N272 Exam 2 Review Questions and Correct Answers

N272 Exam 2 Review Questions a nd Correct Answer s CARING What are the theoretical views on caring? ✅A universal phenomenon that influences the way we think, feel, and behave. Florence Nightingale studied caring. In the 1980s, Patricia Benner with Judith Wrubel offered another definition of caring. CARING What is the Benner definition of care? ✅The essence of excellent nursing practice is caring. Caring determines what matters to a person. It underlies a wide range of interactions from parental love to friendship, from caring for one's work to caring for one's pet, to caring for and about one's p atients (caring creates possibility) CARING What is compassion? ✅A desire/motivation to help others that comes from the human response to suffering of others, motivates people to go out of their way to help physical, spiritual, or emotional hurts or pains of another. CARING What is caring touch? -Contact -Noncontact -Protective -Task -oriented ✅Provides comfort and creates a connection -Nonverbal (holding hand and giving backrub) -Eye contact -Protect patient (stop from falling) -Used when performing procedure (done with care) CARING What is comforting? ✅Acts toward another individual that display an emotional and physical calm. The use of touch establishing presence, the therapeutic use of silence, and the skillful and gentle performance of a procedure are examples of comforting nursing measures. CARING What is empathy? ✅Knowing, understanding and accepting a person's feelings and the ability to sense the person's private world (is not sympathy) CARING What is ethic of care? ✅Concerned with the relationship between the patient and the nurse and the attitude of each towards the other - Places the nurse as the patient's advocate who solves ethical dilemmas by creating a relationship - gives priority to each patient as a unique be ing CARING What is listening? ✅Creates trust - opens lines of communication - creates a mutual relationship CARING What is presence? ✅Being with - eye contact - body language - tone of voice - listening - positive and encouraging attitude CARING What is therapeutic communication? ✅Desired benefit of a medication, treatment, or procedure CARING What is caring central to? ✅Nursing practice CARING What is leininger's transcultural caring? ✅The essence and central, unifying, and dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines (Take into account values, needs, and cultures) CARING What is watson's transpersonal caring? ✅Caring becomes spiritual A conscious intention to care promotes healing and wholeness Rejects the disease orientation to health care Places care before the cure Emphasizes the nurse -patient relationship Preserves human dignity CARING What is transformative mean? ✅To change, to change each other from a caring encounter CARING What is swanson's theory of caring? ✅A composite of three studies in a perinatal unit (a central nursing phenomenon, not necessarily unique to nursing practice) Nurturing ways of relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility CARING What does caring behaviors include? ✅Present (presence) Providing caring touch (appropriate) Listening (actively) CARING What is caring a product of? ✅Culture, values, experiences, and relationships with others CARING Look over carative factor - ✅- Look over carative factor ADVOCACY What does advocacy entail? ✅Speaking up for patients to ensure that health needs are met is an expectation within the scope of professional nursing practice ADVOCACY How do you have to speak? ✅Assertively, credibly, and authoritatively is a highly valued communication skill critical for effective advocacy ADVOCACY What is altruism? ✅The unselfish regard for others - respects cultures, beliefs, and perspective of others ADVOCACY What self -determination (autonomy) ✅Making up one's own mind regarding what to do or think without regard to outside influence - free will - independence ADVOCACY What is social justice? ✅Is the principle that all persons are entitled to have their basic human needs met, regardless of differences in economic status, class, gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability or health. This includes the eradic ation of poverty and illiteracy, the establishment of sound environmental policy, and equality of opportunity for healthy personal and social development ADVOCACY What is valuing? ✅To consider or rate highly, to prize or esteem, to appreciate. Nurses must value the patient's beliefs and concerns in order to be their advocate. This requires knowledge of the patient's story (do not need to agree) ADVOCACY What is apprising? ✅Informing, to tell, to educate. In addition to knowing their story, the nurse needs to know what the patient knows. Fill in any information/education gaps appropriately ADVOCACY