fundamentals-nursing as an art and science COMPILED PACKAGE DEAL EXAMS GRADED A+

acute illness - rapidly occurring illness that runs its course, allowing a person to return to one's previous level of functioning chronic illness - irreversible illness that causes permanent physical impairment and requires longterm health care disease - pathologic change in the structure or fu...

Nursing Process - Assessment Diagnosis Planning Implementation Evaluation Nursing Requires - -Current knowledge and practice standards -Insightful and compassionate approach -Critical thinking Benner's stages of nursing proficiency - 1. Novice=beginning nursing student or entry level 2. Ad...

Structural Hierarchy of Contemporary Nursing knowledge (in order of most abstract to most concrete) - Metaparadigm Philosophies Conceptual models Theories Empirical indicators Nursing's meta-paradigm defines the focus of the discipline's domain and is composed of four concepts which describ...

Ageism - attitudes that stereotype the older adult on the basis of chronologic age. Is a form of prejudice, in which older adults are stereotyped by characteristics found in only a few members of their group. Alzheimer's disease (AD) - Type of dementia in which discrete patches of brain tissue d...

nursing - the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations nursing standards - a mi...

Everything a nurse does has what - A rationale/ reason As a nurse, the first thing you do is what - Assess patient and begin to think critically What a nurse does on a daily basis is a product of what - research and scientific method *NOT INTUITION* What are the 3 types of nursing science - 1. B...

Nursing - a nurse is a person who nourishes, fosters, and protects and who is prepared to take care of sick, injured, and aged people Nurse as a Caregiver - The provision of care to patients that combines the art and the science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultur...