Theoritical Foundation of Nursing Mod 7-8 Theories

Question 1

Her greatest contribution may be her introduction into nursing of a questioning stance about the prevailing models of science

Answer 1

Martha Elizabeth Rogers

Question 2

She defined nursing as an art and science that is humanistic and humanitarian

Answer 2

Martha Elizabeth Rogers

Question 3

It is a theory that is directed towards the unitary human is connected with the nature and direction of human development

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Science of Unitary Human Beings

Question 4

It is the knowledge specific to the field of nursing that comes from scientific research

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Science of Nursing

Question 5

Involves using the science of nursing creatively to help better the lives of the patient

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Art of Nursing

Question 6

This theory views nursing as both a science and an art as it provides a way to view the unitary human being, who is integral with the universe.

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Science of Unitary Human Beings

Question 7

The unitary human being and his or her environment are one. True or False

Answer 7

True

Question 8

It is the belief of the coexistence of the human and environment has greatly influenced the process of change toward better health

Answer 8

Science of Unitary Human Being

Question 9

In this theory, it is believed that nursing focuses on people and the manifestations that emerge from the mutual human-environmental field process

Answer 9

Science of Unitary Human Being

Question 10

What are the 8 concepts in the Science of Unitary Human Being

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Energy Field, Pattern, Openness, Pan-Dimensionality, Homeodynamic Principles, Helicy, Resonancy, Integrity

Question 11

It is the fundamental unit of both the living and the non-living

Answer 11

Energy Field

Question 12

It is an irreducible, indivisible, pan-dimensional energy field identified by pattern and integral with the human field

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Environmental Field

Question 13

It represents characteristics that define energy fields

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Pattern

Question 14

There is no boundary or barrier that can inhibit the flow of energy between humans and the environment which leads to the continuous movement of matter or energy.

Answer 14

Openness

Question 15

This is a nonlinear domain without spatial or temporal attributes. This term provides for an infinite domain without limit

Answer 15

Pan-dimensionality

Question 16

What are the 3 Homeodynamic Principles

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Helicy, Resonancy and Integrity

Question 17

It is described as the unpredictable, but continuous, nonlinear evolution of the energy field as evidenced by non-repeating rythmicties.

Answer 17

Helicy

Question 18

It is an ordered arrangement of rythm characterizing both human field and environment that undergoes continuous dynamic metamorphosis in the human-environmental process

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Resonancy

Question 19

It is the mutual, continuous relationship between the human energy field and the environmental field. The fields that are one integrated but unique to each other

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Integrity

Question 20

What are the assumptions of this theory?

Answer 20

1. Man is unified whole processing his own integrity and manifesting characteristics that are more than and different from the sum of his parts.
2. Man and the environment are continuously exchanging matter and energy with one another.
3. The life process evolves irreversibly and unidirectionally along with the space-time continuum
4. Pattern and organization identify the man and reflect his innovative wholeness.
5. Man is characterized by the capacity for abstraction and imagery, language and thought sensation and emotion.

Question 21

She is the theorist who said that “the condition that validates the existence of a requirement for nursing in an adult is the absence of the ability to maintenance continuously that amount and quality of self-care which is therapeutic in sustaining life and health, in recovering from diseases or injury, or in coping with their effects.

Answer 21

Dorothea Orem

Question 22

It is the theory that defined nursing as the act of assisting others in the provision and management of self-care to maintain or improve human functioning at the home level of effectiveness.

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Self Care Deficit Theory

Question 23

This theory focuses on each individual’s ability to perform self-care as the practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life, health, and well-being.

Answer 23

Self Care Deficit Theory

Question 24

It is the performance or practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well being

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Self-care

Question 25

The human ability or power to engage in self-care and is affected by basic conditioning factors

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Self-Care Agency

Question 26

These are the age, gender, developmental state, health state, socio-cultural orientation, health care system factors, family system factors, patterns of living, environmental factors, and resources adequacy and availability

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Basic Conditioning Factors

Question 27

It is the totality of self-care actions to be performed for some duration to meet known self-care requisites by using valid methods and related sets of actions and operations.

