Nursing Discipline 1-exam 1
Accountability - ans-Being answerable for your actions
-Maintaining your fitness to practice
-Promptness, planning, preparation
-Reporting unsafe practice
Acknowledging limitations - ans-Knowing when to ask for help/support
-Be honest if you are unsure of somethi...
Nursing Discipline 1-exam 1
Accountability - ans-Being answerable for your actions
-Maintaining your fitness to practice
-Promptness, planning, preparation
-Reporting unsafe practice
Acknowledging limitations - ans-Knowing when to ask for help/support
-Be honest if you are unsure of something and ask/reflect
Being a caring student nurse - ansBe there to care for your client and work together with them to
achieve wellness
Can caring be taught/learned? - ansResearch shows that people who have not experienced caring in
their lives often have difficulty displaying caring behaviours- but these can be developed
Canadian nurses association code of ethics - ansPrimary nursing values
-Providing safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care
-Promoting health and wellbeing
-Promoting and respecting informed decision making
-Preserving dignity
-Maintaining privacy and confidentiality
-Promoting justice
-Being accountable
Caring - ans"Is concern about a person, events, projects, and things" (Perry, 2014, p.262) and provides
motivation
,Caring nursing behaviours - ans-Touch (some people not comfortable with touch)
-Listening
-Knowing the patient
-Spiritual caring
-Family care
Challenges of caring - ans-High Pt acuity
-More Pts
-Horizontal Violence and burnout
-Technology "It has become appalling obvious that technology has exceeded our humanity"
Challenges to client centred care - ans-Limited resources
-Staff attitudes
-Use of routines and standardization of care
-Systems within the hospital
*This is when the healthcare provider believes they know what it best for the client
Characteristics that predict separation/divorce - ans*Criticism
*Contempt
*Defensiveness
*Stonwalling
Chronic activation of SAM and HPA - ansCan cause lower immunity and can put the client at a great
risk of developing physical, psychological or behavioural challenges
, Client-centered practice - ansInvolving the client at all stages of assessment, from initial framing of
the activities in which the client wishes to engage.
Collaboration - ansA process of working together towards a common goal (to benefit patient)
Confidentiality - ansHealth care providers are legally and ethically obligated to keep information
about clients confidential (duty to maintain privacy)
Context - ansIs the circumstances in which the nurse-client partnership is occurring. It is in the
moment and therefor is dynamic and continuously changing
Coping with stress - ans"Coping is the active process of managing taxing circumstances, expending
effort to solve personal problems and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize,
reduce, or tolerate stress or conflict" (Baier & Hegadoren, 2014, p. 474)
AKA; skills and behaviours used to reduce stress
Coping with stress in a hospital - ans-Bring familiar objects with you
-Relaxation (music, deep breathing)
-Dont be afraid to ask for what you need
-Distraction (journal writing)
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