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Theory& EBP
Question | Answer |
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What is the purpose of nursing theories? | Give us perspective for assessing our patients situations and organizing data and methods for analyzing and interpreting info; helps to identify the focus, means and goals of practice |
What are the four major domains that nursing theories address? | person, health, environment, nursing |
What is the relationship between the nursing process and nursing theories? | The nursing theories are the foundation for the nursing process; shaped how we do the nursing process |
What was Henderson's theory? | Organized the theory into 14 basic needs of the whole person& includes phenomenon from the following domains of the patient: physiological, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental; frames around needs of individual |
What was Orem's theory? | Focused on self-care deficits; focused on patients self-care needs& aims at helping patient perform self-care and manage their own health problems; we step in when there is a self-deficiency |
What was Neuman's theory? | Based on stress& clients reaction to stressors; composed of 5 concepts that interact with each other: physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, spiritual; concepts interact with internal/external environmental factors |
What was Roy's theory? | Views patients as an adaptive system; help person adapt to change in physiological needs, self concept, role function, and interdependent relations during health& illness |
What is theory based nursing practice? | A process rather than a theory; provides a systematic process for the delivery of nursing care *A theory can direct HOW a nurse uses the nursing process |
What are the benefits of evidence based practice in nursing? | Helps nurses make effective, timely, and appropriate clinical decisions in response to the broad, political, professional, and societal forces that nurses and other health care professionals are confronted with daily |
Descrive the role of nursing research as it influences current and future nursing practice? | Improves care of people in clinical setting, identify new knowledge, improve professional education& practice, use resources effectively, develop greater autonomy& strength as a profession, provide evidence base nursing practice |
What are two methods of nursing research? | Quantitative & Qualitative |
What is quantitative research? | Involves concepts of basic and applied research |
What is qualitative research? | Conducted to gain insight by discovering meanings, based on belief that reality is based on various and differing perceptions |
Describe the role of the nurse in protecting patients rights | Use informed consent: Participants receive full& complete info, pt understands info, pt has free choice to participate, pt understands how their confidentiality will be kept |
Identify sources of current patient care literature and research findings | MEDLINE & Cumulative index of nursing and allied health lit are among the BEST known comprehensive databases to search for scientific knowledge in healthcare; OVID offers several diff online databases as well |