Concepts for Nursing Practice
(1) Culture - ANSWERS-Pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-definitions, norms,
roles, and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in
a defined geographical region.
Significantly influence how people make decisions about treatment preferences,
medication adherence, self-care, and perceptions of illness, which in turn affects
nursing care and health care delivery.
(Casual beliefs about health: ex. natural, social, supernatural causes
Illness expression/Symptoms of Illness: manifestations & symptoms unique for different
cultures. ex. Anorexia fits westernized expression because risk factors are associated
with media and social pressure.
Taboos: stigmatized illnesses and behaviors. ex. mental illness)
pg 29 Giddens
(2) Health Promotion - ANSWERS-process of enabling people to increase control over,
and to improve, their health.
behaviors that promote optimal health across the lifespan within an individual, family,
community, population, and environment.
Involves Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention
(3) Ethics - ANSWERS-the study or examination of morality through a variety of
different approaches
(Societal [serve the larger community], Organizational [formal/informal
principles/policies that guide behaviors of members of an organization],
BioEthics/Clinical[ethics concerning biology sciences and patient specific issues],
Professional [standards and expectations of certain profession], Personal[Individual
ethical foundations and practices])pg 405
(4) Communication - ANSWERS-process of interaction between people in which
symbols are used to create, exchange, and interpret messages about ideas, emotions,
and mind states.
(linguistic, paralinguistic, and metacommunication)
(5) Evidence - ANSWERS-supports or disputes the efficacy of a treatment, the use of a
diagnostic tool, the transmission of a disease, or any number of scenarios relevant to
health care. 463
Discovery "Bench Research" vs. Patient Care- How evidence is discovered and
translated into patient care.
Evidence must be Replicable, Reliable, and Valid.
Evidence-Based Nursing - ANSWERS-an ongoing process by which evidence, nursing
theory, and the practitioners' clinical expertise are critically evaluated and considered, in
conjunction with patient involvement, to provide delivery of optimum nursing care for the
individual.
(Giddens 463)
(1) Culture - ANSWERS-Pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-definitions, norms,
roles, and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in
a defined geographical region.
Significantly influence how people make decisions about treatment preferences,
medication adherence, self-care, and perceptions of illness, which in turn affects
nursing care and health care delivery.
(Casual beliefs about health: ex. natural, social, supernatural causes
Illness expression/Symptoms of Illness: manifestations & symptoms unique for different
cultures. ex. Anorexia fits westernized expression because risk factors are associated
with media and social pressure.
Taboos: stigmatized illnesses and behaviors. ex. mental illness)
pg 29 Giddens
(2) Health Promotion - ANSWERS-process of enabling people to increase control over,
and to improve, their health.
behaviors that promote optimal health across the lifespan within an individual, family,
community, population, and environment.
Involves Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention
(3) Ethics - ANSWERS-the study or examination of morality through a variety of
different approaches
(Societal [serve the larger community], Organizational [formal/informal
principles/policies that guide behaviors of members of an organization],
BioEthics/Clinical[ethics concerning biology sciences and patient specific issues],
Professional [standards and expectations of certain profession], Personal[Individual
ethical foundations and practices])pg 405
(4) Communication - ANSWERS-process of interaction between people in which
symbols are used to create, exchange, and interpret messages about ideas, emotions,
and mind states.
(linguistic, paralinguistic, and metacommunication)
(5) Evidence - ANSWERS-supports or disputes the efficacy of a treatment, the use of a
diagnostic tool, the transmission of a disease, or any number of scenarios relevant to
health care. 463
Discovery "Bench Research" vs. Patient Care- How evidence is discovered and
translated into patient care.
Evidence must be Replicable, Reliable, and Valid.
Evidence-Based Nursing - ANSWERS-an ongoing process by which evidence, nursing
theory, and the practitioners' clinical expertise are critically evaluated and considered, in
conjunction with patient involvement, to provide delivery of optimum nursing care for the
individual.
(Giddens 463)
