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| - group of related ideas statements or concepts |
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| – abstract ideas or mental images of phenomena or reality |
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| – a pattern of shared understandings or assumptions about reality |
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| – fields of study in which the central focus is performance of a professional role |
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| – the use of substantiation or evidence in making clinical decisions |
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| – 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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| – all verbal and non-verbal activities used in communication |
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| – health and health care are influenced by elements of social structure; human caring varies among cultures in its expression, processes and patterns |
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| Universality theoryfeature of nursing |
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| – Leininger – care is the essence of nursing and the dominant, distinctive and unifying |
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| - the practice of caring is central to nursing and is the unifying focus for practice |
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| - Imogene King – dynamic interacting systems |
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| – Neuman – model based on individual’s relationship to stress, reaction to it, and reconstitution factors leading to adaptaion |
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| – multidisciplinary guidelines for client care designed to achieve predetermined outcomes |
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| – the skills and learning commonly possessed by members of a profession |
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| Quality assurance program |
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| – ongoing systematic process to promote excellence in health care provided to clients |
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| – evaluation and improvement of the quality of health care based on internal assessment by health care professionals and increasing public awareness |
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| – focus on demonstrable changes in client health status as a result of nursing care |
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