NRSI 202 Exam 2 Foundations

What is the essence of nursing practice? - ANSCaring for the patient Watson's Transpersonal Caring - ANSPlan the care before we cure the disease. It focuses on health promotion, as well as the treatment of diseases. Swanson's Theory of Caring - ANSHer theory covers all age groups with 5 caring processes. Uses strategies in multiple age groups in multiple healthcare settings. True or False: Enabling a patient IS an aspect of caring. - ANSTrue Leininger's Transcultural Caring Theory - ANSInvolves knowing and understanding different cultures concerning nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs, and values to provide meaningful and efficacious nursing care services to people's cultural values health-illness context. True or False: When patients sense that health care providers ARE sensitive, sympathetic, compassionate, and interested in them as people, they USUALLY become active partners in the plan of care. - ANSTrue An ethic of care is concerned with what? - ANSRelationships between people and with a nurse's character and attitude toward others. Caring is an interaction of what? - ANSMutual respect and trust. Providing presence is a what? - ANSPerson-to-person encounter conveying a closeness and sense of caring. Nursing presence is the _______________ between a nurse and a patient. - ANSconnectedness How do you create a connection through touch? - ANS-Noncontact touch​ -Eyes, Smiling, etc... -Contact touch​ ~Task-oriented touch​ *Vital Signs ~Caring touch​ *Massage ~Protective touch