NURS 1000H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Environmental Health

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Influences the way people think, feel and act. People should be self-reliant and responsible for their own care and the care of theirs. Caring helps patients understand and adjust to illness. Caring is the essence of nursing: distinguishing characteristic. Purpose is to care and assist individual toward improvement in condition. Caring is: nurting, dependent on needs of the person, must reflect the patient"s own culture, no cure without caring but there is caring with curing. Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, maintaining belief. Verbal vs nonverbal to convey meaning decreased pain, increased joy hope. Objectives: 4 min concepts of nursing metaparadigm, discuss health and wellness, review dimensions of health and wellness continue, explore ways of knowing, determinates of health. A measure of our status in each of the dimensions of health. Physical health social health intellectual/mental health emotional health environmental health spiritual health.