Final Flashcards
(40 cards)
What is Qualitative Nursing Research ?
-Poses questions about nursing phenomena that can’t be quantified and measured
What 4 things are evolved in Evidenced-Informed Clinical Decision Making?
- )Clinical Expertise
- )Information about patient preferences and values
- )Evidence from assessment of patients’ history and physical and available health care resources
- )Evidence from research, evidence-informed theories, clinical experts, and opinion leaders
What are the 5 main domains of nursing practice?
- )Clinical Care
- Bedside nursing, direct client care - )Administration
- President of hospitals, being a manager - )Education
- Teaching - )Policy
- Nurses creating policy in politics - )Research
- working conducting research
What are the two components in critical thinking?
1.) Specific Knowledge Base
-Nurses must possess a sound knowledge base to think critically, formulate accurate clinical judgements and decisions, and improve clinical practice
-The breadth and depth of our knowledge influences our ability to intergrade and apply different kinds of knowledge and to think critically about nursing problems in a range of practice settings
-Building a sound knowledge base demands that you develop information literacy skills- which includes proficiency in knowing when information is needed and how to effectively find, retrieve, evaluate and apply research findings
Critical thinking dispositions, such as truth-seeking, being systematic, analytical, open-minded, and inquisitive, will allow you to become an informed consumer of information found in print, through social media, and on the internet
- ) Experience
- In clinical situations, you learn from observing, sensing, talking with patients and families, and reflecting activity on your experience
- Clinical experience is the laboratory for evaluating nursing knowledge
- With experience, you begin got understand clinical situations, recognize cues of patients’ health patterns, and interpret cues as relevant or irrelevant
- You also learn to seek new knowledge as needed, act quickly when events change and make quality decisions that promote the patients’ health and well-being
What is one major tool used in risk management? What does it require?
Incident reports, requires LOTS of documentation
How is Emancipatory defined?
is defined as the human ability to recognize social and political problems of injustice or inequality, to realize that things could be different, and piece together complex elements of experience and context to change a situation
What is Quantitive Nursing Research? What is its goal?
Is the investigation of nursing phenomena that can be precisely measured and quantified
Ex.) Pain severity, rates of wound healing, and body temperature changes
-The goal is to test theory and use numerical data, statistical analysis and controls the eliminate bias
Fiduciary Relashionship
Is on in which a professional provides services that, by their nature cause the recipients to trust specialized knowledge and integrity of the professional
3 things that shape Relational Inquireing Well-being?
- ) Patient family wellbeing
- )System well being
- ) Nurse wellbeing
What is an intentional tort? What are the 4 intentional Torts?
-Willful acts that violate another persons rights
- ) Assault
- ) Battery
- ) False imprsionment
- ) Invasion of privacy
What are the 5 levels of care?
1.) Health promotion
Focuses on wellness and enabling people
-Enabling people to increase control over and improve their health
-Wellness Services
-Promotion of self-esteem in children and adolescents
-Advocacy for health public policy
- ) Disease and Injury Prevention
- Reduce risk factors for disease and injury - ) Diagnosis and Disease
- Recognizing and management of health issues - ) Rehabilitation
- Improving the health and quality of life of those facing life-altering conditions
- Required after physical/mental illness, injury, or addiction
5.) Supportive care
For patients with chronic illness, progressive illness, or disability
-Long-term care and assisted-living facilities, adult daycare centres, home care
-Also includes respite (break care) care and palliative care
What does critical thinking require?
Requires purposeful and reflective reasoning to examine ideas, assumptions and beliefs, principles, conclusions, and actions within the context of the situation
What is social justice? What does It focus on?
Social justice is the fair distribution of resources
- Focuses on the position of one social group in relation to others in society
- Root causes of disparity and what can be done to eliminate them
- Taking action- Means reducing system wide differences that disadvantage certain groups and prevent equal access to determinants of health and health care services
Unintentional tort? Nurses can be liable for them in 1 of 4 ways?
Negligence
- ) Nurse owed duty of care to the patient
- ) The nurse did not carry out that duty
- ) The patient was injured
- ) The nurse failed to cary out the duty and caused harm
-What is Emancipatory knowing?
-The human ability to recognize social and political problems of injustice or inequity, to realize that things could be different, and to piece together complex elements of experience and context to change a situation
What are the 5 ethical issues in nursing research?
- )Respect for human dignity-All research must be conducted in a manner that is sensitive to the inherent worth of humans beings
- )Respect for persons-Includes obligations to respect the autonomy of human research subjects and at the same time to protect those with developing, impaired, or diminished autonomy
- ) Concern for welfare-Reaesrchers and ethics review boards should aim to protect the welfare of participants and, when possible, promote their welfare
- )Respect for privacy and confidentiality-Standards of privacy and confidentiality protect the access, control, and dissemination of personal information and thus help protect mental or psychological integrity. These standards are not consonant with values underlying privacy, confidentiality, and autonomy.
- ) Justice-Reflects the importance of treating people fairly and equitably, this treatment includes ensuring that research participants are not unduly burdened by research or denied access to the benefits of research
What is clinical judgement? What is its four main components?
Requires that you recognize the silent aspects of a clinical situation, interpret their meanings, and respond appropriately
- 4 main components
1. ) Noticing or grasping the situation
2. ) Interpreting or developing a sufficient understanding of the situation to respond
3. ) Responding or deciding on a course of action
4. ) Reflecting on or reviewing the actions taken and their outcomes
To whom does Medicare in Canada provide health care?
Permanent residents, new immigrants, and citizens of the country
3 Major factors of relation orientation?
- ) Interpersonal Relationship
- Draws attention to what is going on among and between people and how they are reacting to situations/in the situation - ) Intrapersonal
- Focuses on what might be going on within an individual patient you are caring for, what’s going on with you and others in the situation - ) Contextual
- Draws attention/considers what is going on around the people and situation-The forced and structures that are influencing the situation and shape the interpersonal, intrapersonal and contextual relationships
What are the 3 way in which a praxis is seen as?
- ) A blend of the art and science of nursing
- ) Engaging with knowledge in a reflexive manner that leads to emancipation and action
- ) Reflexive manner” means using reflection to promote change
What is post colonial theory?
theoretical and empirical work that centralizes the issues stemming from colonel relations and their aftermath, it concern extends to the experiences of people descended from the inhabitants of those territories and their experiences within “first world” colonial powers
What is relational Inquiry?
-Practice of focusing attention dn acting in a conscious and intentional manner
What is Risk Management? What its 4 steps?
-Is a system of ensuring appropriate nursing care identifying potential hazards and preventing harm from occurring
- ) Identify possible risks
- ) Analyze said risks
- ) Act to reduce them (risks
- ) Evaluating steps taken (to avoid risks)
What is critical thinking?
Complex Phenomenon that can be defined as a process and a set of skills. Critical thinking emphasizes the use of knowledge and reasoning to make accurate clinical judgements and decisions. Nurses consider what is important in a situation, explore alternative solutions, consider ethical principles, and then make informed decisions on how to proceed