Week 6 Flashcards
Florence nightingale
Founder of modern nursing
Focused more on health than illness
Linked health to fresh air, good hygiene, and light
Weir report
First national study of nursing education
- recommended significant increases in in educational standards
Hall commission
Recommended nursing education programs to be separate from hospitals
In BC, entry to nursing practice is
BSN, as of 2000
Masters and doctoral programs offered in Canada
32: and 15
CASN and its purpose
Canadian association of schools of nursing
To lead nursing eduction and scholarship in the interest of healthier Canadians
- establishes national standards
- promotes advancement of nursing knowledge
Issues in nursing education
Changes to healthcare needs
Changing demographics of regulated nurses
Nursing knowledge is derived from…
Sciences, personal knowing, and ethics
Nursing care requires the application of…
Nursing knowledge to a variety of practice situations
What is the nursing process
A systematic way to organize the knowledge of nursing practice to problem solve
Nursing process steps (5)
Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation
Theoretical models (4)
Practice based theory
Needs theory
Interactionist theory
Systems theory
Practice based theory
Guide and shape nursing practice
Needs theory
Studying the nature of people in which needs, drives, and competencies were used to explain human behaviour
Interactionist theory
Focuses in the nurse client relationship
Systems theory
Complex interaction between parts and the whole
Paradigm
Particular way of thinking based on a set of beliefs values and assumptions
Metaparadigm
Set of theories or ideas that provide structure for how a discipline should function
In nursing, theories consist of 4 basic concepts
They are…
Patient as a whole
Patients health and wellbeing
Patients environment
Nursing responsibilities
Langara school of nursing philosophical foundations
Humanism, phenomenology, feminism, critical social theory, post colonialism, empiricism
Humanism
Affirms the dignity, worth, and uniqueness of all people
Phenomenology
Focuses on the relationship of the person with their environment
Critical social theory addresses…
Social, economic, and power relationship that exist within society
Post colonialism
The social conditions related to colonization and racism
Colonialism rule shaped cultural forms and norms
