NURS 233 MIDTERM Exam Questions
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what are the foundational lenses of family nursing - ✔✔- relational inquiry
(RI)
- strengths-based nursing (SBN)
- person- and family-centered care (PFCC)
- trauma- and violence-informed care (TVIC)
- anti-racism and anti-oppression
what is relational inquiry - ✔✔an inquiry guided by conscious participation
with persons using relational skills including listening, questioning,
empathy, mutuality, reciprocity, self-observation, reflection, and sensitivity
to emotional contexts
relational inquiry requires - ✔✔- knowledge
- inquiry
- clinical skills (judgement, decision-making, competencies)
- particular way of being
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2 essential components of relational inquiry - ✔✔1. relational
consciousness
2. inquiry as action
what is relational consciousness - ✔✔- people are relational beings
situated and constituted through social, cultural, political, and historical
processes and communities
- consider intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual levels
- acknowledge that relationships are important
- understand that there are different types of relationships
what is inquiry as action - ✔✔- the "how to" of relational consciousness
- enter into each nursing situation inquiring into the relational experiences
of people (including ourselves, contexts, knowledge, meaningful purposes,
excellence in practice, and effective outcomes
- the way that you work as a nurse with relational consciousness
ex: COVID-19 doesn't allow partner/family in room during birth (how does
this affect their experience as a health event?)
what are the 3 approaches to family nursing - ✔✔1. "all nursing in family
nursing"
2. "family nursing"
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3. "family"
what is family as context - ✔✔- individual care in context of family
- not enough emphasis on family as an entire unit
- one person is center of care, parent is supporting/a resource but NOT the
center of care
ex: usually just focus on baby or mum, but no bed available for partner
what is family as client - ✔✔- each family member a client
- a whole family is considered a client to 1 care provider (family doctor), but
each member is an individual client
what is family systems - ✔✔- individuals AND family unit a focus of care
- individual focus on parent and baby but also holistic view of whole family
and how it is doing
- everyone in family is experiencing one member's illness in different way
what is family as a component of society - ✔✔- family a social institution
- family is a very important high-level concept
- what family looks like in north america is different than south africa
define family nursing using relational inquiry - ✔✔- focuses on relational
experience of connectedness and support (moves away from family as a
literal configuration of people)