NURSE-3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nursing Theory, Current Literature, Veterinary Medicine
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Differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care practices. Four concepts common in nursing theory: person (patient) What are the individualized needs of this person: environment. What outside conditions affect the patient: health. What constitutes health in this situation: nursing. Florence nightingale: differentiated the focus of nursing from the focus of medicine (the patient and their environment vs. the disease process), alter the patient"s environment so that the healing powers of nature can work. Hildegard peplau: nursing is an interpersonal process which results in a nurse-patient relationship, the nurse-patient relationship assists the patient. Dorothea orem: the nurse does for the patient what the patient is unable to do for themselves, the nurse works to restore the patient"s ability to perform self-care. Callista roy: the patient adapts to changing physiological, social, and psychological needs, nursing interventions assist the adaptive process.
