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• Man is a biopsychosocial being, a social being, a spiritual being, and the first component of nursing and primary consideration.
• Giving quality care is composed of supra system (individual, family, community).
• The concept of man forms the first foundational components of nursing and must be given primary consideration so that we can be able to provide individualized care.
• Health is a fundamental right of every human being and is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and no merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
• Being healthy means being able to function well physically and mentally and to express the full range of one’s potentialities within the environment in which one is living.
• Ability to maintain internal milieu is a fundamental need or component of nursing care.
• Ability to maintain homeostasis or dynamic equilibrium is a fundamental need or component of nursing care.
• Wellness is a condition in which all parts and subparts of an individual are in harmony with the whole system.
• Wellness is a choice, a way of life, and involves engaging in attitudes and behaviors that enhance quality of life and maximize personal potential.
• Research consumers often use research to improve client care.
• Bureaucratic Caring suggests that caring in nursing is contextual and is influenced by the organizational structure.
• A case manager works with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and to monitor outcomes.
• Nursing as an Art is concerned with skills that require proficiency and dexterity.
• Caring, as defined by Madeleine Leininger, is assistive, supportive and enabling experiences or ideas towards others with evident or anticipated needs to ameliorate or improve human condition or lifeways.
• A leader influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal which can be employed at different levels: individual client, family, groups of clients, colleagues, or the community.
• Culturally congruent care involves three action–decision care approaches: preservation of the client’s familiar lifeways, accommodations that help client adapt to or negotiate for satisfying care, and repatterning nursing care to help client moved towards wellness.
• Effective leadership is a learned process requiring an understanding of the needs and goals that motivate people, the knowledge to apply the leadership skills and the interpersonal skills to influence others.
• A manager manages the nursing care of individuals, families, and communities.
• Bureaucratic Caring, as proposed by Marilyn Ray, focuses on caring in organizations (e.g., hospitals) as cultures.
• Wellness factors include cognitive abilities, age, sex, environmental lifestyle, geographical location, culture, religion, standards of living, health beliefs, and previous health experiences.
• Theory of Human Care by Watson includes Carative Factors, which is the nursing commitment of care of the whole person, concerns for the health of individuals and groups.
• Theory of Caring by Swanson defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to a valued “others” toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility.
• Communication can also occur at an interpersonal level, if the communication occurs in a group of people.
• The 6 C’s of caring according to Sister Simone Roach are compassion, competence, confidence, conscience, commitment, and comportment.
• All individuals are caring, and develop their caring abilities by being true to self, being real, and being who they truly are.
• Communication can occur at an intrapersonal level, also known as self-talk, where the communication occurs in a single individual only.
• Communication is a basic component of all human relationships and has two purposes: to influence others and to obtain information.
• Caring is influenced by the role and position a person holds.
• Restoration of health in client education involves providing information about tests, diagnosis, treatment and medications, self-care skills or skills needed to care for a family member, and resources within the health care setting and community.
• Nursing as caring, according to Boykin and Schoenhofer, involves respect for people and respect for what matters to them, and emphasizes the importance of the nurse knowing the self as a caring person.
• Health promotion, disease prevention, health restoration and maintenance, and rehabilitation are different areas of client education.
• Disease prevention in client education involves health screening, reducing health risk factors, specific protective health measures, first aid, safety measures, and resources within the community.
• Caring for self, according to Mayeroff (1990), involves helping oneself grow and actualize one’s possibilities.
• Health care delivery system is an organized plan of health services.
• Client education is a right of all clients to help them better participate in their care and make informed care decisions.
• Caring Processes from Swanson’s Theory of Caring include Knowing, Being With, Doing For, Enabling, Maintaining Belief, and Caring for Self.
• Adapting to altered health and function in client education involves adaptations in lifestyle, problem-solving skills, strategies to deal with current problems, strategies to deal with future problems, information about treatments and likely outcomes, referral to other healthcare facilities or services, facilitation of a strong self-image, grief and bereavement counseling, and resources within the community.
• Health promotion in client education involves increasing a person's level of wellness, focusing on growth and development topics, fertility control, hygiene, nutrition, exercise, stress management, lifestyle modification, and resources within the community.
• Providers must perform a learning needs assessment that includes the patient's cultural, religious beliefs, emotional barriers, desires and motivation to learn, physical or cognitive limitations and barriers to communication.
• Health care delivery is rendering health care services to the people.