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A comprehensive overview of nursing fundamentals, covering key definitions, professional roles, and health models. It explores the historical contributions of prominent nurses, examines contemporary challenges in the field, and delves into the principles of health promotion and prevention. The document also includes questions and exercises to reinforce learning and assess understanding.
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American Nurses Association (ANA) definition of nursing is - Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations The International Council of Nurses definition of nursing is - Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups, and communities, sick or well, and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health; prevention of illness; and the care of ill, disabled, and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles. What do the two definition of nursing by ANA and international's council of nursing definition have in common? - Both definitions support the prominence and importance that nursing holds in providing safe, patient-centered health care to the global community. In professional roles of nursing what is autonomy? - Autonomy is an essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders. Example would be making the independent decision to implement coughing and deep breathing exercise to clear the lungs and promote healthy breathing for a patient who recently had major surgery. In professional roles of nursing what is a caregiver? - As a caregiver, you help patients maintain and regain health and find their maximum level of independent function through the healing process. A patient's health care needs include the patient's emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. In professional roles of nursing what is a patients advocate? - As a patient advocate you protect your patient's human and legal rights and help patients assert those rights when needed. An example- You provide additional information to help a patient decide whether to accept a treatment, or you find a interpreter to help family members communicate their concerns. In professional roles of nursing what is an educator? - An educator you explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for routine care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self care activities, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate the patients progress in learning. Teaching can be formal or informal. Always use teaching methods that match your patient's capabilities and needs, and incorporate other resources, such as the family, in teaching plans.
In the professional roles of nursing what is an manager? - As a manager, you will establish an environment for collaborative patient-centered care to provide safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes. A manager uses appropriate leadership styles to create nursing environment for patients and staff that reflects the mission and values of the health care organization. What is patient centered care? - Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs. example- involving family etc Who is Florence Nightingale? - - 1st nursing philosopher: viewed nursing as having "charge of somebody's health" based on the knowledge of "how to put the body in such a state to be free from diseases or to recover from disease." Health maintenance and restoration.
Healthy people 2030 objective is - to set data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Healthy people 2030 social determinants of health are - the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. Healthy people 2030 social determinants of health involves - - Economic Stability
What are the two models of health and illness? - 1. Maslow (hierarchy of needs) which is interrelationships of needs and personal priorities.
In health ethics values clarification is - •Ethical dilemmas almost always occur in the presence of conflicting values. •To resolve ethical dilemmas, one needs to distinguish among values, facts, and opinion Basic Terms in Health Ethics: Autonomy - commitment to include patients in decisions Basic terms in health ethics: beneficence - taking positive actions to help others example is giving a patient a warm bath Basic terms in health: Nonmaleficence - Avoidance of harm or hurt. example would be putting restraints safely on a patient Basic terms in health: Justice - Being fair Basic terms in health: fidelity - is trust. AN example is keeping your word to a patient/ writing a incident report on yourself. Professional Nursing Code of Ethics principle - - A set of guiding principles that all members of a profession accept