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Foundations 1 Exam

Rush Nursing Foundations 1 Exam

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Working definition of nursing Art & Science, based on theoretical, philosophical, ethical and research foundations.
Founder of modern nursing? Florence Nightingale
What was FN's philosophy? Search for truth, environmental
Who founded the American Red Cross? Clara Barton
Who was first African American Nurse? Mary Mahoney
What did the ANA write about in 1965? Defined nursing as a profession.
What is nursing theory? A framework for practice and education
WHo accredits nursing programs? NLNAC
What is Patricia Benner's theory of caring? Essence of excellent nursing practice. Caring creates potential for coping, allows for the giving and receiving of help There is a relationship between health, illness, and disease.
What is Madeleine Leininger's claim to fame? Transcultural perspective on nursing. Expressions of care vary across cultures.
What is Jean Watson's theory? A theory of caring called Transpersonal Caring, rejects the disease model, sees caring as a moral ideal and an end in itself. She places care before cure. Caring gets a spiritual dimension..
What is Kristen Swanson's theory of caring? Includes the following processes: Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, maintaining belief.
What is ethnocentrism? Thinking that one's own culture is the only correct way to view the world.
What are the 3 dimensions of space in western culture? Intimate: 0-18 inches, personal zone: 18 inches to 3 feet, social or public zone, 3 to 6 feet.
What cultures have present time orientation (as opposed to American future oriented time orientation?) Native Americans, Mexican Americans
What cultural group has a past time orientation? Chinese-Americans.
What cultural group has a higher incidence of hypertension? African Americans.
What did the book say were some characteristics of Hispanic patients? Need for group togetherness, family oriented, present time orientation, believe in control by external forces. Health is a state of equilibrium with "hot, cold, wet, and dry" components.
What disease is significantly higher in Hispanics? Diabetes mellitus
What are the beliefs about space by Asian Americans? Intimate zone activities are only done in private. There is no physical contact in public.
What are the 4 types of nursing theories? Grand thories, Middle range theories, Descriptive theories, Prescriptive Theories.
What are grand theories? Broad in scope, complex. They require further specification through research before they can be fully tested.
What is an example of a grand theory? Parse's theory of human becoming.
What are Middle-Range Theories? More limited in scope and less abstract than grand theories, such as Mishel's theory of uncertainty in illness.
What are descriptive theories? Those that are 1st level of theory development, describe phenomenon.
What are theoretical models? Global ideas about individuals, groups, situations.
What are the 4 linkages of interest in the nursing paradigm? Person, health, environment/situation, nursing.
What is Hildegard Peplau's theory? Developed for psychiatric nursing, characterized by 4 stages, orientation, identification, explanation, resolution.
What is Virginia Henderson's theory of nursing? Assisting the individual, sick or well, in activities they would do if they were able,
What is Faye Abdellah's nursing theory? Nurse is a problem solver who provides care for the whole individual.
What is Dorothea Orem's nursing theory? Self-care theory. Nurses can help their clients toward self-care.
What is Sister Callista Roy's nursing theory? Roy adaptation model. Sees patients as adaptive systems,
What is Martha Roger's theory? Individual is an energy field in interaction with the environment.
What are the 3 models of care? Biomedical, biopsychosocial, and relationship-centered.
What is the biomedical model of care? Health is the absence of disease, and medical interventions will provide cure.
What is the biopsychosocial model of care? Considers psychological and social aspects of illness, and you cannot treat disease without treating the person.
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