Week 3

Question 1

What is nursing?

Answer 1

nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups, and communities sick it well in all settings. nursing includes promoting health, preventing illness, and caring for ill, disabled, and dying people. the nursing profession is upheld by practice, research, and theory.

Question 2

nursing roles and responsibilities

Answer 2

• work with patients or communities
• advocate
• education
• prevent
• promote
• managing work (leadership)
• Building profession ( research, teaching, and policy work)

Question 3

ontology

Answer 3

“the way of seeing and describing the whole” is the “core of nursing” ontological descriptions explore the defining features or realities of being human; however, this is not to suggest that experience is an immutable state, but rather dynamic and shifting. knowing becomes an embodied experience - it is situated within personal, social, historical, and cultural settings. (a way of thinking, making, and acting). way of being - study or experience of being a nurse.

Question 4

epistemology

Answer 4

nursing epistemology is the “study of knowledge shared among the members of the discipline, the patterns of knowing and knowledge that develops from them, and the criteria for accepting knowledge claims.” (knowing is a process knowledge is a product). study of nursing knowledge, knowing versus knowledge, nursing practice.

Question 5

ontology + epistemology =

Answer 5

philosophy = profession

Question 6

Philosophical thinking

Answer 6

the theory under skills and the critical thinking that takes place before. (e.g., to critically think about psychomotor skills being done)

Question 7

Nursing Theories

Answer 7

nursing theory has been described as a conceptual framework, a process of inquiry, and a set of concepts, definitions, and models; theories are derived from logical thinking and inductive reasoning.

Question 8

levels of nursing theory

Answer 8

(top) metaparadigm
grand theories
middle range theories
(bottom) practical level theories

Question 9

metaparadigm

Answer 9

a set of concepts and propositions that sets forth the phenomena with which a discipline is concerned. clarification of the theoretical focus of nursing, and the development of a number of grand theories lead to nursing, person, environment, and health becoming the central concepts constituting the metaparadigms of nursing.

Question 10

Relationship of practice to theories

Answer 10

Nursing practices lead to theory development leads to ongoing research lead to practice changes leads to evaluation.

Question 11

Nursing knowledge and research paradigms: empirical

Answer 11

the science of nursing, which is factual, and descriptive, and helps to develop abstract and theoretical explanations

Question 12

Nursing knowledge and research paradigms: Phenomenological

Answer 12

offers an approach that helps to elucidate the meaning of interactions between and individual and their environment.

Question 13

Nursing knowledge and research paradigms: Critical

Answer 13

the ability to analyze, too decide the best option or answer, serves to our most repressed groups.

Question 14

Nursing knowledge and research paradigms: natural science

Answer 14

has an influential effect on society and other scientific disciplines. influence on nursing epistemology.

Question 15

implicit bias

Answer 15

conscious or unconscious attitudes towards people or associated stereotypes

Question 16

professional practice and implicit bias (effects)

Answer 16

• disparities in healthcare
• responsiveness to patients (pain and/or call bells)
• patient assessment/diagnosis
• resource collaboration

Question 17

strategies to mitigate implicit bias

Answer 17

• mindfulness
• habit replacement
• STOP: (S) stop what you are doing, (T) take some deep, slow breaths, (O) observe thoughts feelings, and assumptions, (P) proceed with patient care

Question 18

cultural practice

Answer 18

recognize the impacts of nursing knowledge, theories, and practice of colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism

Question 19

overarching nursing goals

Answer 19

• theraputic relationship
• patient/family-centered care
• culturally competent care
• individualism
• partnership/ally building

Question 20

concept-based curriculum

Answer 20

• practice is fluid
• demand is high
• entry level competencies (BCCNM)

Question 21

principles of curiculum

Answer 21

1. health is promoted through the integration of the art and science of nursing.
2. nursing practice entails empirical, practica;, ethical, aesthetic, personal, political, and environmental knowledge, in addition to knowledge from other disciplines
3. the nurse influences the current reality and future nursing practice
4. the nurse is critically reflective, independent and motivated to lifelong learning.

Question 22

Florence Nightingale

Answer 22

Florence Nightingale (1946/1859) is often cited as the person responsible for formalizing the knowledge and practice of nursing into a profession, popularizing nursing for the modern era. she mobilized nurses to care for British soldiers injured in the Crimean War and subsequently created systems for the education of nurses and the delivery of nursing care