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key terms
Question | Answer |
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conceptual framework | a group of related ideas, statements or concepts |
concept | abstract ideas or mental images of phenomena or reality |
paradigm | a pattern of shared ujnderstandings or assumptions about reality |
practice discipline | fields of study in which central focus is performance of a professional role |
evidence-based practice | the use of substination or evidence in makeing clinical decisions |
client/person | recipient of nursing care |
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 |
interpersonal skills | all verbal and non-verbal activities used in communication |
cultural care diversity | health and health care are influenced by elements of social structure; human caring varies among cultures in its expression processes and patterns |
universality theory Leininger | care is the essence of nujrsing and the dominant, distinctive and unifying feature of nursing |
human caring theory | the practice of caring is cental to nursing and is the unifying focus for practice |
goal attainment theory Imogene King | dynamic interaction systems |
systems model Neuman | model based on individual's relationship to stress, reaction to it, and reconstitution factors leading to adaptation |
critical pathways | multidisciplinary guidelines for client care designed to achieve predetermined outcomes |
standards of care | the skills and learning commonly possessed aby members of a profession |
quality assurance program | ongoing systematic process to promate excellence on health care provided to clients |
quality improvement | evaluation and inprovement of the quality of health care vased on internal assessment by health care professionals and increasing public awareness |
outcome evaluation | focus on demonstratable changed in client health status as a result of nursing care. |