Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
relational inquiry approach includes: - CORRECT ANSWER - - relational consciousness
- relational inquiry
relational consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER - is grounded in the assumption that
people are relational beings who are situated in and consituted through social, cultural, political
and historical process and communities
intrapersonally - CORRECT ANSWER - you consider what is going on within all the
people involved-- Ex. within you, others in a situation
interpersonally - CORRECT ANSWER - you notice what is going on among and between
people-- Ex. how people are acting in the situation, what they are ignoring and so forth
contextually - CORRECT ANSWER - consider what is going on around people and
situations-- structures forces influencing situation and shaping interpersonal and intrapersonal
responses
relational consciousness summary - CORRECT ANSWER - - sensitizes us to the relational
competencies that affect what happens at the point of care
- directs attention toward the "relational transaction: that occurring within and among people and
contexts
- enables us to be very intentional and consciously chose how to act in response to these
complexities and transactions
inquiry - CORRECT ANSWER - offers a method for this process of navigation, mediation
and decision making
, relational inquiry - CORRECT ANSWER - orients you to consciously examine and relate
to the interpersonal, intrapersonal and contextual forces shaping each nursing situation
half-open view - CORRECT ANSWER - nurses feel powerless to affect nursing care--
demoralizing impact-- focused on what they had not been able o change or do in the situation
and feeling responsible, they had filled to see what they had done
individualist approach - CORRECT ANSWER - is not only incongruent with the relational
complexities that are part and parcel of most contemporary nursing situations but also
insufficient for understanding and working within those complexities
depersonalizing phrase - CORRECT ANSWER - seemed to help nurses accept or even
justify limited care they were able to provide to these patients, who often waited for placement
on stretches in hallways for days at a time, with no privacy while using bedpans and received
minimal care-- nurses felt guilt-- but justified saying they were bed blockers
relational inquiry affecting nurse well-being - CORRECT ANSWER - - enables nurses to
consciously navigate within these kinds of complexities and enhance their ability to affect the
well-being of patients, nurses and the health care system
- this distress included frustration and resentment directed at themselves for failing to provide the
quality of care they believed they should be providing, at their managers who the nurses
perceived as putting them in such compromising positions and at educators who did not prepare
them for the nursing "realities" they faced
relational inquiry affecting patient and family well-being - CORRECT ANSWER --
subsequently, empowerment-- the capacity to define, analyze and act upon concerns in one's life
and living conditions-- joined treatment and prevention as an essential goal of health promotion
relational inquiry affecting system well-being - CORRECT ANSWER - - relational inquiry
draws attention to the ways in which nursing practice and the well being of patients and
populations are shaped by changing healthcare systems including the organizations and units
within which nurses practice and by wider social, political and economic trends