Levine Flashcards

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 An ongoing process of change in which patient maintains his integrity within the realities of environment
 Achieved through the “frugal, economic, contained and controlled use of environmental resources by individual in his or her best interest”

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Adaptation

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 Exist when the interaction or constant adaptations to the environment permits the assurance of integrity
 Promoted by use of conservation principle

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Wholeness

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 The product of adaptation
 “Keeping together “of the life systems or the wholeness of the individual
 Achieving a balance of energy supply and demand that is with in the unique biological realities of the individual

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Conservation

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 A holistic being who constantly strives to preserve wholeness and integrity
 A unique individual in unity and integrity, feeling, believing, thinking and whole system of system

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Person

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5
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o A state of energy sparing that also provide the necessary baselines for a multitude of synchronized physiological and psychological factors

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Homeostasis

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o Describe the pattern of adaptation, which permit the individual’s body to sustain its well being with the vast changes which encroach upon it from the environment
• A stabilized flow rather than a static state

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Homeorrhesis

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o Aspect of the world that individual are able to intercept

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Preconceptual

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o Elements that may physically affects individuals but not perceived by hem: radiation, micro-organism and pollution

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Operational

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o Part of person’s environment including cultural patterns characterized by spiritual existence, ideas, values, beliefs and tradition

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Conceptual

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Adaptations are grounded in history and await the challenges to which they respond

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Historicity

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Individual responses and their adaptive pattern varies on the base of specific genetic structure

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Specificity

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12
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Safe and fail options available to the individual to ensure continued adaptation

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Redundancy

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13
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 A change in behavior of an individual during an attempt to adapt to the environment
 Help individual to protect and maintain their integrity

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Organismic response

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An instantaneous response to real or imagined threat, most primitive response

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Flight or fight

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15
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response intended to provide for structural integrity and the promotion of healing

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Inflammatory

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16
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Response developed over time and influenced by each stressful experience encountered by person

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Stress

17
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Involves gathering information from the environment and converting it in to a meaning experience

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Perceptual

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 Refers to balancing energy input and output to avoid excessive fatigue
 includes adequate rest, nutrition and exercise
Example:
 Availability of adequate rest
 Maintenance of adequate nutrition

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Conversation of energy

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 Refers to maintaining or restoring the structure of body preventing physical breakdown And promoting healing
Example:
 Assist patient in ROM exercise
 Maintenance of patient’s personal hygiene

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Conservation of structural integrity

20
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 Recognizes the individual as one who strives for recognition, respect, self awareness, selfhood and self determination
Example:
 Recognize and protect patient’s space needs

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Conservation of personal integrity

21
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 An individual is recognized as some one who resides with in a family, a community ,a religious group, an ethnic group, a political system and a nation
Example:
 Position patient in bed to foster social interaction with other patients
 Avoid sensory deprivation
 Promote patient’s use of newspapers, magazines,radio, TV
 Provide support and assistance to family

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Conservation of social integrity

22
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is a wholeness and successful adaptation. It is return to daily activities, selfhood and the ability of the individual to pursue once more his or her own interest without constraints

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Health

23
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It is unregulated and undisciplined change and must be stopped or death will ensue

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Disease

24
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is a profession as well as an academic discipline, always practiced and studied in concert with all of the disciplines that together from the health sciences.

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Nursing

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 Untested, speculative theory that redefined aging and everything else that has to do with human life

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Theory of redundancy

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To seek a way of organizing nursing interventions out of the biological realities which the nurse has to confront
 Facilitate healing through natural response to disease
 Provide support for a failing auto regulatory portion of the integrated system
 Restore individual integrity and well being

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Theory of therapeutic intention