Aaron's Deck

• Florence Nightingale - the ultimate educator
• Giver of Information - Nurse are responsible for teaching patients about preventing and managing medical conditions.
• Facilitator of Learning - The clinical facilitator role includes facilitating students transfer of nursing theory to practice, monitoring students progress, defining and supporting learning difficulties as well as communicating and liaising with clinical staff and faculty to provide students support.
• Coordinator of Teaching - Nurse educators provide ongoing mentorship and serve as example to various stages of hands on learning.
• Advocate for the Client - They can help patients make informed decisions regarding their health, including helping them navigate a complex medical system, translating medical terms and helping patients make ethical decisions.
• Dorotea Orem - Self Care Theory
• Betty Neuman - System Model Theory
• Jean Watson - Theory of Human Caring
• Patricia Benner - Novice to Expert Theory
• Florence Nightingale - Environmental Theory
• Dorothea Orem‘s Self-Care Theory - It defined Nursing as “The act of assisting others in the provision and management of self-care to maintain or improve human functioning at home level of effectiveness.”
• Primary - Promotion of client wellness and protection of normal line of defense by strengthening flexible line of defense through the reduction of risk factors and stress prevention.
• Secondary - Protection of basic structure by strengthening internal line of resistance. (ex. Treatment of symptoms, energy conservation)
• Tertiary - Promotion of existing reconstitution by supporting existing strengths and resource.
• The caregiver must be educated on the same information provided to the patient is given to provide support, feedback, and reinforcement of self-care consistent with prescribed regimens of care.
• The role of family caregivers is central to the quality of care for older adults in the community.
• The teaching–learning process helps to ensure that the situation is a rewarding for both the clients and the nurse educators.
• The Clinical Care teams usually include groups of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals that help to establish new lines of collaboration, communication, and cooperation to better serve their patient’s needs.
• Attending Physician - has responsibility for all decisions made that affect your care. Based on your diagnosis.
• Nurse Practitioner - A nurse practitioner or a physician’s assistant (often called a PA) works closely 2 8 attending coordinate with the physician to daily care.
• Nurse Manager - The nurse manager oversees the unit's daily operations and is an excellent resource if you need assistance during your hospital stay.
• Support service provider - They enhance and expand primary clinical services. These services include Laboratory, X- ray, physical and occupational therapist, social work, social support services, long term care, home care assistance.
• Nurse - During hospitalization, nurses provide 24-hour bedside care and assistance responsible for providing care and support to patients in various healthcare settings.
• Dietitian - They helps plan meals and dietary needs as requested by your attending physician. It’s important to our dietitians that food choices are met as considering personal, cultural or religious food preference.
• Therapist - Physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapists are a few examples of those who may be part of extended healthcare team which specializes in various type of recovery.
• Interpreter - An interpreter is available to provide interpretation between, patients, providers, and family.
• Education is the most powerful tool for the Nurse Educator to ensure the transfer of skills and knowledge to the family members.
• Knowledge of cultural customs enables health care providers to offer better care and help avoid misunderstandings.
• Acculturation - is a process in which an individual adopts, acquires and adjusts to a new cultural environment as a result of being placed into a new culture, or when another culture is brought to someone.
• Assimilation - the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
• Culture - the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.
• Competence - a complex integration of knowledge including professional judgment, skills, values and attitude.
• Cultural Awareness - understanding of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, esp. differences in attitudes and values.
• Cultural Diversity - multiculturalism , is a system that recognizes and respects the existence and presence of diverse groups of people within a society
• Cultural Relativism - the view that a culture can only be understood and judged by the standards, behaviors, norms, and values within the culture and not by anything outside.
• Ethnic - The term is used to categorize groups of people according to their cultural expression and identification, racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin may be used to describe someone’s ethnicity
• Ethnocentrism - the attitude that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others.
• Ideology - It is a system of ideas that aspires both to explain the world and to change it.
• Subculture - a group within a larger culture or society that has its own distinctive patterns of behavior, beliefs, values, or interests.
• Transcultural - "extending through all human cultures " or "involving, encompassing, or combining elements of more than one culture