AACN DOMAINS
Focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
Domain 2: Person-Centered Care
The conditions in the environment where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks.
Social Determinants of Health
King's Theory
the nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population
Provision 2
In adult patients with hypertension, how effective is a lifestyle modification program in controlling blood pressure over one year?
Intervention is missing
Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.
Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development.
Refers to principles that guide a person’s behavior. Closely tied to moral philosophy. There are commonly accepted principles that include autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
Ethics
Who's model views the patient as a holistic, adaptive system interacting with a changing environment. The model's primary goal is to promote adaptation in individuals and groups, leading to improved health, quality of life, and a dignified dying process.
Roy's Adaptation Model of Nursing.
This standard emphasizes the nurse's responsibility to implement patient care, ensuring safety, quality, and advocacy for the best health outcomes.
Standard 5: Implementation
This evidence-based system focuses on enhancing communication, leadership, situation monitoring, and mutual support among healthcare teams to improve patient outcomes.The competencies are communication, team leadership, situation monitoring and mutual support.
TeamSTEPPS
Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Domain 5: Quality and Safety
Process by which nurses make decisions based on nursing knowledge (evidence, theories, ways/patterns of knowing), other disciplinary knowledge, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning. This process is used to understand and interpret information in the delivery of care.
Clinical Judgement
Caring is the core of nursing and that it is essential for promoting health, preventing illness, and restoring well-being. This theory emphasizes the importance of embracing humanistic-altruistic values, practicing loving-kindness, and treating individuals with dignity.
Watson's theory of caring
The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient.
Provision 3
These four core concepts — person, environment, health, and nursing — make up this essential framework guiding nursing theory and practice."
Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.
Domain 1: Knowledge for nursing practice
A problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values.
Evidence-Based Practice
Who's theory emphasizes the patient's ability to care for themselves and the nurse's role in assisting them when they have self-care deficits
Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
Nurses must be able to utilize the appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain care services. They must also take care to ensure these services are safe, effective, and responsible
Standard 17: Resource stewardship
This type of wrongful act involves deliberate/intentional actions, such as assault or false imprisonment, that violate a patient's rights.
intentional tort
Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
An exchange of information, thoughts, and feelings through a variety of mechanisms. The definition encompasses the various ways people interact with each other, including verbal, written, behavioral, body language, touch, and emotion.
Communication
This theory focuses on the importance of manipulating a patient's environment to promote healing. It identifies key environmental factors like fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light as essential for patient recovery.
Nightingale's Environmental Theory
This standard highlights the nurse’s responsibility to communicate effectively in all areas of practice, promoting respect, clarity, and shared understanding with patients and the healthcare team
Standard 10: Communication
This structured framework guides nurses in delivering individualized care, beginning with gathering patient data and culminating in reviewing the outcomes against set goals
ADPIE - nursing process