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Defining Nursing - correct ans:- Establishes purpose/function
, - Differentiates from other occupations - establishes parameters and boundaries
- Influences health policy at local state and national levels - used in laws and nurse practice acts
- Aid in developing educational curricula and research agendas
Nursing definitions will continue to evolve due to: - correct ans:- Changing knowledge and skills
Individual groups can not agree
Florence Nightingales Definition - correct ans:- Simple
- Dealt with basic needs of the patient
- Nature acting upon him
- Use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and proper diet
- At the least expense to the patient
Post WWII Influence (1950's and later) - correct ans:- Added technology and skills
- Recognizes emotion as r/t health, illness, and nursing care.
Virginia Henderson's definition of nursing - correct ans:- By 1960, this definition was widely accepted
and represented and emergence of contemporary nursing
Virginia Henderson's definition - correct ans:- The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual,
sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or recovery (or to a peaceful
death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge; and to do
this in a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.
Dorothea Orem's Definition (1959) (nursing theorist) - correct ans:- Captures the self care theory on
nursing:
- Nursing gives direct assistance to a person, as required, because of the person's specific inabilities in
self care resulting from a situation of personal health.
Martha Roger's Definition (1961) - correct ans:- Includes the nursing process in her definition: