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Chapter 8
Nursing concepts fscj nw 2012
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Nursing
Undergraduate 3
10/06/2011

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A number of strategies have potential for creating work environments that enable nurses to demonstrate more caring behaviors. Some of these include:

  • 1.Increasing working hours
  • 2.Increases in monetary gain
  • 3.Flexibility, autonomy, and improved staffing
  • 4.Increased input concerning nursing functions from physicians
Definition
  • 3.Flexibility, autonomy, and improved staffing
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A nurse demonstrates caring by helping family members:

  • 1.Become active participants in care
  • 2.Provide activities of daily living (ADLs)
  • 3.Remove themselves from personal care
  • 4.Make health care decisions for the client
Definition
  • 1.Become active participants in care
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A nurse hears a colleague tell a student nurse she never touches the clients unless she is performing a procedure or doing an assessment. The nurse tells the colleague that:

1.She does not touch the clients either

2.Touch is a type of verbal communication

3.There is never a problem with using touch

4.Touch forms a connection between nurse and client

Definition

4.Touch forms a connection between nurse and client

Term
Because illness is the human experience of loss or dysfunction, any treatment or intervention given without consideration of its meaning to the individual is likely to be _____.
Definition
worthless
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Benner and Wrubel Caring Is Primary Theory
Definition
A holistic theory of nursing. “Caring creates possibility.” Benner described the essence of excellent nursing practice, which is caring.
Term
Caring helps nurses identify successful ____, and this concern then guides future caregiving.
Definition
interventions
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Caring is a universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people ___, ___, and ___ in relation to one another.
Definition
think, feel and behave.
Term
Characteristics of a Caring Nurse
Definition
A calm presence, parallel eye contact, attention to the client's concerns, and physical closeness all express a person-centered, comforting approach.
Term

Clients' perceptions are important because health care:

  • 1.Always acts in the best interest of the client
  • 2.Is placing greater emphasis on client satisfaction
  • 3.Is under investigation for misappropriation of funds
  • 4.Is carefully watched and regulated by the federal government
Definition
  • 2.Is placing greater emphasis on client satisfaction
Term
Explain the relationship between knowing a client and clinical decision making.
Definition
To know a client means that the nurse avoids assumptions, focuses on the client, and engages in a caring relationship with the client that reveals information and cues that facilitate critical thinking and clinical judgments
Term
Family Care
Definition
Recognize the family as an important resource and know the family almost as thoroughly as one knows a client.
Success with nursing interventions often depends on the family's willingness to share information about the client, the family's acceptance and understanding of therapies, whether the interventions fit with the family's daily practices, and whether the family supports and delivers the therapies recommended.
Term

Helping a new mother through the birthing experience demonstrates which of the five caring behaviors?

  • 1.Knowing
  • 2.Enabling
  • 3.Doing for
  • 4.Being with
  • 5.Maintaining belief
Definition
  • 2.Enabling
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Listening is not only “taking in” what a client says; it also includes: 

  • 1. Incorporating the views of the physician
  • 2. Correcting any errors in the client's understanding
  • 3. Injecting the nurse's personal views and statements
  • 4. Interpreting and understanding what the client means
Definition
  • 4. Interpreting and understanding what the client means
Term
Madeleine Leininger Essence of Nursing and Health Theory
Definition

Leininger's offers a transcultural perspective to nursing; she stresses the importance of nurses' understanding cultural caring behaviors.

Even though human caring is a universal phenomenon, the expressions, processes, and patterns of caring vary among cultures

Term

Mr. Kline is fearful of upcoming surgery and a possible cancer diagnosis. He discusses his love for the Bible with Jada, his nurse, and she recommends a favorite Bible verse. Another nurse tells Jada that there is no place in nursing for spiritual caring. Jada replies:

  • 1. Spiritual care should be left to a professional
  • 2. You are correct, religion is a personal decision
  • 3. Nurses should not force their religious beliefs on clients
  • 4. Spiritual, mind, and body connections can affect health
Definition
  • 4. Spiritual, mind, and body connections can affect health
Term

Of the five caring processes, which describes “knowing” the client?

  • 1.Anticipating the client's cultural preferences
  • 2.Determining the client's physician preference
  • 3.Gathering task-oriented information during assessment
  • 4.Establishing an enhanced understanding of the client's needs
Definition
  • 4.Establishing an enhanced understanding of the client's needs
Term

Presence involves a person-to-person encounter that:

  • 1.Enables clients to care for self
  • 2.Provides personal care to a client
  • 3.Conveys a closeness and a sense of caring
  • 4.Describes being in close contact with a client
Definition
  • 3.Conveys a closeness and a sense of caring that involves “being there” and “being with” clients.
Term
Spiritual Caring
Definition
client and the nurse come to know one another so that both move toward a healing relationship by doing the following:
• Mobilizing hope for the client and for the nurse
• Finding an interpretation or understanding of illness, symptoms, or emotions that is acceptable to the client
• Assisting the client in using social, emotional, or spiritual resources
• Recognizing that caring relationships connect us human to human, spirit to spirit.
Term
Strategies to reverse the current nursing shortage
Definition
The strategies include
• greater flexibility into the work environment structure
• rewarding experienced nurse mentors
• improving nurse staffing
• providing nurses with autonomy over their practice
Term
Swanson's theory of caring includes five caring processes:
Definition
knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief.
Term
The most important thing for a beginning nurse to recognize is that knowing a client is more than simply gathering data about the client's clinical signs and condition; it requires ____ .
Definition
establishing a relationship with the client.
Term
Through ____ listening, you begin to truly know your clients and what is important to them.
Definition
active
Term
True listening leads to
Definition
truly knowing and responding to what really matters to the client and family.
Term
Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring
Definition
In Watson's view, caring becomes almost spiritual. A holistic model for nursing that suggests that a conscious intention to care promotes healing and wholeness. The model is transformative, because the relationship influences both the nurse and the client, for better or for worse.
Term
When a nurse establishes ____, eye contact, body language, voice tone, listening, and having a positive and encouraging attitude act together to create an openness and understanding.
Definition
presence
Term
caring touch
Definition
form of nonverbal communication (e.g. hold a client's hand, give a back massage, gently position a client, or participate in a conversation)
Term
protective touch
Definition
used to protect the nurse and/or client. The client views it either positively or negatively. (e.g preventing a fall or distancing yourself from a client when unable to cope with suffering)
Term
task-orientated touch
Definition
touch when performing a task or procedure
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therapeutic benefit of listening to clients
Definition
helps create a mutual relationship.
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