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Theory - ANSWER Helps explain an event by defining ideas or concepts, explaining
relationships among the concepts, and predicting outcomes
Offers rationales for how and why nurses perform specific interventions and for
predicting patient behaviors and outcomes
Serves as the foundation for the art and science of nursing
Nursing Theory - ANSWER Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain,
predict, or prescribe nursing care
Helps to identify the focus, means, and goals of the practice
Enhance communication and accountability for patient care
Phenomenon - ANSWER The term, description, or label given to describe an idea or
responses about an event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of
situations
May be temporary or permanent
Concepts - ANSWER Words or phrases that identify, define, and establish structure
and boundaries for ideas generated about a particular phenomenon
Ideals and mental images
Assumptions - ANSWER Accepted truths based on values and beliefs
Adaptation - ANSWER The process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling people,
as individuals or in groups, use conscious awareness and choice to create human and
environmental integration
Adaptation Level - ANSWER Represents the condition of the life processes on 3 levels
Integrated, Compensatory, Compromised - ANSWER What are the 3 adaptation
levels?
Coping Processes - ANSWER Innate or acquired ways of responding to the changing
environment
, Environment - ANSWER All conditions, circumstances, and influences that surround
and affect the development and behavior of humans as adaptive systems
Nursing - ANSWER Health care profession that focuses on the life processes and
patterns of people with a commitment to promote health and full life - the potential for
individuals, families, groups, and the global society
Goal of Nursing - ANSWER The promotion of adaptation in each of the four modes
Physiologic-Physical Mode, Self concept-group identity, Role function, Interdependence
- ANSWER What are the four modes of nursing?
Physiologic-Physical Mode - ANSWER Physiologic part of the mode in RAM is
associated with the way people as individuals interact as physical beings with the
environment
Behavior in this mode is the manifestations of the physiologic activities of all the cells,
tissues, organs, and systems comprising the human body
Oxygenation, nutrition, elimination, activity/rest, protection - ANSWER What are the 5
basic needs?
Heparin - ANSWER Class: Anticoagulant
MOA: Prevents conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin and prothrombin to thrombin
Outcome: Prevention of thrombi
Route: Subcutaneous, IV
Side Effects: Bleeding
Anticoagulant - ANSWER What medication class does Heparin fall in?
Warfarin - ANSWER Class: Anticoagulant
MOA: Interferes with blood clotting
Outcome: Prevention of clotting or PE
Route: PO
Side Effect: Bleeding
Anticoagulant - ANSWER What medication class does Warfarin fall in?