Fundamentals Of Nursing Ch 8

Front 1

Define Caring.

Back 1

A universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another

Front 2

Explain Leininger's concept of care from a transcultural perspective.

Back 2

The concept of care is the essence and central, unifying, and dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines. Care is the essential human need, necessary for the health and survival of all individuals.

Front 3

Summarize Watson's transpersonal caring.

Back 3

Looks beyond the client’s disease and its treatment by conventional means. It looks for deeper sources of inner healing to protect, enhance, and preserve a person’s dignity, humanity, wholeness, and inner harmony.

Front 4

What does Watson mean by "transformative model"

Back 4

A connection between the one cared for and the one caring. The relationship influences both the nurse and the client, for better or worse.

Front 5

List the five categories of Swanson's theory of caring.

Back 5

knowing
being with
doing for
enabling
maintining belief

Front 6

Explain using Swanson's theory of caring:

Knowing

Back 6

Striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other

Front 7

Explain using Swanson's theory of caring:

Being With

Back 7

Being emotionally present to the other

Front 8

Explain using Swanson's theory of caring:

Doing For

Back 8

Doing for the other as he or she would do for the self if it were at all possible

Front 9

Explain using Swanson's theory of caring:

Enabling

Back 9

Facilitating the other’s passage through life transitions

Front 10

Explain using Swanson's theory of caring:

Maintaining Belief

Back 10

Sustaining faith in the other’s capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning

Front 11

Identify the nurse's responsibilities in relation to the ethics of care

Back 11

The nurse as the client’s advocate, solving ethical dilemmas by attending to relationships and by giving priority to each client’s unique personhood

Front 12

Summarize the concept of "presence".

Back 12

Person-to-person encounter conveying a closeness and a sense of caring. Presence involves being there and being with.

Front 13

Task oriented touch

Back 13

When performing a task or a procedure, the skillful and gentle performance of a nursing procedure conveys security and a sense of competence.

Front 14

Caring touch

Back 14

A form of nonverbal communication, which successfully influences the client’s comfort and security, enhances self-esteem, and improves reality orientation

Front 15

Protective touch

Back 15

Used to protect the nurse and/or client, it can be positive or negatively viewed.

Front 16

Describe what listening involves

Back 16

Taking in what a client says, as well as an interpretation and understanding of what the client is saying and giving back that understanding to the person talking.

Front 17

When a caring relationship is established, the client and nurse come to know one another so that both can move toward a healing relationship by:

Back 17

a. Mobilizing hope for the client and for the nurse
b. Finding an interpretation or understanding of illness, symptoms, or emotions that is acceptable
c. Assisting the client in using social, emotional, or spiritual resources
d. Recognizing that caring relationships connect us human to human, spirit to spirit

Front 18

List the 11 caring behaviors that are percieved by families.

Back 18

a. Being honest
b. Advocating for the client’s care preferences
c. Giving clear explanations
d. Keeping family members informed
e. Making the client comfortable
f. Showing interest in answering questions honestly
g. Providing necessary emergency care
h. Providing for client privacy
i. Assuring the client that all nursing services will be available
j. Helping clients to do as much for themselves as possible
k. Teaching the family how to keep the relative physically comfortable.

Front 19

Summarize the challenges facing nursing in today's healthcare system

Back 19

Nurses are torn between the human caring model and the task-oriented biomedical model and institutional demands that consume their practice.

Front 20

Leninger's care theory states that the client's caring values and behaviors are derived largely from:
1. Gender
2. Culture
3. Experience
4. Religious beliefs

Back 20

2. Culture

Even though human caring is a universal phenomenon, the expressions, processes, and patterns of caring vary among cultures.

Front 21

The central common theme of the caring theories is:
1. Maintenance of client homeostasis.
2. Compensation for client disabilities.
3. Pathophysiology and self-care abilities.
4. The nurse-client relationship and physiological aspects of care

Back 21

4. The nurse-client relationship and physiological aspects of care

There is a mutual give and take that develops as nurse and client begin to know and care for one another.

Front 22

In order for the nurse to effectively listen to the client, he or she needs to:
1. Lean back in the chair
2. Sit with legs crossed
3. Maintain good eye contact
4. Respond quickly with appropriate answers to the client

Back 22

3. Maintain good eye contact

Listening involves paying attention to the individual’s words and the tone of voice.

Front 23

The nurse demonstrates caring by:
1. Maintaining professionalism at all costs
2. Doing all the necessary tasks for the client
3. Following all of the health care provider's orders accurately.
4. Helping family members become active participants in the care of the client

Back 23

4. Helping family members become active participants in the care of the client

Depends on the family’s willingness to share information about the client, their acceptance and understanding of therapies, whether the interventions fit the family’s daily practices, and whether the family supports and delivers the therapies recommended.