Week 1 Flashcards
What are the 5 main points for week one?
What makes a professional nurse
Metaparadigm concept of person
Holistic care
The 7 dimensions of holistic individual
Person & family centered care
What makes a professional nurse?
Displays initiative, confidence and self awareness
encourages collaborative interactions with health care team, with client as the centre
incorporates critical inquiry and rational practice for client focused assessment that emphasizes client input and the determinants of health
What is holistic?
the whole; considering all factors with the person
What is holistic health? The 5 needs? PESES
system of total patient care
physical, emotional, social, economic, spiritual needs
Considers the persons response to care
What is client?
A person whothe nurse engages with in a therapeutic relationship
client may also include family members or substitute decision makers.
group, community, or populations
What is a whole person?
The 9 needs?
PECSESDCI
nurse collaborates with clients to perform a holistic/comprehensive assessment of the clients following needs:
Physical, emotional, cognitive, social, environmental, spiritual, development, cultural, information needs
Must go through all the factors in order to do the assessment
What is CNO requirements for holistic care? (Whole person care)
Nurses are accountable for holistic assessment
part of a comprehensive assessment
general but also inclusive
prioritizing the most important issues
making interventions that are evidenced based
All actions nurses do are all done by evidence
Incorrect: doing things because “it has always been done that way”
What is evidence-informed practice?
incorporates evidence from research, clinical expertise, client preferences and other available resources to make nursing decisions
What is CNO’s definition of evidence-informed practice?
clinical decisions with clients that incorporates evidence from: ◦ Research ◦ Clinical expertise ◦ Client preferences ◦ Other available resources
represents a holistic approach that includes client preferences
Each decision is based on clients preferences, however, even if all evidence shows a better option, it is entirely up to the patient whether they want to choose that path
Nurses responsibility that all decisions are informed
What is UNB’s 7 dimensions of the holistic individual?
BPSSCSR
Biological Psychological Social Spiritual Cultural/Ethnic Sexual Relational
What is RNAO’s definition of Person and Family Centered Care
the person and their family at the center of health care and services
respects and empowers individuals to be genuine partners
Seeking insight into the whole person, their experience of health and their preferences
what is Person centered care?
person is viewed as whole
formation of a therapeutic relationship between the person, those who are significant to them, health care provider
involves advocacy, empowerment, and mutual respect
understand the right to be autonomous, to self-determine, and to actively participate in decisions about their health
What is family centered care?
the family is viewed as the center
they are respected and part of the whole
What is primary health care?
a philosophy and a resource for health
provides nursing education and practice for health services addressing the personal, family, and community participation
Nursing is one “point-of-entry”
What is justice/social justice?
4 basic necessities?
ethical concept of treating human beings fairly.
fair distribution of benefits and burdens
all deserves basic necessities and freedom/rights
Basic necessities:
access to health care, minimum standards of income, access to affordable housing and safe environment
