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WEEK 8 How has our discipline developed? |
evolved over a long period nursing knowledge has been historically shaped nursing knowledge shaped also by current politics, culture and social forces nursing today is both practice profession and academic discipline |
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What is nursing Metadata? |
Nursing has four basic concepts, called metaparadigms person environment health nursing |
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Names 5 types of nursing knowledge, and what is important about these? |
1. Mechanistic 2. Scientific/Biomedical 3. Humanistic 4. Critical 5. Holistic It is important to know and recognise that knowledge comes from different courses, with different focuses |
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Describe the mechanistic nursing knowledge? |
views the body as a machine, with fixed laws, life can be explained as a series of chemical and physical responses. Supports the notion that a body part can be removed without impacting other parts of the body
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Describe scientific/biomedical nursing knowledge |
focuses purely on biomedical factors, excludes psychological, environmental and social factors 'healthy' or 'good health' is constructed as freedom from pain or disease |
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Describe humanistic nursing knowledge |
based on the humanity of the patient, and the capacity for agency & free will |
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Describe critical nursing? |
critical theory examines power and structure, and looks at how these structure produce population inequality |
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Describe holistic nursing? |
concerned with the whole person, rather than symptom or disease recognises person is more than his/her disease addresses the interconnectedness of the mind, body, spirit, social culture, emotional and environmental context of the person |
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Describe nursing research and evidence based practice |
the systematic, objective process of analysing phenomena of importance to nursing |
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What are the two types of nursing research (evidence) |
1. Quantitive - methods relate to numbers - needs to be able to be presented in statistical terms 2. Qualitative - non quantifiable, focus on values, processes, experiences. Data is mostly presented in words/text |
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Evidence based practice is |
Using the best evidence current evidence to make decisions about the care of patients. Integrating individual clinical expertise with best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. |
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3 points of evidence based practice |
Patient preference Best research evidence Clinical expertise |
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How do technology & nursing integrate? |
Nurses are required to manipulate techology regardless of speciality Nurses rely on experience and continued education to develop knowledge of technology |
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What to consider when new technology is implemented in nursing |
Balancing humanity with technology Balancing costs with benefits Training a technology enabled nursing workforce Assuring ethical usage of technology |
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WEEK 11 why are nurse leaders so important? |
Build positive workplace cultures Recruitment & retention of a skilled workforce Maintain the productivity and cost effectiveness of health services |
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What is agency? |
Agency is the capacity for acting or the condition of acting or exerting power An agent is a person 'though whom power is exerted' An agent can demote someone who is acting on behalf of someone An agent is someone who acts and beings about change The voice of agency is the voice that conveys the message "Im here. I am doing something important". |
