NSE 11A/B : Nursing theorists and their theories for each metaparadigm.docx
13 Apr 2014
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An individual who has recuperative powers within self to restore health. Absence of disease and the ability to use one"s own abilities to the highest potential. A profession for women separate and distinct from medicine, using nature"s laws (environment) of health in the service of humanity. A holistic, adaptive system with cognator and regulator subsystems acting to maintain adaptation(coping. , healthy) in the four adaptive modes: physical, self concept- group identity, role function and interdependence. In general, the individual"s total well-being; refers to the regular patterns of people and their environments that result in maintaining wholeness and human integrity. To promote adaptation in individuals or groups in order to help them achieve health. A living, constantly growing totality comprising mind, body, emotion and soul. Unity and harmony within mind, body and soul. Individual in a given cultural context that has learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways that guide individual thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways.
