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NURS 272 Exam 2 Questions And Correct
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Advocacy: - answer✔:the act of pleading for, supporting, or representing a cause or individual
- advocacy in nursing applies to any act in which the nurse is serving in the best interests of the
patient
Speaking up - answer✔ensures that health needs are met and is an expectation within the scope
of professional nursing practice
What are highly valuable communication skills that are critical for effective pt advocacy? -
answer✔ability to speak assertively, credibly, and authoritatively
Is the Patient Bill of Rights a type of advocacy - answer✔yes
Self-determination: - answer✔making up one's own mind regarding what to do or think without
regard to outside influence
- free will, independence
Social Justice: - answer✔the principle that all persons are entitled to have their basic human
needs met, regardless of difference in economic status, class, gender, race ethnicity, citizenship,
religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or health
- includes the eradication of poverty and illiteracy, the equality of sound environmental policy,
and equality of opportunity for healthy personal and social development
Altruism: - answer✔the unselfish regard for others welfare
Valuing: - answer✔to consider or rate highly, to prize or esteem, to appreciate. - -- Nurses must
value the patient's beliefs and concerns in order to be their advocate. This requires knowledge of
the patient's story.
Aspiring: - answer✔information, to tell, to educate
- in addition to knowing the pt's story, nurse needs to know what the pt knows
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- fill in gaps
Interceding: - answer✔to intervene in order to defend or help another person, speaking to
someone to assist another
- this is advocating
What is required to advocate for a pt? - answer✔- effective communication skills
- full knowledge of pt
- knowledge of interrelated concepts
Caring: - answer✔:a universal phenomenon that influences the way humans think, feel and
behave in relation to one another
Caring (specific to nursing): - answer✔- nurse's empathy for connection with the pt
- ability to translate these effective characteristics into compassionate, sensitive, appropriate care
Theoretical views on Caring - answer✔- universal phenomenon that influences the way we think,
feel, and behave
- Florence nightingale
- Patricia Brenner with Judith Wrubel's definition
Patricia Brenner and Judith Wrubel's definition of caring - answer✔- the essence of excellent
nursing is caring
- caring means things matter to people
- caring determines what matters to a person
- personal concern for another person, event, or thing that provides motivation and direction for
people to care for
Compassion: - answer✔desire/motivation to help others that comes from the human response to
suffering of others, motivates people to go out of their way to help physical, spiritual, or
emotional hurts and pains of others
Caring Tough - answer✔provides comfort
Contact Touch - answer✔nonverbal communication that provides comfort and security
ex: holding hand, back rub
Noncontact touch - answer✔eye contact
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Protective touch - answer✔used to protect pt
ex: prevent pt from falling
Task-oriented Touch - answer✔used when performing a procedure or task
Comforting: - answer✔acts toward another individual that displays both an emotional and
physical calm
Empathy: - answer✔knowing, understanding, and accepting a person's feelings and the ability to
sense the person's private world
Ethics of Care - answer✔- concerned with relationship between the pt and the nurse and the
attitude of each toward the other
- places the nurse as the pt's advocate who solves ethical dilemmas by creating a relationship
- listening: creates trust
- Prescence
- therapeutic: desired benefit of meds, tx, or procedure
Attributes and Criteria of Caring - answer✔- caring is central/vital to nursing practice
- caring is relational
- caring appreciated the uniqueness of individuals
- caring contributes to the health and well-being of pts
- caring is a product of culture, values, experiences, and relationships with others
Leininger's Transcultural Caring - answer✔- care is the essence and central unifying and
dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines
- around the world care helps to protect, develop, nurture, and provide survival
- takes into account values, needs, culture
Watson's Transpersonal Caring - answer✔- conscious intention to care promotes healing and
wholeness
- rejects the disease orientation to health care
- care before cure
- emphasizes nurse pt relationship
