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key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| conceptual framework | a group of related ideas, statements or concepts |
| concept | abstract ideas or mental images of phenomena or reality |
| paradigm | a pattern of shared ujnderstandings or assumptions about reality |
| practice discipline | fields of study in which central focus is performance of a professional role |
| evidence-based practice | the use of substination or evidence in makeing clinical decisions |
| client/person | recipient of nursing care |
| health | degree of wellness or well-being the client experiences |
| nursing | attributes, characteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care on behalf of the client |
| interpersonal skills | all verbal and non-verbal activities used in communication |
| cultural care diversity | health and health care are influenced by elements of social structure; human caring varies among cultures in its expression processes and patterns |
| universality theory Leininger | care is the essence of nujrsing and the dominant, distinctive and unifying feature of nursing |
| human caring theory | the practice of caring is cental to nursing and is the unifying focus for practice |
| goal attainment theory Imogene King | dynamic interaction systems |
| systems model Neuman | model based on individual's relationship to stress, reaction to it, and reconstitution factors leading to adaptation |
| critical pathways | multidisciplinary guidelines for client care designed to achieve predetermined outcomes |
| standards of care | the skills and learning commonly possessed aby members of a profession |
| quality assurance program | ongoing systematic process to promate excellence on health care provided to clients |
| quality improvement | evaluation and inprovement of the quality of health care vased on internal assessment by health care professionals and increasing public awareness |
| outcome evaluation | focus on demonstratable changed in client health status as a result of nursing care. |