Nursing Women theories
Caring is the essence and central, a unifying and dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines, stresses the importance of understanding culture caring behaviors.
Madeline Leininger
The nursing touch as a communication technique includes-
Comforting approach that reaches out to patients to communicate concern and support. Relational that leads to a connection between the nurse and patient
Seeking to understand the meaning of an event in the life of the client without assumptions
Knowing
Client families can perceive caring behaviors through what way?
Providing Honest information
Listening to patient and family concerns
assisting families with implementing directive
Advocating for patient
Involving the family in care
Informing about services
Providing comfort
Reading passages from text
Assuring the patient services are available
Helping the patient do as much as their are able
Give an example of protective touch?
Fall prevention
Integrates the human caring processes with healing environments, incorpating the life-generating and life-receiving processes of human caring and healing for nurses and their patients.
Jean Watson
A nurse is providing client-centered care, what action would they demonstrate?
assisting the client and family to become actively involved in their care
Believing in the client in an effort to maintain faith in their ability to persevere through health event
maintaining belief
What are the outcomes of nursing presences?
relief of suffering, decreased in the sense of isolation and vulnerability, personal growth
Give an example of caring touch?
holding their hands, patting their backs
Nursing care and caring are crucial in making positive differences in patients' health and well-being outcomes
Kristen Swanson
What are the three categories of touch?
Task-oriented, Caring, and protective
Assisting the client with activities that he/she would complete independently if they were able
Doing for
Listening to the patient involves?
Seeing things in their point-of-view
Open-minded and non-judgemental
Caring means that persons, events, projects and things matter to people; caring determines what matters to a person
Patricia Benner
Person-to-person encounter conveying a closeness and sense of care is called?
Presence
To be present, both emotionally and physically without burdening the client: sharing feelings
Being with
What is a form of non-contact touching?
Eye-contact
What are the common themes of nursing theories?
Communications and humanity
Mutual respect
Understanding the context of a person's life and illness
Advocating, improving their outcome
When a nurse is listening and "taking-in" what the client says includes?
identifying the correct meaning of the client's message
Supporting a client through a life event, either known or unknown
Enabling
What is an example of task-orientated touch?
Taking a BP, changing bandages or bedding