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Input- any material that enters a system
Throughput- processing a system and converting
material
Output- end result or product
Components of system
Evaluation- measure success or failure of output
Feedback- info given back into system-- helps
determine if purpose or end result has been
achieved
An open system with subsystems. The whole is
different than and greater than the sum of its parts.
What type of system is a
All the subsystems of the hospital, nurses, doctors,
hospital?
food, etc have to work well together creating a
result they could not create on their own.
Supra system the larger environment outside the system
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physiological
safety
Maslow's Hierarchy of
love/belonging
Needs
self-esteem
self-actualization
There is continuous exchange of energy and
Dynamic nature of
information. A change in one part of the system
system
causes a change in other parts of the system.
Homeostasis is a Dynamic balance achieved by
effectively functioning open systems
It is attained by coordinated responses of organ
Basic Nursing Concept 1:
systems that automatically compensate for
Homeostasis, how does it
environmental changes
apply to nursing?
If adaptation is unsuccessful, disequilibrium may
occur and may lead to the development of illness or
release
What type of system is a Each individual is an open system with human needs
person? and numerous subsystems.
Can either promote or interfere with homeostasis
and well-being of individuals.
Basic Nursing Concept 2:
In Maslow's hierarchy, there is a dynamic interaction
Environment. How does it
between a person's needs (internal) and the
apply to nursing?
satisfaction of those needs (often environmentally
determined)
Family systems
Cultural systems
Types of environmental Social systems
systems Poverty (one of the most influential determinants of
health)
Community, National and World systems
Making Judgements about a culture that are
Ethnocentrism
generally negative.
Nursing Concept 3: How Health is not an absolute state, it is changing day to
is Health a Continuum? day (it is a continuum).
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