Theories and Models of Nursing Flashcards
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What is Theory?
refers to a speculative statement involving some element of reality that has not been proved
What is Model?
is a hypothetical representation of something that exists in reality. The purpose of a model is to explain a complex reality in a systematic and organized manner
What is a conceptual model?
Group of concepts, ideas, or theories that are interrelated but in which the relationship is not clearly defined
What are competencies?
Behaviors, skills, attitudes, and knowledge that an individual or professional has or is expected to have.
Why are Nursing competencies currently under close scrutiny?
Because of the large number of medication and other types of errors in the health-care setting that have led to numerous clients being injured or killed
What was the Iowa Project?
a research project to develop a taxonomy of the interventions that nurses use in their practice. It addresses an ongoing need for nurses to be able to identify and quantify what they do.
Why is that many of the contributions that nurses make to health care are currently invisible?
because there is no method of classification for them in the computerized database systems now in use
Which are four common concepts of the nursing model?
Client or patient (individual or collective), health, environment, and nursing
What is the definition of a client?
Usually refers to a single individual, it can also refer to small groups or a large collective of individuals. The more modern term for patient; an individual seeking or receiving health-related services.
Why in today’s practice, nurses use the term Client over Patient?
because it does not have to have an illness to be the central element of the model
What was the original thought about health?
It was perceived as an absence of disease
What is the current concept of health?
a continuum, ranging from a completely healthy state in which there is no disease to a completely unhealthy state, which results in death
What is Systems Theory?
stresses the interrelatedness of parts in any system in which a change in one part affects all other parts; often, the system is greater than the sum of its parts
What is the definition of Open Systems?
System that can exchange energy, matter, and information with the environment and with other systems.
What is the definition of a Closed Systems?
System that does not exchange energy, matter, or information with the environment or with other systems.
