NUR 162 Test 1 Ch.1
- ANA Standards
Answer assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, im- plementation, evaluation
- Theory of animism
Answer Belief that good and evil spirits bring health or illness (that objects have a spirit)
- Aims of Nursing
Answer To promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health, to facilitate coping with disability or death.
- Nursing Practice Acts
Answer regulate the scope of nursing practice and protect public health, safety and welfare (overseen by individual state boards of nursing)
- Nursing Process
Answer Serves as the organizational framework for the practice of nursing. --- A systematic method by which nurses plan & provide care for pts. --- Consists of 5 dynamic & interrelated phases
assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, & evaluation.
- Culture
Answer Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
- Culture assimilation 1 / 2
Answer when minority groups living within the dominant group loose the cultural characteristics that make them different.
- Culture shock
Answer The feelings a person experiences when placed in a different culture
- Cultural imposition
Answer The belief that everyone should conform to your own belief system.
- Cultural blindness
Answer Ignores differences and proceeds as if they did not exist
- Ethnocentrism
Answer Belief that one's ideas, beliefs, and practice are the best or superior, or are most preferred to those of others
- Health
Answer a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
- Illness
Answer the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal process involving changed level of functioning
- Wellness
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