Therapeutic Com
Helping patients clarify problems and identifying solutions.
What is therapeutic communications?
Nursing is “ a service for people that enhances healing and
health by methods that are humanistic and primarily
noninvasive”
What nursing theory did Hildegard Peplau promote regarding nursing?
This is the first thing to do when a nurse is deciding on a nursing teaching plan for a newly diagnosed diabetic.
What is ascertaining the patient's level of recognition and need for learning?
This will be the most important component that will determine the success or failure of the patient teaching plan.
What is setting realistic goals?
This is the perfect definition of describing acculturation.
What is "it is a process of learning a different culture to adapt to a new or changing environment"?
It ends when the goal is achieved.
What is a therapeutic relationship?
So
it is with medicine; the function of an organ becomes obstructed;
medicine so far as we know, assists nature to remove the obstruction, but
does nothing more. And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put
the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
What belief about nursing did Florence Nightingale proclaim in one of her books?
This is the basic teaching/learning concept of all patient teaching plans.
What is going from simple to complex information?
This patient factor is considered the most important when determining if a teaching program on smoking cessation is appropriate at this time.
What is the patient's perceived need and/or motivation?
The nurse learns what the illness means to the patient and how the patient's beliefs can help mediate the stressors
What does a transcultural caregiver understand about diversified care? (Cultural competence)
Don't worry, you will be just fine and I know the biopsy will show no cancer.
What is false reassurance?
The Self Care Model – human beings have the
power to act deliberately. “patients wish to care
for themselves”.
A “self care deficit” occurs when a person cannot take care of
themselves and the RN determines what that deficit is and
provides support.
Which nursing theory was held by
Dorothea Orem?
This is the type of teaching modality used for traumatic brain injury patients when teaching a physical skill.
What is using psychomotor teaching?
This is the best nurse's action when dealing with a patient who is reluctant to perform a newly taught, self-care technique. ie. wound care, self-injection, etc.
What is "asking/assisting the patient to explore and identify their concerns regarding their self-care?
This is the best nursing intervention when the client refuses to talk with the physician unless a shaman is present.
What is, "the nurse seeks out a shaman for their client"?
This skill/emotion is clearly related to a positive therapeutic relationship outcome.
What is empathy?
“Ideas and ideals associated with my philosophy and theory of human caring
are concerned with spirit rather than matter, flux rather than form, inner
knowledge and power rather than circumstance”
Care and love are the most universal and most mysterious of cosmic forces
Which nursing theory was promoted by Jean Watson?
This model recognizes "perceived self-efficacy" in their Behavior Specific Cognitions and Affect .
What is the Pender's Health Promotion Model?
Those patients, who have a low level of this, have a lower incident of seeking preventative care.
What is health literacy?
This is the most important indicator in receiving a poorer quality of health care.
What is poverty?
They are ultimately responsible for the patient's health decisions and choices.
What is, the patient?
3 basic assumptions
a)nursing focus is the care of human beings
b)goal is the health of individuals and health care for groups
c)humans are open systems in constant interaction with their environment
What are the three basic assumptions held by Imogene King?
"Preparation" is one of the stages in using this Theory of change as a guide in patient education.
What is Prochaska's Theory of change?
Establishing a walking path in the middle of your city is a great example of this.
What is any answer including community empowerment, health promotion, and primary prevention?
This is important information when dealing with a person from a patriarchal culture.
What is, "who needs to be present at the patient interview, or, who makes the final decision in the patient's choices in care, or, anything that the class agrees is a good answer?