NURS 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Empirical Evidence, Environmental Health, Eye Contact
4 Nov 2017
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Nurs 1000h lecture 1 week 2 health, ways of knowing. Identify four main concepts of the nursing metaparadigm: discuss health and wellness, review dimensions of health and the wellness continuum, explore ways of knowing in nursing. Caring: heart of nursing, nightingale was the first. Influences the way people think, feel and act. People should be self-reliant and responsible for their own care and the care of theirs: domains: physical, psychological, interpersonal and social. Equates excellent nursing practice with caring: caring helps patients understand and adjust to illness. Benner, con"t: defines health as a state of being: Leininger (transcultural: caring is the essence of nursing: distinguishing characteristic, caring is: nurting, dependent on needs of the person, must reflect the patient"s own culture, no cure without caring but there is. Purpose is to care and assist individual toward improvement in condition caring with curing.
