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Foundations Midterm Exam Jersey Collegeadvocate ✔️Ans - the protection of human or legal rights and the
securing of care for all patients based on the belief that patients have the
right to make informed decisions about their health and lives
caregiver ✔️Ans - The provision of care to patients that combines both
the art and the science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional,
intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse
integrates the roles of communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher,
advocate, and collaborator to promote wellness through activities that
prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping with disability or death.
The role of caregiver is the primary role of the nurse.
4 Nursing Aims ✔️Ans - 1. promotes health
2. prevent illness/disease
3. restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death(die with dignity)
Florence Nightingale ✔️Ans - Established sanitary nursing care units.
Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
nursing profession criteria ✔️Ans - well defined body of specific and
unique knowledge
strong service oriented
recognized authority by a professional group
Code of Ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
Standards of Nursing Practice ✔️Ans - allow nurses to carry out
professional roles, serving as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the
institution where health care is provided
Nurse Practice Act ✔️Ans - laws established in each state in the US to
regulate the practice of nursing
,Nursing Process ✔️Ans - Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Used by the nurse to identify the patients health care needs and strengths,
to establish and carry out a care plan to meet those needs, and to evaluate
the effectiveness of the plan
Sources of Knowledge ✔️Ans - Traditional-passed down from
generation to generation
Authoritative-comes from an expert
Scientific-implying through research (scientific method)
General Systems Theory ✔️Ans - how to break whole things into parts
and then to learn how the parts work together in systems
Adaptation Theory ✔️Ans - defines adaptation as the adjustment of
living matter to other living things and to environmental conditions
developmental theory ✔️Ans - process of growth and development of
humans as orderly and predictable, beginning with conception and ending
with death
nursing theory ✔️Ans - differentiates nursing from other disciplines and
activities by serving the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and
controlling desired outcomes of nursing care practices
deductive reasoning ✔️Ans - general to specific
inductive reasoning ✔️Ans - specific to general
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories ✔️Ans - Person (patient)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Sister Callista Roy ✔️Ans - Nursing interventions are needed when
individuals demonstrate ineffective adaptive responses; adaptive modes.
, adaptation model, relationships between persons, universe, god,
Adaptation model: assistance with the adaptation to stressors to facilitate
the integration process of the client. Theory helps the "biospsychosocial"
client modify external stimuli, adaptation will occur
evidence-based practice ✔️Ans - in nursing is a problem solving
approach to making clinical decisions using the best evidence available
PICOT format ✔️Ans - Patient population
Intervention or issue of interest
Comparison intervention
Outcome
Time frame
holistic health care ✔️Ans - care that addresses the many dimensions
that comprise the whole person- the nurse must understand and respect
each persons own definition of health and responses to illness
acute illness ✔️Ans - has a rapid onset of symptoms and lasts only a
relatively short time
chronic illness ✔️Ans - irreversible illness that causes permanent
physical impairment and requires long-term health care
chronic disease ✔️Ans - heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes,
obesity, arthritis
Illness Behaviors ✔️Ans - actions taken by a person who feels sick and
indulges in the behavior for the purpose of defining the state of his or her
health and for discovering suitable remedies
Illness behaviors ✔️Ans - Stage 1: Experiencing symptoms
Stage 2: Assuming the sick role
Stage 3: Assuming a dependent role
Stage 4: Achieving recovery and rehabilitation
The human dimensions ✔️Ans - Physical-genetic inheritence, race, sex
Emotional- the mind effects, stress
Intellectual-educational background
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