory that adult learners need content meaningful to life experiences. They take responsibility in their education and are more committed
Define Health
A state of homeostasis
Define Stressor
Any factor capable of causing alteration in homeostasis by penetration of the lines of defense
