nursing as a caring profession

Question 1

caring

Answer 1

begins with knowing self as caring and cared for, worthy of care, and knowing that nursing is about caring

Question 2

human caring and unitary caring science

Answer 2

how we can tell a nurse is truly caring ; original and evolving ten carative factors into ten caritas process

Question 3

caring model

Answer 3

Philosophical and moral ethical foundation for professional nursing and part of central focus for nursing at disciplinary level

Question 4

assumptions

Answer 4

identifies basic assumptions of caring science, which is the essence of nursing and foundational disciplinary core of the profession

Question 5

caring science

Answer 5

art and science of nursing that focuses on client and patient that are in a caring relationship

Question 6

carative processes

Answer 6

healing and wholeness

Question 7

curing

Answer 7

action taken to prolong life of patient or improves physical conditions

Question 8

caring

Answer 8

holistic process where patient feels comforted by the treatment (focuses on quality)

Question 9

premises

Answer 9

unassumed and consist of ongoing development of knowledge of caring

Question 10

clinician

Answer 10

Registered nurses are clinicians who provide safe,
competent, ethical, compassionate, and evidence informed care across the lifespan in response to
client needs. Registered nurses integrate knowledge,
skills, judgment and professional values from
nursing and other diverse sources into their practice.

Question 11

professional

Answer 11

committed to the health and well-being of clients.
Registered nurses uphold the profession’s practice
standards and ethics and are accountable to the
public and the profession

Question 12

what does it mean to change the paradigm

Answer 12

nurses, as caretakers is to put the focus on people as whole and they should be the starting point of any decision

Question 13

Watson’s vision

Answer 13

• Letting go of the control in helping the human being in need of help and making decisions to best heal themselves
• Focus on needs of the patient and who the patient is as a whole and consciously see what they want or need
• Know who you are as a person

Question 14

eupraxis

Answer 14

• good praxis
• morally informed, committed, authentic acts of caring literacy
• means to act rightly
• compassion

Question 15

dyspraxis

Answer 15

bad praxis

-devoid of caring and does not put patient in best conditions for healing

Question 16

nursing praxis

Answer 16

who we are as a nurse, what knowledge we have and the action we take in a caring and scientific manner

Question 17

praxis iterative cycle

Answer 17

being/becoming (ontology) to knowing (epistemology) to doing (actions and consequences)

Question 18

caritas process 1

Answer 18

sustaining human altruistic values by practice of loving kindness, compassion and equanimity with self/other

Question 19

caritas process 2

Answer 19

being authentically present- enabling faith/hope belief system, honoring subjective inner, life world of self/other

Question 20

caritas process 3

Answer 20

being sensitive to others by cultivating own spiritual practices; beyond ego to transpersonal presence

Question 21

caritas-process 4

Answer 21

developing and sustaining loving, trusting-caring relationships

Question 22

caritas process 5

Answer 22

allowing expression of positive and negative feelings- authentically listening to another persons story

Question 23

caritas process 6

Answer 23

Creatively problem solving -“solution seeking” through caring processes; full use of self and artistry of caring-healing practices via use if all ways of knowing/being/doing/becoming

Question 24

caritas-veritas and caritas process simplified (1-6)

Answer 24

1. embrace (loving-kindness)
2. inspire (faith-hope)
3. trust (transparent self)
4. nurture (relationship)
5. forgive (all)
6. deepen (creative self)

Question 25

caritas veritas & process 2

Answer 25

inspire (faith-hope)

Question 26

caritas veritas & process 3

Answer 26

trust (transpersonal self)

Question 27

caritas veritas & process 4

Answer 27

nurture (relationship)

Question 28

caritas veritas & process 5

Answer 28

forgive (all)

Question 29

caritas veritas & process 6

Answer 29

deepen (creative self)

Question 30

caritas veritas & process 6

Answer 30

deepen creative self

Question 31

conceptual framework for organizing competencies

Answer 31

registered nurse as center 
clinician 
advocate 
coordinator 
communicator 
collaborator 
professional 
educator 
leader 
scholar

Question 32

five major areas of nursing practice

Answer 32

direct care
education
administrator
researcher 
policy maker