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Therapeutic Self-Care Demand

Question 28

It delineates when nursing is needed. Nursing is required when an adult is incapable of or limited in providing continuous effective self-care

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Self-Care Deficit

Question 29

What are the assumptions of the Self Care Deficit Theory

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1. To stay alive and remain functional, humans engage in constant communication and connect themselves with the environment 2. The power to act deliberately is exercised to identify the needs and to make needed judgments. 3. Mature human beings experience privations in the form of action in care of self and others involving making life-sustaining and function-regulating actions. 4. Human agency is exercised in discovering, developing, and transmitting to other ways and means to identify needs for and make inputs into self and others. 5. Groups of human beings with structured relationships cluster tasks and allocate responsibilities for providing care to group members,

Question 30

What are the 3 inter-related theories

Answer 30

Theory of Self Care, Theory of Self Care Deficit, and Theory of Nursing Systems

Question 31

This theory focuses on the performance or practice or activities that individualization initiate and perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well being

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Theory of Self Care

Question 32

What are the 5 methods of Self-Care Deficit

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1. Acting for and doing for others 2. Guiding others 3. Supporting another 4. Providing an environment promoting personal development about meet future demands 5. Teaching another

Question 33

This theory is the product of a series of relations between the persons"Legitimate nurse and legitimate client. The system is activated when the client's therapeutic self-care demand exceeds the available self-care agency leading to nursing

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Theory of Nursing Systems

Question 34

It is defined as actions directed towards the provision of self-care. It is presented in 3 categories

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Self-Care Requisites

Question 35

What are the 3 categories of Self-Care Requisites

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Universal Self-Care Requisites, Developmental Self-Care Requisites, and Health Deviation Self-Care Requisites

Question 36

It is the self-care requisites that is associated with the life processes and the maintenance of the human structure and functioning integrity

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Universal Self Care Requisites

Question 37

These are either specialized expressions of universal self-care requisites that have been particularized for development processes

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Developmental Self-Care Requisites

Question 38

These are required in conditions of illness, injury or disease or may result from medical measures required to diagnose and correct the conditions

Answer 38

Health Deviation Self-Care Requisites

Question 39

What are the universal self-care requisites

Answer 39

The maintenance of a sufficient intake of air The maintenance of a sufficient intake of water The maintenance of a sufficient intake of food The provision of care associated with the elimination process and excrements The maintenance of a balance between activity and rest The maintenance of a balance between solitude and social interaction The prevention of hazards to human life, human functioning, and human well-being The promotion of human functioning and development within social groups in accord with human potential, known human limitations, and the human desire to be normal Normalcy is used in the sense of that which is essentially human and that which is in accord with the genetic and constitutional characteristics and individuals’ talents.

Question 40

It is represented by a situation in which the individual is unable to engage in those self-care actions requiring self-directed and controlled ambulation and manipulative movement or the medical prescription to refrain from such activity.

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Wholly Compensatory Nursing System

Question 41

Persons with these limitations are socially dependent on others for their continued existence and well being

Answer 41

Wholly Compensatory Nursing System

Question 42

What are some examples of the Wholly Compensatory Nursing System?

Answer 42

Care for a newborn and care of client recovering from surgery in a post-anesthesia care unit

Question 43

It is represented by a situation in which both nurse and patient perform care measures or other actions involving manipulative tasks or ambulation

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Partial Compensatory Nursing System

Question 44

Either the patient or the nurse may have a major role in the performance of care measures

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Partial Compensatory Nursing System

Question 45

What are some examples of the Partial Compensatory Nursing System

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The nurse can assist the post-operative client in ambulating and the Nurse can bring a meal tray for a client who can feed himself

Question 46

It is also known as a supportive-developmental system. The person can perform or can and should learn to perform required measures of externally or internally oriented therapeutic self-care but cannot do so without assistance.

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Supportive-Educative System

Question 47

What are some examples of the Supportive-Educative System

Answer 47

Nurse guides a mother on how to breastfeed her baby and Counselling a psychiatric client on more adaptive coping strategies