NURS1004 - Midterm Exam
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Metaparadigm - Answer Set of concepts and propositions that sets forth the phenomena
with which a discipline is concerned. For nursing; the areas that are the most general
basis of nursing practice.
Metaparadigm Person - Answer A system of interacting parts, a system of competing
human needs, or an entity with biological, psychological, social, and spiritual
dimensions. Involves sickness and wellness and is beyond the individual.
Spirituality - Answer A difficult term to define. Involves patients quality of life, health and
sense of wholeness are affected. It is unique to each person and encompasses the idea
that a person is more than their bodies. It is universal and impacted by illness
Holism - Answer The care of an entire person. The body, mind, and spirit are
interconnected and if one is challenged, others are affected. Everything has to be
understood in relation to the whole or the sum of the parts.
System Theories - Answer Aids in conceptualizing the complexity of human health.
Accounts for the whole entity, its component parts and the interactions between them.
Dorothy Johnson - Answer Theorist that created the Behavioural System Model. Goals of
a persons life are driven by needs and natural differences. Person has 7 subsystems,
each with a goal, set of behaviours, and choice.
Betty Neuman - Answer Theorist. Persons relationship and reaction to stress. Each
person has a unique set of response patterns and the rule of the nurse is to keep the
system stable.
Wellness - Answer A subjective experience of health; overall well-being. It includes both
physical and mental components and a persons perception of their overall
accomplishment in life.
Illness - Answer A subjective experience of loss of health, or living with disease. It can
be the result of signs and symptoms experienced by the person as part of a disease
process.
Disease - Answer A subjective state of health, displayed by pathology that can be
detected by medical science.
Environment - Answer Complex, multi-dimensional idea. Involves social and physical
components, can be internal and external and is ever-changing.
Physical Environment - Answer Natural: Air, water, soil, climate
, Built: housing, water/sewer systems, urbanization
Social Environment - Answer Cultural: beliefs, practices, ideologies
Economic: income, employment status, stock market
Political: government, policies, special interest groups
Global Health - Answer the optimal well being of all humans from the individual and
collective perspective. Encompasses prevention, treatment, and care, while focusing on
the improvement of health for all and health equity.
Global Burden of Disease - Answer a way to describe the world's health. Examples;
mortality and morbidity, disability-adjusted life year (DALY)
Global Health Issues - Answer Noncommunicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases,
global violence, gender equality.
Nursing - Answer Evidence informed practice profession grounded in the integration of
art and science. The art is reflected by nurses behaviour, relationships and attitudes.
The science is based on the body of knowledge of the discipline of nursing and its
synthesis with the natural, social and behavioural sciences.
The Weir Report - Answer Established in the 30s/40s. Involved the Survey of Nursing
Education in Canada. Insufficient classroom and instruction and variety o clinical
experience and recommended transfers of hospital based education to general
education.
Mary Southcott - Answer Was appointed superintendent of nurses in St. John's in 1903.
She started the first training school for nurses in NL and was a firm believer in
Nightingales method of training nurses.
Professional Identity - Answer a sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics,
norms, and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting,
and feeling like a nurse.
Knowledge - Answer Must be theoretical, practical and clinical. Includes application,
communication and dissemination.
Spirit of inquiry - Answer Includes exploration, asking questions, examining various
sources and life-long learning.
Accountability - Answer Taking responsibility for ones actions and willingness to be
answerable to ones actions.
Autonomy - Answer Involves working independently an decision-making within ones
scope of practice
Advocacy - Answer A change agent for clients. Supports or speaks out for a cause
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Metaparadigm - Answer Set of concepts and propositions that sets forth the phenomena
with which a discipline is concerned. For nursing; the areas that are the most general
basis of nursing practice.
Metaparadigm Person - Answer A system of interacting parts, a system of competing
human needs, or an entity with biological, psychological, social, and spiritual
dimensions. Involves sickness and wellness and is beyond the individual.
Spirituality - Answer A difficult term to define. Involves patients quality of life, health and
sense of wholeness are affected. It is unique to each person and encompasses the idea
that a person is more than their bodies. It is universal and impacted by illness
Holism - Answer The care of an entire person. The body, mind, and spirit are
interconnected and if one is challenged, others are affected. Everything has to be
understood in relation to the whole or the sum of the parts.
System Theories - Answer Aids in conceptualizing the complexity of human health.
Accounts for the whole entity, its component parts and the interactions between them.
Dorothy Johnson - Answer Theorist that created the Behavioural System Model. Goals of
a persons life are driven by needs and natural differences. Person has 7 subsystems,
each with a goal, set of behaviours, and choice.
Betty Neuman - Answer Theorist. Persons relationship and reaction to stress. Each
person has a unique set of response patterns and the rule of the nurse is to keep the
system stable.
Wellness - Answer A subjective experience of health; overall well-being. It includes both
physical and mental components and a persons perception of their overall
accomplishment in life.
Illness - Answer A subjective experience of loss of health, or living with disease. It can
be the result of signs and symptoms experienced by the person as part of a disease
process.
Disease - Answer A subjective state of health, displayed by pathology that can be
detected by medical science.
Environment - Answer Complex, multi-dimensional idea. Involves social and physical
components, can be internal and external and is ever-changing.
Physical Environment - Answer Natural: Air, water, soil, climate
, Built: housing, water/sewer systems, urbanization
Social Environment - Answer Cultural: beliefs, practices, ideologies
Economic: income, employment status, stock market
Political: government, policies, special interest groups
Global Health - Answer the optimal well being of all humans from the individual and
collective perspective. Encompasses prevention, treatment, and care, while focusing on
the improvement of health for all and health equity.
Global Burden of Disease - Answer a way to describe the world's health. Examples;
mortality and morbidity, disability-adjusted life year (DALY)
Global Health Issues - Answer Noncommunicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases,
global violence, gender equality.
Nursing - Answer Evidence informed practice profession grounded in the integration of
art and science. The art is reflected by nurses behaviour, relationships and attitudes.
The science is based on the body of knowledge of the discipline of nursing and its
synthesis with the natural, social and behavioural sciences.
The Weir Report - Answer Established in the 30s/40s. Involved the Survey of Nursing
Education in Canada. Insufficient classroom and instruction and variety o clinical
experience and recommended transfers of hospital based education to general
education.
Mary Southcott - Answer Was appointed superintendent of nurses in St. John's in 1903.
She started the first training school for nurses in NL and was a firm believer in
Nightingales method of training nurses.
Professional Identity - Answer a sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics,
norms, and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting,
and feeling like a nurse.
Knowledge - Answer Must be theoretical, practical and clinical. Includes application,
communication and dissemination.
Spirit of inquiry - Answer Includes exploration, asking questions, examining various
sources and life-long learning.
Accountability - Answer Taking responsibility for ones actions and willingness to be
answerable to ones actions.
Autonomy - Answer Involves working independently an decision-making within ones
scope of practice
Advocacy - Answer A change agent for clients. Supports or speaks out for a cause
