Week 4: Nursing Theory & Research, Evidence Pratice Flashcards
CRNA
Each proince has different nursing pratice standards under the HPA (framework(
CNA
Creates Code of Ethics, advances the health profession.
What is the nursing theory of evidence informed pratice:
Concept: An idea that represents some aspects of our world like hunger, pain. Or choose a concept like care and base theory around that
Theory: Waves together concepts in a special way to describe their relationships. Addresses nursing as evidence based.
Nursing Theory
- Knowlege about nursing organized for nurses to use in a professional way . Include a perspective for viewing patient situations, organizing data, method of analyzing and interpret information.
- Respects the disciplines best efforts to deal with complexity of nursing
- Florence Nightingales work was a early model for environmental theory sanitation. Her work is considered early theoretical and conceptual model for nursing
Nursing Science
body of knowlege about nursing pratice
Nursing Metaparadigm
All nursing theories wrote on these cornerstones.
- Person: any recipeint of care that is either sick/healthy. Holistic and determined by socail, physcial, culture.
- Health: determined by person/community, one’s definition. One’s defintion changes, and goal is to max the potential.
- Enviorment: anything that affects a person includes external and internal contexts. Health care, poverty, religon, education
- Nursing: ethical responsibilities, code of ethics
Examples of nursing theories:
- Florence Nightingale Enviormental Sanitation Theory
- Jean waston: Theory of human caring
- Sista Callista: adaptaption model of nursing
- Margaret Campbell- UBC model of nursing
Theory development
- Practice informs theory and research helps to bridge gap
Thinking and a broader understandinf of science and pratice of nursing.
Nursing Research
- Ways to idenify new knowledge and improve profession
- Generate findings
- Florence Nightingale
Qualitative and Quantitaive
Qualitaive: poses questions that cannot be measured; instead requries perspective
Quantitative: can be mesured
Nursing Theorists
Based their frameworks on many ways of thinking and expereince. Some are about ideas with behavior, systems, interactions. All have the same goal of excellent descion making in nuring
5 Steps to making descion
- Ask clincial question
- collect evidence
- research literacy: critque the evidence
- Integrate
- evaluate the pratice
Why evidence
Utilizing of research by nurses
Assist with making accurate and timely clinical descions.
Evidence informed pratice
Evidence
CNA defines as information acquired through rseasearch , scienifc evalution reasearch and used in decison making
Evidence Informed: ultization of research from nurses and use as a guide to help make descion