TFN Prelim Exam Flashcards

Flashcards based on Nursing (TFN) Prelim Exam Review

What is a Nurse?

A state-licensed health care professional engaged in the practice of providing nursing care both interdependently and independently.

What is the Approach in Nursing?

The study and application of nursing theories that guide nursing practice, education and research.

What is Nutriz/Nutrice?

Nursing comes from this Latin word.

What is Nursing as an Art?

A method of caring by which a creative imagination, sensitive spirit, and intelligent understanding are being used in the application of techniques and skills.

What is the Apprenticeship Period?

A period of nursing in which they get their training on site or internship.

What are the Dark Ages of Nursing?

One of nursing themes, in which nursing condition was at its worst level due to low standards of caregivers.

What is Graduate Education Era?

An era in which professions were encouraged through acquisition of graduate and postgraduate studies.

What is Ascetism?

A basic lifestyle devoid of luxuries.

What is Humanism?

Focuses on human values and concerns by understanding human interrelationships.

What is Vocation?

Also called a "talent and gifts God has given us".

What is Republic Act 9173?

A legal basis for the maintenance of the Nursing Profession in the Philippines.

What is a Paradigm?

Represents global issues about individuals, groups, situations and events of interest to the profession.

What is Theory?

Beholding spectacle or speculation based on observation and testing.

What is a Phenomenon?

An aspect of reality that can be consciously sensed or experienced.

What is a Framework?

A road map that helps nurses understand how to approach different situations.

What is Theoretical Framework?

The 'Backbone of Nursing Practice' and the collection of theories that nurses used to make sense of what they do, why they do it, and how they can do it.

What is a Model?

A symbolic representation of a Phenomenon.

What is a Concept?

An idea /ideas or complex mental formulation of object, property or events derived from individual experiences.

What is Received Knowledge?

A stage of Nursing Theory development, in which the source of knowledge is based on the listening to others, and we borrowed theory from other disciplines.

What is Meta paradigm?

A global perspective of a discipline that directs and identifies the activity of the Nursing Profession.

What is Knowledge of Order?

A type of knowledge required for nursing practice that can be easily discovered and understood such as the use of Nursing Process.

What is Aesthetics?

According to Barbara Carpers this is a pattern of nursing knowledge that pertains to the art of using empathy and creativity in designing and providing efficient nursing care.

What is Clinical knowledge?

According to Schultz and Meleis, this type of nursing practice knowledge is a combination of empirical or practical and personal knowledge derived from various related learning experience.

What is Metaparadigm?

A component of nursing that describes the global perspective of a discipline that identifies the primary phenomenon that are of interest to nursing profession.

What is Nursing?

One of major concepts in Metaparadigm that identifies the goals of nursing which include caring for the well and the sick, assisting with self-care activities and helping individuals to attain human potential.

What is Grand Theory?

A category of Nursing Theory that is complex in nature, broad in scope and provide relationships between a large number of abstract concepts.

What is Factor-isolating theory?

A category of nursing theory which is the lowest level of theory construction and is the most basic

What is Justice?

A nursing quality; the supervisor uses recent training and qualifications of the nurse being promoted

What is Prudence?

A quality of profession; the doctor reviews the patient's full medical history and consults with specialists to avoid any harmful drug interactions.