NURS 208 Exam 1 Notes – Study Guide, Key Concepts & Nursing
Review
Care plans & Care maps are used to: - correct answer ✔✔Put together info & decide which
patient needs what
Nursing as defined by ANA policy statement: - correct answer ✔✔-Protection, promotion, &
optimization of health and abilities
-Prevention of illness & injury
-Alleviation of suffering through diagnosis & treatment of human response
-Advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, & populations
-Diagnosis & Treatment of human responses to actual or potential health care problems
Caring is - correct answer ✔✔the "essence of nursing"
Nursing has the distinction of: - correct answer ✔✔Being responsible for the caring that clients
receive in the health care system
What is nursing? - correct answer ✔✔-Caring
-An art
-A science
-Holistic
-Patient centered
-Adaptive
-A helping profession
-Concerned with health promotion, health maintenance, & restoration
,Nursing is based on: - correct answer ✔✔Theories
Theories - correct answer ✔✔Help explain how we go about things
Jean Watson's Theory: - correct answer ✔✔Philosophy & Science of Caring
Jean Watson was a _ working at _;_ - correct answer ✔✔Nurse theorist, University of Colorado;
Center for Human Caring
Jean Watson's Philosophy & Science of Caring states caring is: - correct answer ✔✔-Central to
nursing
-A moral idea, rather than a behavior
-Holistic
-Not inherited-learned
-Difficult to quantify
-Preservation of human dignity & humanity
Watson feels that caring in nursing is threatened by: - correct answer ✔✔-Procedure & skill
oriented culture
-Different levels of nursing
10 Carative factors: - correct answer ✔✔Intrinsic factors- unseen aspects of nursing that are the
core of nursing
Watson's 10 Carative Factors: - correct answer ✔✔1) Altruistic values
2) Sensitivity to others
3) A warm, genuine, & empathetic helping-trust relationship
,4) Interpersonal teaching-learning
5) Scientific problem solving (nursing process)
6) Acceptance of own feelings (negative & positive)
7) Acceptance of others' feelings (negative & positive)
8) Provide for comfortable, private, safe environment
9) Assist the patient with attaining lower & higher order of needs
10) Phenomenology of existential psychology
Another name for Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔Clinical Reasoning
Critical Thinking is: - correct answer ✔✔-Essential for good decision making
-An intellectual process
-Ability to use required knowledge in situations of ambiguity, uncertainty, & risk
Intellectual Process involved in critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔Developing rational,
justifiable responses to situations where there are no definitive answers & where not all
relevant information is available
Mutilogical Problems - correct answer ✔✔Problems that can be analyzed & approached from
more than one, often conflicting, points of views or frames of reference
Multilogical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔Requires knowledge of more than one fact to logically
& systematically apply concepts to a clinical problem
Characteristics of Critical Thinking: - correct answer ✔✔-Rational/reflective
-Constructively Skeptical
-Autonomous
, -Creative Thinking
-Fair thinking
-Focus on what to believe & do
2 types of Emotional Intelligence: - correct answer ✔✔1) Personal competence
2) Social Competence
Personal Competence - correct answer ✔✔-How we manage ourselves; motivation, self-
awareness, & self-regulation
6 categories under Personal Competence: - correct answer ✔✔1) Self awareness
2) Emotional awareness
3) Self-regulation
4) Self- Control
5) Trustworthiness
6) Conscientiousness
Self Awareness - correct answer ✔✔Knowing ones internal states, preferences, resources, &
intuitions
Emotional Awareness - correct answer ✔✔Recognizes ones emotions & their effects
Self-regulation - correct answer ✔✔Managing one's internal states, impulses, & resources
Self-control - correct answer ✔✔Keeping disruptive emotions & impulses in check
Trustworthiness - correct answer ✔✔Maintaining standards of honesty & integrity
Review
Care plans & Care maps are used to: - correct answer ✔✔Put together info & decide which
patient needs what
Nursing as defined by ANA policy statement: - correct answer ✔✔-Protection, promotion, &
optimization of health and abilities
-Prevention of illness & injury
-Alleviation of suffering through diagnosis & treatment of human response
-Advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, & populations
-Diagnosis & Treatment of human responses to actual or potential health care problems
Caring is - correct answer ✔✔the "essence of nursing"
Nursing has the distinction of: - correct answer ✔✔Being responsible for the caring that clients
receive in the health care system
What is nursing? - correct answer ✔✔-Caring
-An art
-A science
-Holistic
-Patient centered
-Adaptive
-A helping profession
-Concerned with health promotion, health maintenance, & restoration
,Nursing is based on: - correct answer ✔✔Theories
Theories - correct answer ✔✔Help explain how we go about things
Jean Watson's Theory: - correct answer ✔✔Philosophy & Science of Caring
Jean Watson was a _ working at _;_ - correct answer ✔✔Nurse theorist, University of Colorado;
Center for Human Caring
Jean Watson's Philosophy & Science of Caring states caring is: - correct answer ✔✔-Central to
nursing
-A moral idea, rather than a behavior
-Holistic
-Not inherited-learned
-Difficult to quantify
-Preservation of human dignity & humanity
Watson feels that caring in nursing is threatened by: - correct answer ✔✔-Procedure & skill
oriented culture
-Different levels of nursing
10 Carative factors: - correct answer ✔✔Intrinsic factors- unseen aspects of nursing that are the
core of nursing
Watson's 10 Carative Factors: - correct answer ✔✔1) Altruistic values
2) Sensitivity to others
3) A warm, genuine, & empathetic helping-trust relationship
,4) Interpersonal teaching-learning
5) Scientific problem solving (nursing process)
6) Acceptance of own feelings (negative & positive)
7) Acceptance of others' feelings (negative & positive)
8) Provide for comfortable, private, safe environment
9) Assist the patient with attaining lower & higher order of needs
10) Phenomenology of existential psychology
Another name for Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔Clinical Reasoning
Critical Thinking is: - correct answer ✔✔-Essential for good decision making
-An intellectual process
-Ability to use required knowledge in situations of ambiguity, uncertainty, & risk
Intellectual Process involved in critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔Developing rational,
justifiable responses to situations where there are no definitive answers & where not all
relevant information is available
Mutilogical Problems - correct answer ✔✔Problems that can be analyzed & approached from
more than one, often conflicting, points of views or frames of reference
Multilogical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔Requires knowledge of more than one fact to logically
& systematically apply concepts to a clinical problem
Characteristics of Critical Thinking: - correct answer ✔✔-Rational/reflective
-Constructively Skeptical
-Autonomous
, -Creative Thinking
-Fair thinking
-Focus on what to believe & do
2 types of Emotional Intelligence: - correct answer ✔✔1) Personal competence
2) Social Competence
Personal Competence - correct answer ✔✔-How we manage ourselves; motivation, self-
awareness, & self-regulation
6 categories under Personal Competence: - correct answer ✔✔1) Self awareness
2) Emotional awareness
3) Self-regulation
4) Self- Control
5) Trustworthiness
6) Conscientiousness
Self Awareness - correct answer ✔✔Knowing ones internal states, preferences, resources, &
intuitions
Emotional Awareness - correct answer ✔✔Recognizes ones emotions & their effects
Self-regulation - correct answer ✔✔Managing one's internal states, impulses, & resources
Self-control - correct answer ✔✔Keeping disruptive emotions & impulses in check
Trustworthiness - correct answer ✔✔Maintaining standards of honesty & integrity
