Theoretical Foundations of Nursing

Vocabulary flashcards covering core concepts, theories, and historical figures from NCMA 110 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing.

Florence Nightingale

Founder of Modern Nursing who defined the role of nursing as facilitating 'the body's reparative processes' by manipulating the client's environment.

The Lady with a Lamp

A title given to Florence Nightingale because she made ward rounds during the night.

Crimean Fever

An illness, identified as typhus or brucellosis, that Florence Nightingale contracted while in Scutari.

St. Thomas Hospital

The hospital established in London by Florence Nightingale after the war.

Five Essential Components of Environmental Health

Florence Nightingale's environmental principles comprising pure air, light, cleanliness, efficient drainage, and pure water.

Pure Air

An essential component of environmental health emphasized by Florence Nightingale, involving proper ventilation and checking patient extremities for heat loss.

Light (Nightingale)

An environmental factor focused on direct sunlight, requiring nurses to move and position patients to expose them to sunlight.

Cleanliness (Nightingale)

An environmental component pertaining to patient, nurse, and environment, preventing infection arising from dirty environments containing organic matter.

Efficient Drainage

The appropriate handling and disposal of bodily excretions and sewage required to prevent environmental contamination.

Pure Water

An environmental component advocating frequent patient bathing, daily nurse bathing, clean clothing, and frequent handwashing.

Jean Watson

Nursing theorist Margaret Jean Harman Watson, creator of the Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring.

Transpersonal Caring Moment

A caring interaction in Jean Watson's theory where each person feels a connection with the other at the spirit level.

Watson's Handwashing Ritual

A practice used by Jean Watson as a ritual to pause for a moment and become receptive to interactions with the patient.

Watson's 10 Carative Factors

A structured set of ten factors including humanistic-altruistic values, faith-hope, sensitivity, trust, expression of feelings, scientific problem-solving, teaching-learning, environment, human needs, and existential-phenomenological forces.

Patricia Benner

A professor emerita at UCSF born in Hampton, Virginia, who authored Caring, Clinical Wisdom and Ethics in Nursing Practice.

Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

A situational model developed by studying chess masters and pilots in emergency situations, which Patricia Benner adapted to clinical nursing.

Novice

The first stage in Benner's skill acquisition model, defined as having no professional experience.

Advanced Beginner

The second level in Benner's model where a nurse can note recurrent meaningful situational components, but cannot prioritize between them.

Competent

The third level in Benner's model where a nurse begins to understand actions in terms of long-range goals.

Proficient

The fourth level in Benner's model where a nurse perceives situations as wholes, rather than in terms of aspects.

Expert

The highest stage in Benner's model where a nurse has an intuitive grasp of the situation and zeroes in on the accurate region of the problem.

From Novice to Expert

Patricia Benner's situational model describing five levels of skill acquisition and development in clinical nursing practice.

Katie Eriksson

A Finnish nurse theorist born on November 18, 1943, in Jakobstad, Finland, who developed the Caritative Caring Theory.

Caritas

A central term in Katie Eriksson's theory that refers to caring for the human being in health suffering.

True Caring

According to Katie Eriksson, an outcome that occurs when the one caring in a spirit of caritas alleviates the suffering of the patient.