Theorist Flashcards (Watson to Local)

Holistic Approach

Holistic Approach

Integrates mind, body, and spirit in patient care.

Metaparadigm in Nursing

Person, health, environment, and nursing - interconnected and essential to Watson's approach.

Theory of Caring

Encompasses physical acts and the mind-body-spirit connection.

Unity and Harmony

Health is defined as unity and harmony within mind, body, and soul.

Cultural Transmission

Caring is a cultural practice passed down through generations, not through genes.

Human Science of Care

Nursing as a human science involving professional, personal, scientific, aesthetic, and ethical care transactions.

Novice

No background experience; nursing students and nurses in new situations.

Advanced Beginner

Sufficient experience to understand aspects of the situation; newly graduated nurses.

Competent

Characterized by consistency, predictability, and time management.

Proficient

Perceives the situation as a whole rather than in aspects; performance guided by maxims.

Expert

Intuitive grasp of situations; does not rely on analytical principles.

Domains in Nursing

Helping role, teaching/coaching function, diagnostic client-monitoring, effective management of situations, administering/monitoring interventions, ensuring quality health care, organizational/work-role competencies.

Patient Behavior

Verbal and nonverbal communication indicating immediate needs.

Nurse's Reaction

Observation, interpretation, and planning based on patient behavior.

Nursing Actions

Interactive process to meet patient needs.

Deliberative Nursing Process

Focuses on interaction between nurse and patient; emphasizes validation.

Immediate Reaction

Patient's perceptions and automatic thoughts/feelings in response to situations.

Stages of Nursing Process

Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation.

Core

Refers to the person receiving care; involves therapeutic self in relationships.

Care

Hands-on bodily care, the exclusive domain of nursing.

Cure

Applying medical knowledge, nursing activities dependent on physician orders.

Self-Actualization

Goal of achieving self-actualization and self-love after disease recovery.

Autonomy

Emphasizes the autonomy of professional nursing.

Phases of Care

Focuses on adult patients in the rehabilitation phase post-acute disease.

Health Promotion

Model encouraging a comprehensive look at variables impacting health behavior.

Ten Determinants

Personal factors, perceived benefits/barriers, self-efficacy, activity-related affect, interpersonal influences, situational influences, immediate competing demands/preferences, commitment to action, health-promoting behavior.

Personal Factors

Biological, psychological, socio-cultural factors affecting health behavior.

Perceived Benefits

Anticipated positive outcomes from health behavior.

Perceived Barriers

Obstacles and costs of undertaking a behavior.

Self-Efficacy

Judgment of personal capability to execute health-promoting behavior.

Conservation

Aims to promote adaptation and maintain wholeness through conservation principles.

Adaptation

Adjustment to environmental conditions; frugal use of resources.

Conservation Principles

Energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, social integrity.

Wholeness

Ongoing interactions and adaptations ensuring individual's integrity.

Organismic Responses

Responses protecting and maintaining integrity: fight or flight, inflammatory, stress, perceptual.

Personal Integrity

Recognition, respect, self-awareness, and self-determination.

General Systems Theory

Developed by Von Bertalanffy; systems are composed of interrelated parts working toward a common goal.

Change Theory

Developed by Kurt Lewin; dynamic process of unfreezing, movement, refreezing.

Developmental Theory

Orderly process of human development from conception to death.

Adaptation Theory

Adjustment of living beings to environmental conditions.

Transactional Analysis

Interpersonal theory of personality by Henry Stack Sullivan; emphasizes social experiences in shaping personality.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Five-tier model: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization.

Retirement and Roles Discontinuities

Focuses on the elderly; aging as gradual growth toward maturity.

PREPARE ME Model

Holistic interventions for patients with advanced cancer; emphasizes quality of life.

CASAGRA Transformative Leadership

Focuses on nursing faculty and leadership behavior.

Technological Competency as Caring

Patients as active participants; technology as an expression of caring.

COMPOSURE Behavior

Model focusing on humane, spiritually-oriented care and patient wellness.

Nursing Practice and Career

Emphasizes nurse-patient-family communication to reduce anxiety and enhance care.

Retirement and Roles Discontinuities

Model by Sr. Letty G. Kuan focusing on preparing elderly individuals for retirement and leaving a legacy.

PREPARE ME Model

Carmencita M. Abaquin's holistic nursing interventions for patients in advanced stages of cancer.

CASAGRA Transformative Leadership

Sr. Carolina S. Agravante's model emphasizing the continuous formation of nursing faculty's leadership behavior.

Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

Rozzano C. Locsin's model viewing patients as active participants in their care with technology enhancing humanity.

COMPOSURE Behavior

Carmelita Divinagracia's model focusing on humane, spiritually-oriented care to improve patient wellness.

Theory of Nursing Practice and Career

Cecilia Laurente's model emphasizing nurse-patient-family communication to reduce anxiety and enhance care.