NUR 302 Lecture 7: Major concepts
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Human caring: the moral ideal of nursing in which the nurse brings ones whole self-relationship with the (cid:449)hole self of the perso(cid:374) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:272)are for i(cid:374) order to prote(cid:272)t that perso(cid:374)"s (cid:448)ul(cid:374)era(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) Human health experience: subjective experience about health, health beliefs, values, sexual orientation, and personal preferences that encompasses health, wellness, disease and illness death. Healing: a life long journey into wholeness, seeking harmony and balance in once own life and in family, community and global relations. Healing can lead to more complex levels of personal understanding and meaning and may be synchronous but not synonymous with curing. Right relationship: a process of connection among or between parts of the whole that increases energy, coherence, and creativity in the body-mind-spirit system. Illness: a subjective experience of symptoms and suffering to which the individual ascribes meaning and significance, not synonymous with disease, a shift in the homeodynamic balance of the person.
