Taylor Chapter's 1,3,4,5

state of optimal functioning or well-being

to be given a license to practice nursing in a state or province after successfully meeting requirments

laws established to regulate nursing practice

profession that focuses on the holistic person receiving health care services and provides a unique contribution to the prevention of illness and the maintenance of health

five-step systematic method for giving patient care ; involves assess, diagnosing, planning implementing, and evaluating

an occupation that meets specific criteria including a well defined body of specific and unique knowledge, a code of ethics and standards, ongoing research, and autonomy

process allowing a nurse to apply for and be endorsed as a registered nurse by another state

rules or guidelines allowing nurses to carry out professional roles, serving as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the institution where the health care is given

protection, promotion, and optimization, of health and abilites, prevention of injury and illness, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, commnites, and populations

the patient

- to promote health
- to prevent illness
- to restore health
- to facilitate coping with disability or death

use of knowledge, skills, and critical thinking to give care in a variety of traditional and expanding nursing roles

cognitive, technical, interpersonal, ethical/legal skills

- evidence based practice EBP
- community-based nursing
- decreased length of hospital stay
- aging population
- increase in chronic care conditions
- independent nursing practice
- culturally competent care

belief that good and evil spirits bring health and illness

- medicine men treated disease by chanting, inspiring fear, ect.
- animism
- nurse portrayed as mother caring for family

- belief that illness was caused by sins
- temples were centers of medical care
- priests as physician
- nurse viewed as slave carrying out menial tasks

- Focus on religion replaced by focus on warfare
- exploration and expansion of knowledge
- nursing considered disgraceful

- social reforms changed roles of women
- hospital schools organized
- male dominance
- nursing became respected occupation
- modern nursing education founded by Florence Nightingale

- explosion of knowledge in medicine and technology
- efforts to upgrade nursing education
- women more assertive and independent

- varied health care settings developed
- nursing broadened in all areas
- nursing became a profession

- emphasis on evidence based practice
- specific body of knowledge was developed
- nursing research was conducted and published

- stressed need for continuing education
- two components; health and illness
- nutrition important to health
- occupational and recreational therapy for sick people
- maintaining accurate recorde
- nursing research

- defined nursing as art and science
- differentiated nursing from medicine
- role of nurse in meeting individual needs
- standards for hospital management
- established nursing as respected occupation

lower-level needs: physiologic, safety and security
higher level needs: love and belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization

- explains human behavior in terms of basic requirements for survival and growth
- prioritize patient needs
- serves as a guide to help meet patients physiological and psychosocial needs

safe, environment to facilitate growth, development, and rest/recuperation

financial aid/situation

raising children

support, emotional comfort

transmits beliefs, values, attitudes, coping mechanisms

lifestyle, psychosocial, environmental, developmental, biologic
- as a nurse you must also help the family to meet their basic human needs

a specific population or group of people living in the same geographic area under similar regulations and having common values, interests, and needs

- social support systems
- community health care structure
- economic resources
- environmental factors
- nursing in the community

state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, not merely the absence of disease

the unique response of a person to a disease

an active state, oriented toward maximizing the potential of the individual

measures a person's level of health on a graduated scale

the interaction of the agent, host, & environment creating risk factors that must be examined

illustrates how people react to their environment as they pursue health

concerned with what people believe to be true about their health

- rapid onset of symptoms that lasts a short period of time

permanent change, irreversable alterations in normal anatomy and physiology with a long period of care and rehabilitation required

1. experiencing symptoms
2. assuming the sick role
3. assuming the dependent role
4. achieving recovery and rehabilitaion

- incorporate knowledge of the acuity of the situation in order to develop appropriate care plan

- genetics
- sex
- age
- education
- experience

- work
- family
- lifestyle
- health behavior

- economy
- culture
- social conditions
- environment

- facilitate health behavior changes
- use behavior change strategies
- promote healthy lifestyle bahaviors

- provide info
- identify supports to attain goals
- appropriate referrals

- identify readiness of patient
- help set timelines
- reinforce steps, encourage

- stress reduction
- adequate rest & sleep
- nutritious diet
- exercise
- check- ups

intelectual, environmental, spiritual, sociocultural, physical, emotional

addresses the needs of healthy patients to promote health and prevent disease with specific protections

focuses on early identification of individuals or communities, experiencing illness, providing treatment, and conducting activities that help prevent a worsening health status
- screenings, examinations, family counseling

aims to prevent long-term consequences of a chronic illness or disability and to support optimal functioning
- meds, treatment, therapy

pathologic change in the structure or function of the body or mind

period in chronic illness when the symptoms of the disease reappear

care that takes the whole person into account

frequency that a disease occurs

number of deaths

period in a chronic illness where a person is not experiencing symptoms

something that increases a person's chances of illness or injury

research designed to directly influence or improve medical practice

designed to generate and refine theory; findings are often not directly useful in practice

abstract ideas that are formed s impressions from the environment and formed into symbols of reality

set of concepts, along with the statements that arrange the concepts into an understandable pattern

information

cognitive process in which one examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or ideas

nursing care supported by scientific rationale

guidelines written by a panel of experts that synthesize information from multiple sources and recommend best practices to treat patients with a disease, symptom, or disability

cognitive process in which a specific action or idea is identified and then conclusions about general ideas are made

knowledgable, voluntary permission obtained from a patient to preform a specific test or procedure

research to improve the care of people in the clinical setting and to study people and the nursing profession, including education, policy development, ethics, and nursing history

differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activites by serving the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling, desired outcomes of nursing care practices

study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes we use to construct and develop our perceptions of life

series of actions, changes, or functions to bring about a result

method of research conducted to gain insight by discovering meanings

research involving the concepts of basic and applied research

one of the strongest sources of evidence for EBP; summarizing finding from multiple studies