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Unit 1 Ch 4
Unit 1 - Ch 4 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
09/10/2013

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Nursing practice is based on..
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..a body of knowledge that is continually changing with new discoveries and innovations
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Nursing care is..
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..delivered with compassion, caring and respect for each patient's dignity and personhood.
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What is Nursing?
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Optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering, advocacy in care.
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Florence Nightingale
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Made connection between environment and sickness.

 

Sewage causes cholera and dysent.

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Clara Barton
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Provided basic needs in the military
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Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Made one accessible place for care
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Mother Bickerdyke (Mary Ann Ball)
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Ambulance
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Harriet Tubman
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Got the slaves help
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Mary Mahoney
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Was the first colored trained nurse, taugh about cultural diversity
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Isabel Hampton Robb
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Formed the nurses association (ANA)
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A profession has these characteristics:
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Requires extended education, has a body of knowledge, provides a specific service, has autonomy, incorporates a code of ethics.
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Continuing education
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formalized, organized educational programs offered by universities, hospitals, state and professional nursing associations and health care institutions
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In-service education
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programs held in institution designed to increase the knowledge, skills, and competencies of health care professionals employed by the institution
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Autonomy
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Initiation of independant nursing intervention, freedon from external control, inclusion of patient decisions of care, protects their independance
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Accountability
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Responsible for type and quality of nursing care you provide, knowledge and skill
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Caregiving
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healing through personal action and interpersonal skills, measures for healthcare needs, family sets goals and helps meet them
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Advocacy
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Protect human and legal rights, act on behalf of the patient to secure and defend rights
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Education
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Formal and informal to the family
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Communication
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Must be interdisciplinary
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A theory consists of:
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Concepts, Definitions, Assumptions/Propositions
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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
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Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
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Erickson's Stages of Development
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Trust vs Mistrust

Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt

Initiative vs Guilt

Industry vs Inferiority

Identity vs Role Confusion

Intimacy vs Isolation

Generativity vs Stagnation

Ego Integrity vs Despair

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Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
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5.  Self actualization

4.  Self-Esteem

3.  Love and Belonging

2.  Safety and Security

1.  Physiological Needs

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Domain
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The perspective of a profession; it provides the subject, central concepts, values and beliefs, phenomena of interest, and central problems of a discipline.
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Paradigm
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A pattern of thought that is useful in describing the domain of a discipline.
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Phenomenon
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The term, description, or label given to describe an idea or responses about an event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of situations.
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Concept
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Combine to form a theory; can be simple or complex and relate to an object or event that comes from idividual perceptual experiences
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Grand Theory
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Systematic and broad in scope, complex, and therefore require further specification through research.
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Middle-range Theory
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More limited in scope and less abstract
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Descriptive Theory
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The first level of theory development
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Prescriptive theory
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Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, describe the conditions under which the prescription occurs, and predict the consequences.
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Interdisciplinary theory
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Explains a systematic view of a phenomenon specific to the discipline of inquiry
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Input
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The data or information that comes from a patient's assessment
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Output
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The end product of a system

 

Nursing- whether the patient's health status improves, declines, or remains stable as a result of nursing care

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Feedback
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Serves to inform a system about how it functions
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Content
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The product and information obtained from the system
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