Nursing Theorists and their Nursing Metaparadigm – Flashcards

Person: recipient of nursing care Environment: external (temp, bedding, ventilation) and internal (food, water, medications) Health: not only to be well, but to be able to use well every power we have to use (every part of person is well) Nursing: alter or manage the environment to implement natural laws of health

Person: embodied person living in the world who is a "self-interpreting being, that is, the person doesn't come into the world pre-defined, but gets defined in course of living life" Environment: social environment with social definition and meaningfulness Health: human experiences of health or wholeness Nursing: caring relationship that includes care and study of lived experiences of health, illness, and disease

Person: whole with parts that function as a unity Environment: internal and external stimuli; world within and around humans as adaptive systems (residual-related to patient's experience with illness; focal-immediate and apparent cause of problems; contextual-other causative factors) Health: state and process of being and becoming an integrated and whole human being Nursing: manipulation of stimuli to foster successful adaptation

Person: unity of mind-body-spirit/nature; embodied spirit Environment: nonphysical energetic environment; vibrational field integral with person where nurse is not only in environment but nurse is the environment Health: harmony, wholeness, and comfort Nursing: reciprocal transpersonal relationship in caring moments guided by Caritas processes

Person: unique beings who are in the midst of becoming and whose wholeness is made manifest in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors Environment: any context that influences or is influenced by the designated client Health: live the subjective, meaning-filled experience of wholeness; wholeness involves a sense of integration and becoming wherein all facets of being are free to be expressed Nursing: informed caring for well-being of others

Person: encompasses the patient (who has problems for which expert nursing services are needed or sought) and the nurse Environment: focuses outside the organism within context of culture Health: implies forward movement of personality and other ongoing human processes in direction of creative, constructive, productive, personal and community living Nursing: therapeutic, interpersonal processes between nurse and patient

Person: recipient of nursing care who is composed of biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual components Environment: external environment Health: based upon patient's ability to function independently Nursing: assist the person, sick or well, in performance of activities

Person: human being, family, group, community, or institution Environment: totality of an event, situation, or experience that gives meaning to human expressions, interpretations, and social interactions in physical, ecological, sociopolitical, and/or cultural settings Health: state of well-being that is culturally defined, valued, and practiced (not defined by what nurse sees, but how culture defines health) Nursing: activities directed toward assisting, supporting, or enabling needs in ways congruent with cultural values and lifestyle(s) of recipient(s)