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