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Aims:
-promote health
-prevent illness
-restore health
-facilitate coping with disability or death
how to meet these aims:
-cognitive skills
-technical skills
-interpersonal skills
-ethical/legal skills |
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| Sources and Types of Knowledge |
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Sources:
-traditional: passed down
-authoritative: from experts
-scientific: research based
types:
-science: research and scientific method
-philosophy: values and beliefs
-process: more than just tasks |
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-technology is great but you still need to think
-electronic health records and barcode for medication administration
-clients use of the internet |
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-purpose is to lead health care providers to effective decision making to guide the use of limited resources, control costs, and improve quality
-get our knowledge from clinical expertise, research evidence, patient values, and clinical data and history |
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| Steps of Evidence Based Practice |
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1.ask: identify research question
2.acquire: search to identify whats known and where the gaps are
3.appraise: evaluate for validity and applicability to practice
4.apply: make recommendations and apply them to nursing practice
5.assess: evaluate applications of findings, outcome, and revelance |
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-animism: everything in nature is alive with the potential to do good or evil
-good (health) and evil (illness) spirits
-medicine man (healer)
-dont underestimate moms |
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| Greek Civilizations (1200 BC - 600 AD) |
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-temples are center of care
-home and community care present
-nurse midwives |
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| Christian Periods (1st century) |
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-deaconesses: first organizational visits to patients
-much care carried out by churches
-hospitals built
-respect for nurses |
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-monastaries and convents closed leaving few to care for sick
-women criminals served as nurses instead of going to jail |
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-Florence Nightingale: established first training program for nurses
-Civil War: recognized need for educated nurses; schools were based on apprenticeship |
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World War II:
-emphasis on education for women because men were at war
-increased need for nurses
-schools of nursing found in university settings
-increased professional view of nursing |
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-Clara Barton: established the Red Cross
-Mary Mahoney: first African American nurse
-Lavinia Dock: nursing activist; helped get women the right to vote
-Lillian Wald: found Henry Street settlement (public street nursing)
-Margaret Sanger: found planned parenthood
-Mary Breckenridge: began frontier nursing service and midwives school
-Richards: first trained nurse in U.S. and first to document patient records |
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-WHO: "state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
-ANA: "experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness and illness and may occur in the presence of absence of injury"
-ideas about health: body beautiful, not having illness, something you can buy, ideal physical and mental well being, ability of the soul to cope |
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| -an active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle that promotes health in the physical, psycho-social, and spiritual realms |
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-nursing tries to promote conditions that promote optimal health
-clients assume responsibility for health
-use complementary and alternative interventions (music, places, and touch) |
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| Community Based Health Care |
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-community is one of the pillars of WMU nursing curriculum
-model of care that "reaches everyone in the community, focuses on primary rather than institutional or acute care, provides knowledge about health and health promotion and models of care to the community"
-care takes place where client is found
-important to respect individual and family and incorporate their values into care |
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-genetic
-physiologic
-age
-environment
-lifestyle
-health habits |
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-acute illness: short; symptoms appear abruptly and subsides quickly
-chronic illness: lasts longer than 6 months; can affect function in any dimension |
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| Internal Illness Behavior |
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-perception of illness
-nature of illness:
-acute: more likely to seek care
-chronic: not motivated to seek care
-coping skills |
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| External Illness Behavior |
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-visibility of symptoms
-social groups
-cultural background
-economics |
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-universal phenomenon that influences the way people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another
-caring is offering yourself |
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-being there: physical presence as well as communication and understanding
-being with: being available to client
-attitude of openness and understanding |
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-leads to a connection between nurse and patient
-task oriented touch (physical assessment)
-caring touch when hold patients hand, give back rub, position patient
-protective touch (keep safe)
-cultural issues
-developmental issues |
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-one of the most difficult things to do
-pay attention to verbal and non verbal communication
-listen for the meaning |
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-when a person finds balance between own life goals, values, and beliefs and those of others
-offense sense of connectedness
-intrapersonally: yourself
-interpersonally: others
-transpersonally: higher being/ God |
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