Chapter 1
An objective state of ill health
Disease
Foundation of Canadas health care system
Primary Health Care
Founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
a system of concepts, assumptions, expectations, beliefs, and theories that supports and informs research. It provides a structure for understanding and investigating a particular phenomenon.
Conceptual Framework
The optimal well-being of all humans from the individual and collective perspective and is considered a fundamental human right, which should be accessible to all
Global Health
subjective experience of loss of health
illness
Key component of Canadas social safety net
Medicare
Built a British hotel in Crimea
Mary Seattle
suggests patients are better able to recover when they maintain some independence over their own self-care
dorothea orem's theory
Focuses on the social determinants of health, wellbeing, poverty and sustainability.
Sustainable development goals (SDGs)
3 levels of disease prevention
Primary, secondary, tertiary
Health promotion, disease & injury prevention, diagnosis & treatment, rehabilitation and supportive care
The first Nightingale School of Nursing was established here
St Thomas Hospital in London
A body of knowledge that encompasses definitions of a person, environment, health and nursing
Metaparadigm
AI(MRI/CT scans), Telehealth, Wearable devices, Centralized data records
Health care trends of 2024
Medical, behavioural & socioenvironmental
3 recent approaches to health
Focuses on Personal health services
Primary Care
Standard model of nursing
The nightingale method
Viewed the patient as an entirely irreducible whole, inherently and holographically connected with the universal environment
simultaneity theory
Regulation and public interest
The role of Nova Scotia college of nursing
-Health services
-Employment/working conditions
-Education and literacy
-Physical environments
-Social support networks
-Personal health practices and coping skills
-Social environments
-Healthy child development
-Biology and genetic endowment
-Culture
-Financial and social status
-Gender
This recommended that the government improved indigenous health, create a Health Council of Canada to measure and track the performance of the health care system and ban extra billing on diagnostic services such as MRIs
The Romanow Report
These were designed to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Euro-Canadian society but replacing their traditional medicine with biomedicine
Indian Hospitals
The belief that everyone in the family or system is affected by each of its members. This theory focuses on the interrelatedness of the various persons as opposed to an analysis of an individual in the group.
system theory
incorporated into nursing role statements and nursing education curricula
Policy Advocacy