Med dose responses - ✅✅-onset (time for med to produce response)
trough (min. blood serum concentration before next scheduled dose)
plateau (point at which blood serum concentration reached and maintained)
peak (when med reaches its highest effective concentration)
duration (time for med to produce greatest result)
half-life (time for excretion process to lower amount of unchanged med by half)
Florence Nightingale - ✅✅ -First practicing nurse epidemiologist
Grand theory - cleanliness of environment
Novice nurse - ✅✅ -deals with a specific set of rules or procedures, which are
usually stepwise and linear.
Competent nurse - ✅✅ -understands the organization and the specific care
required by specific types of patients and has experience with psychomotor skills.
Proficient nurse - ✅✅-Focuses on managing care as opposed to managing and
performing skills.
Expert nurse - ✅✅ -identifies patient-centered problems, as well as problems
related to the health care system
Autonomy - ✅✅ -essential element of nursing that involves the initiation of
independent nursing interventions without medical orders
Patient advocate -✅✅-the nurse protects the patient's human and legal rights
Accountability - ✅✅-the nurse is responsible professionally and legally, for the type
and quality of nursing care provided
Nursing theories - ✅✅ -offers well-grounded rationales or reasons for how and why
nurses perform specific interventions
Orem's theory - ✅✅ -Self-care deficit theory focuses on helping the patient perform
self-care and manage his or her health problems
✅✅-cleanliness of environment was the focus of nursing care
Nightingale's theory -
Peplau's Theory - ✅✅-nurse-patient relationship
, Henderson's Theory - ✅✅ -Help patient perform 14 basic needs through
physiological, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental domains
assisting the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities that will
contribute to health, recovery, or a peaceful death, and that the individual would
perform unaided if he or she had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge
King's theory - ✅✅ -Use communication to help patient reestablish positive
adaptation to environment
Neuman's theory - ✅✅ -Nursing theory that focuses on stress and a persons
response to it. wanted to reduce the persons stress
✅✅-Cultural care and diversity
Leninger's Theory -
Roy's theory - ✅✅-The goal is to help the patient adapt
Watson's Theory - ✅✅-Philosophy of trans personal caring
Benner and Wrubel's Theory - ✅✅-focus on patient's need for caring as a means
of coping with stressors of illness
skill acquisition
Grand theory - ✅✅-broad in scope, complex
Middle-range theory - ✅✅-limited in scope and less abstract
Practice theory - ✅✅-narrow in scope and focus
Descriptive theory - ✅✅-describe phenomena and identify circumstances in which
phenomena occur
Prescriptive theory - ✅✅ -address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, guide
practice change, and predict the consequences
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✅✅ -LEVEL 1:
physiological needs
LEVEL 2:
safety and security needs
LEVEL 3:
love and belonging needs (friendship, social relationships, and sexual love)
LEVEL 4:
esteem and self-esteem
LEVEL 5:
trough (min. blood serum concentration before next scheduled dose)
plateau (point at which blood serum concentration reached and maintained)
peak (when med reaches its highest effective concentration)
duration (time for med to produce greatest result)
half-life (time for excretion process to lower amount of unchanged med by half)
Florence Nightingale - ✅✅ -First practicing nurse epidemiologist
Grand theory - cleanliness of environment
Novice nurse - ✅✅ -deals with a specific set of rules or procedures, which are
usually stepwise and linear.
Competent nurse - ✅✅ -understands the organization and the specific care
required by specific types of patients and has experience with psychomotor skills.
Proficient nurse - ✅✅-Focuses on managing care as opposed to managing and
performing skills.
Expert nurse - ✅✅ -identifies patient-centered problems, as well as problems
related to the health care system
Autonomy - ✅✅ -essential element of nursing that involves the initiation of
independent nursing interventions without medical orders
Patient advocate -✅✅-the nurse protects the patient's human and legal rights
Accountability - ✅✅-the nurse is responsible professionally and legally, for the type
and quality of nursing care provided
Nursing theories - ✅✅ -offers well-grounded rationales or reasons for how and why
nurses perform specific interventions
Orem's theory - ✅✅ -Self-care deficit theory focuses on helping the patient perform
self-care and manage his or her health problems
✅✅-cleanliness of environment was the focus of nursing care
Nightingale's theory -
Peplau's Theory - ✅✅-nurse-patient relationship
, Henderson's Theory - ✅✅ -Help patient perform 14 basic needs through
physiological, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental domains
assisting the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities that will
contribute to health, recovery, or a peaceful death, and that the individual would
perform unaided if he or she had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge
King's theory - ✅✅ -Use communication to help patient reestablish positive
adaptation to environment
Neuman's theory - ✅✅ -Nursing theory that focuses on stress and a persons
response to it. wanted to reduce the persons stress
✅✅-Cultural care and diversity
Leninger's Theory -
Roy's theory - ✅✅-The goal is to help the patient adapt
Watson's Theory - ✅✅-Philosophy of trans personal caring
Benner and Wrubel's Theory - ✅✅-focus on patient's need for caring as a means
of coping with stressors of illness
skill acquisition
Grand theory - ✅✅-broad in scope, complex
Middle-range theory - ✅✅-limited in scope and less abstract
Practice theory - ✅✅-narrow in scope and focus
Descriptive theory - ✅✅-describe phenomena and identify circumstances in which
phenomena occur
Prescriptive theory - ✅✅ -address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, guide
practice change, and predict the consequences
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✅✅ -LEVEL 1:
physiological needs
LEVEL 2:
safety and security needs
LEVEL 3:
love and belonging needs (friendship, social relationships, and sexual love)
LEVEL 4:
esteem and self-esteem
LEVEL 5:
