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1) Image
2) Education
3) Advancement in practice
7 Trends in Nursing 4) War
5) Workforce issues
6) Licensure/regulation
7) Research

(ADPIE)
Assessment
Diagnosis
Nursing Process
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation

define legal boundaries of nursing practice based on
Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
licensure, regulation, and certification

- Sets tone for entry into different levels of practice
Licensure/regulation laws - Ensure accountability of all professional nurses
- Licensing varies from state to state

collecting, processing, and implementing research
findings to improve clinical practice, the work
Evidence-based practice
environment, or patient outcomes (knowledge
development)

patients who were paralyzed and could not breathe on
Iron Lung
own would "live" in the iron lung so they could live

Life Star helicopters used to transport patients

every state determines how a licensed nurse practices -
Nurse Practice Act
allows different duties

Jean Watson Theory of Caring

, 1) Clinical caritas
2) Transpersonal caring
3 Elements of Theory of 3) Caring moments/caring occasion (moments when
Caring you know caring has occurred)


Need to be PRESENT!

human-to-human connectedness in a nurse-patient
Transpersonal caring
encounter

- core of intentional caring intertwined w/ excellent
skills
Watson's Definition of - nurse/patient equally valued
Nursing - connections between nurse/patient
- Theory of Human Caring sought to balance the
orientation of medicine

Believed nurses practice in 3 realms:
- Delegated
Koloroutis - Independent
- Interdependent (communicates w/ other members of
healthcare teams to ensure full scope of care)

created modern nursing during the Crimean War (1853)


- pioneer of modern nursing
- came from wealth
- known for sanitation/improved hygiene
- never set out to create theory, wanted to define was
Florence Nitghtingale
nursing was
- saw nursing as more holistic
- 1st nurse to use statistical analysis
- "The Lady with the Lamp"
- helped make nursing a respectable occupational for
women (didn't support idea of men in nursing)

HEALTH & ILLNESS
Nightingale recognized 2 - you could still have health if you have illness
components of nursing: - may not always cure the disease, but we implement
health

, - nursing is independent, yet parallel profession to
medicine
- the reparative process does not always mean
medicine
- we treat the human being, not always the disease
Flo's Definition of Nursing - all factors in patient's environment influence healing
(inpatient or outpatient care)


- recognize negative factors, correct them
- nurses highly trained/educated, dignified, highest
moral character

- believed to treat individuals, whether sick or well (and
to treat someone to recovery or death)
Virginia Henderson
- helping ppl "gain independence" and be at peace
even if this means death

Henderson's Definition of Nurses provide patient with dignity, confidence, support
Nursing → more than just medicine

Best known for theory development and maternal child
Weidenbach
nursing

1) Patient - entered healthcare system and is receiving
care, teaching or advice
2) Need for help - anything that helps the patient cope
w/ situations affecting health/wellness

Weidenbach's 5 Terms to
3) Clinical Judgment - likeliness to make sound decisions
Define Nursing
(improves w/ knowledge and experience)


4) Nursing skills - acts carried out to improve health
5) Person - (nurse or patient) endowed w/ unique
potential

adds significance to nursing knowledge as we better
define, distinguish, identify nursing's relationships
Historical reflection
concerning research, knowledge, theory, and practice
(Rolfe, 1998)

complements quantitative research by making the
Historical research values, beliefs and attentive premise of the profession
explicit

original evidence
Primary sources
(letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews)

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