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TRANS to RN: Week 2
Question | Answer |
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Theory | system of major ideas proposed to explain a given phenomenon |
Conceptual framework | group of related ideas statements or concepts |
Paradigm | a pattern of shared understandings or assumptions about reality |
Client | or person – recipient of nursing care |
Environment | internal and external surroundings affecting the client |
Health | degree of wellness or well-being the client experiences |
Nursing | attributes, characteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care on behalf of the client |
Nursing theory | guides knowledge development, directs education, research and practice |
Self-care | Dorothea Orem – based on self-care, self-care agency, self-care requisites and therapeutic self-care demand |
Goal Attainment | Imogene King – dynamic interacting systems |
Adaptation model | Sr Callista Roy – the process and outcome whereby the thinking and feeling person uses conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration |
Human Caring Theory | the practice of caring is central to nursing and is the unifying focus for practice |
Human becoming | Rosemary Parse – emphasizes how individuals choose and bear responsibility for patterns of personal health |
Unitary Human Beings theory | Martha Rogers – person is an irreducible whole, dynamic energy field in continuous exchange with the environment |
Governance | establishment and maintenance of social, political economic standards to control professional practice |
Professional organization | provides professional governance, differentiates profession from an occupation |
American Nurses Association | the national professional organization for nurses - advances the nursing profession by establishing standards of practice, promoting welfare of nurses, projecting a positive image, and by political activity |
National League for Nursing | objective is to foster development and improvement of nursing services and education |
International Council of Nurses | international organization to represent nursing worldwide |
Sigma Theta Tau | international honor society for nursing – membership based on academic achievement |
National Student Nurses Association | official preprofessional organization for students |