Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Man
• Health
• Environment
• Nursing
• Defined Nursing: The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in
“
his recovery.”
• Focuses on changing and manipulating the environment in order to put the patient in the
best possible conditions for nature to act.
• Identified 5 environmental factors: fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage,
cleanliness/sanitation and light/direct sunlight.
• Considered a clean, well-ventilated, quiet environment essential for recovery.
recovery.
• Deficiencies in these 5 factors produce illness or lack of health, but with a nurturing
environment, the body could repair itself.
• Defined Nursing: The act of assisting others in the provision and management of
“
Example: Nurse guides a mother how to breastfeed her baby, Counseling a psychiatric
client on more adaptive coping
cop ing strategies.
Virginia Henderson’s Definition of the Unique Function of Nursing
• Defined Nursing: “Assisting the individual, sick or well, in the performance of
those activities contributing to health or it’s recovery (or to peaceful death)
that an individual would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or
knowledge”.
• Identified 14 basic needs :
1. Brea
Breath
thin
ing
g norma
normalllly
y
2. Eating
Eating and drinki
drinking
ng adequat
adequately
ely
3. Elim
Elimin
inat
atin
ingg body
body wast
wastes
es
4. Moving
Moving and maint
maintain
aining
ing desir
desirabl
ablee positio
position
n
5. Slee
Sleepin
ping g and rest
restin
ing
g
6. Sele
Select
ctin
ing
g suita
suitabl
blee cloth
clothes
es
7. Maintaining
Maintaining body temperature
temperature within
within normal
normal range
8. Keeping
Keeping thethe body
body clean
clean and well
well-gr
-groome
oomed d
9. Avoidin
voidingg danger
dangerss in the
the envir
environme
onment nt
10. Communicating
Communicating with with others
11. Worshipping according to one’s one’s faith
12. Working in such a way that one feels feels a sense of accomplishment
accomplishment
13. Playing/participating in in various forms of recreation
14. Learning, discovering or satisfying
satisfying the curiosity that
that leads to normal development and health and using
using
available health facilities.
1.
1. The human being is a unified whole, possessing individual integrity and manifesting characteristics that
are more than and different from the sum of parts.
2. The individual and the environment are continuously exchanging matter and energy with each other
3. The life processes of human beings evolve
e volve irreversibly and unidirectionally along a space-time
continuum
4. Patterns identify human being and reflect their innovative wholeness
5. The individual is characterized by the capacity for abstraction and imagery, language and thought,
sensation and emotion
• Nursing is participation in care, core and cure aspects of patient care, where CARE is the
sole function of nurses, whereas the CORE and CURE are shared with other members of
the health team.
• The major purpose of care is to achieve an interpersonal relationship with the individual
that will facilitate the development of the core.
• Nursing is broadly grouped into 21 problem areas to guide care and promote the use of nursing judgement.
• Nursing is a comprehensive service that is based on the art and science and aims to help people, sick or well,
cope with their health needs.
21 Nursing Problems
• Nursing is a process of action, reaction, a nd interaction whereby nurse and client share
information about their perception in the nursing
n ursing situation
• Nursing is concerned with promotion health, preven ting illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health.
• Nursing is a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional,
personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human care transactions
• She defined caring as a nurturant
n urturant way or responding to a valued client towards whom the nurse feels a personal
pe rsonal
sense of commitment and an d responsibility.
responsibility. It is only demonstrated interpersonally that results in the satisfaction of
certain human needs. Caring accepts the person as what he/she may become in a caring environment
• Carative Factors:
1.
1. The promotion of a humanistic-altruistic system of values
2. Instillation of faith-hope
3. The cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and others
4. The development and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings.
5. The systemic use of the scientific problem-solving method for decision making
6. The promotion of interpersonal teaching-learning
7. The provision for supportive, protective and corrective mental, physical, socio-cultural and spiritual
environment
8. Assistance with the gratification of human needs
9. The allowance for existential phenomenological forces