PN 155 FINAL Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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PN 155
Institution
PN 155
Caring in Primary
•Means concern about a person, event, project and things
•The ethic of caring must be learned by the nurse experimentally
•Caring helps nurses identify successful interventions and this concern then guides
future caregiving
Culturally competent care
•Explicit u...
PN 155 FINAL Questions and Correct
Answers the Latest Update
Caring in Primary
✓ •Means concern about a person, event, project and things
✓ •The ethic of caring must be learned by the nurse experimentally
✓ •Caring helps nurses identify successful interventions and this concern then guides
future caregiving
Culturally competent care
✓ •Explicit use of culturally based care and health knowledge in sensitive, creative and
meaningful ways to fit the general lifeway's and needs of individuals or groups for
beneficial and meaningful health and well being or to help them face illness,
disabilities or death
✓ •Need to exhibit specific ability, knowledge sensitivity, openness, and flexibility
toward the appreciation of cultural difference
Culturally Congruent care
✓ •The uses of sensitive, creative, and meaningful care practices to fit with the general
values beliefs and lifeway's of a client.
✓ •Need to determine how to provide care that does not conflict with their values
Freedom of information and protection of privacy act
✓ •Federal legislation that protects personal info, including health info
✓ •Delineates how private sector organizations may collect, use, of disclose personal
information
✓ •Individuals have the right to access their information
✓ the coordinated efforts of the musculoskeletal and nervous system to maintain
proper balance, posture and alignment
Why do we practice body mechanics
✓ •To prevent injury to ourselves, our workers and out patients
✓ •To reduce fatigue in muscle groups, thereby preventing overexertion injury
✓ •To make good habit of good body - mechanics
✓ •To act as a role model for other
Body alignment
✓ relationship of ones body part to another body part along horizontal or vertical line.
Correct alignment reduces stress and injury on musculoskeletal, maintains adequate
muscle tone and balance
How assess the object to be moved
✓ •LOOK: Charts, ADLs, environment, Can they weight bear?
✓ •LISTEN: to others and ask questions
✓ •FEEL: When you touch does the person respond? Stiffen?
How to prepare your body for the move
✓ •Correct stance, wide base of support
✓ •Feet apart, knees slightly flexed
✓ •Balanced, pelvic tile, contract abdominals
✓ •The area on which a object rests
✓ •Feet apart - shoulder width
✓ •Weight evenly distributed
✓ •Body aligned and balanced
Principles of body mechanics
✓ •Work at comfortable height
✓ •Balance object above base of support
✓ •Use smooth coordinated movements
✓ •Face direction of task
✓ •Avoid opposing forces such as gravity and friction
✓ •Use whole hand grip
✓ •Squat do not stoop
✓ •Use your body when pushing or pulling on object
✓ •Use momentum
✓ •Use mechanical aid and get assistance if needed
How to reduce the risk of injury
✓ •Exercise - strengthens, stretch muscles, and maintains mobility in joints
✓ •Nutrition - Excess weight places unnecessary strain on muscles and alter alignment
Florence Nightingale
✓ •Focused on the importance of the environment, including clean living areas, fresh
air, and presence of light
✓ •Demonstrated how to think about patients and their environment. By shifting the
focus from disease processes toward an environment conductive to healing
✓ •She differentiated the role of nursing from that of medicine
✓ •Can not be quantified or measured
✓ •Must understand the perspective of the person in the situation
✓ •Descriptions the patient gives about his or her health
Examples of qualitative research
✓ •Ethnography
✓ •Phenomenology
✓ •Grounded theory
Ethnography
✓ Involves observation and description of behaviour in social settings and is derived
from anthropology, where it provides the means to study the culture of groups of
people
Phenomenology
✓ The focus is on lived experience of specific phenomenon from the perspective of the
people who are in the situation
Grounded theory
✓ Means of generating hypotheses and theories about social processes from the data
Quantitative Research
✓ •Can be precisely measured and quantified
✓ •Fall within the positivist paradigm and provide rigorous, systematic, objective
examination of specific concepts and their relationships
✓ •Experimental Research
Example of Quantitative Research
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