Comprehensive Understanding:

Domain Of Nursing:

Domain: The domain is the perspective of a profession. It provides the subjes central concepts, values and beliefs. The domain of Nursing provides the theoriticaL and practical aspect for decipline. Including nrusing history, theory,eduaton,. practice, ad research. it provides mean to identify and treat clients health care neds at all level of health care settigns.

Paradigm: A paradigm links science, philosophy and theories accepted and applied by te discipline. It is useful for describing the the domain for a discipline.

Nursing paradigm: includes four linkage, the person, HEALTH, ENVIONMENT, AND NURSING.

person: Recipent of nursing care

environment: All possible condition affecting the client and the settings of health care delivery.

nursing: is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual or potential health problems

Theory

7, Nursing theories: is the conceptulization of some aspect od nurisng ccommunicated for thepurpose of describing, explaining, predicting and or prescriing nuring care

8. Theory: Address specific phenomena and reflect pracice. A theory is a set of concepts, definitions and asumptions or proposiions to expalan a phenemenon.

9: phenomenon: is an aspect of reality that people consciously sense or experience. example include caring, slef-care, and client response to stress.

10: concepts: Ideas or mental images. Concepts help to describe or label a phenomenau.

11: definitions: A definition within a theory communicate the general meaning of the concepts. These definition describe the activity necessary to measure the concepts, relationship or variable within a theory.

12: Assumptions: are the taken for granted statements that explain the nature f the concepts, definition purose relatinship and struture of the theory.

13: Grand Theories:

14: Middle-range theories: address specific phenomenon and reflect practice

15: Descriptive theories: describe, speculate and describe consequences of phenomena.

16: Prescriptive theories: action oriented and test the validity and predicatability

Interdisciplinary theories:

17: Give an example of an interdisciplianary theory: Pigets theory of cognitive development help explain how children thinks,

Interdisciplinary theories:

17: Give an example of an interdisciplianary theory: Pigets theory of cognitive development in children. it help explain how children think, react and perceive the world.

18: Give an example of a system theory; Client with impared motility have common skin cancer and need intervention, hygene and schedule positioning changes.)

19: List the five levels of maslows hierachy of human needs:

a) Basic needs such as air water and food.

b) safety and security needs (physical and social security

c) Love and belogning needs

d) esteem and self esteem needs

e) self actulization, ability to solve problems…

Selected Nursing Theories

20: Nightingales: Manipulating the environment to help in healing, environment was the focus of nursing care

21: peplau’s : Nurse and Client relationship

22: hendersons: We all have 14 basic needs

23: rogers : Unitary Man, we all co-exist

24: orem’s – Slef care (teach client to care for themseleves)

25: Leiningers: Transcultural

26: ROYS’: Adptation, teaching client to adapt to enviorment and new situation.

27: watsons: Caring (transpersonal caring)

28: Brennrs and wrubles: Caring also but personal concern as an inherent feature of nursing practice.

29. Which of the following conceptual models veiws the person and the enviroment as energy field coexisting with the universe?

1. roy’s adaptation model

2. orems model of the self care

3. kings model of persal interpersoal and social systems

4. rogers life process interactive person environemntal model.

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