PRELIM

• 6 Cs in the nursing profession

  compassion

  confidence

  competence

  conscience

  commitment

  comportment
• Compassion is an emotional response to suffering that motivates one to act.
• Competence is having the ability to do something successfully or efficiently.
• Confidence is the belief in oneself, one's abilities or qualities.
• Confidence is having trust or faith in oneself, one's abilities, or someone else.
• Conscience is the part of your mind that tells you what is right or wrong.
• Competence refers to being skilled at something; proficient.
• Comportment refers to how someone behaves or carries themselves.
• Code of ethics – nursing have placed a high value on work and dignity of others. Nurse are guided by their code of ethics which is a means to monitor the professional behavior of its members
• ICN- International Council of Nurses
• Patient is the center of your practice.
• The patient is the central focus of the health care system
• Preventive - focuses on educating and equipping clients to reduce and control risk factors for disease Ex. Stress management / immunization / use of seat belts
• Primary health care- emphasis on health promotion. Ex. prenatal care / well baby clinic / nutrition counselling
• Secondary – diagnosis and treatment of acute illness and injury. Ex. Hospital settings
• Tertiary – specialized and highly technical care Ex. Intensive care / cancer centers / burn centers
• Restorative – follow up care for restoring health. Ex. Home health car
• 6. Continuing health care – long term or chronic health care / hospice care / in- house respite care.
• wellness - it represents the highest level of optimal health.
• Illness - at the opposite end, represents an impaired state of health
• HEALTH - the area along the wellness- illness continuum
• Man as a biological being – composed of living cells which are arranged from simple to complex.
• Man as a physiologic being – multiple physiological processes occurs in the different organs and systems that makes up man.
• Man as a psychosocial being – man have consistent set of attitude and behavior which is particular to a person.
• Man as a psychosocial being – man have consistent set of attitude and behavior which is particular to a person.
• Man as an intellectual being – through the process of growth and development, man accumulate and process information and gain knowledge though formal and informal education.
• Man as a spiritual being – in every culture, man have spiritual practices and belief and man will always believe that there is someone more powerful than him.
• Illness is an altered level of functioning in response to a disease process.
• Modifiable – may be changed such as smoking, nutrition, health education and awareness, and exercise • Nonmodifiable – cannot be changed, such as gender, age, developmental level, and genetic traits
• • Connotative meaning –subjective/ individual perception and interpretation. • Denotative meaning-commonly accepted definition of a particular word. The person is familiar to the word.
• Failure to secure an informed consent- liability for battery
• HIPAA - Health Insurance

  Portability and

  Accountability Act of

  1996
• plaintiff writes a statement called a complaint>>
• Civil litigation- legal exchange between individuals.

  Criminal litigation –involve the state or federal government bringing charges