Environmental Theory

The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his redovery

Assisting Individuals sick of well in performing activities to help him gain Independence as rapidly as possible.

A humanistic science concern with maintaining and promoting health and preventing illness and caring for and rehabilitating the sick and disabled

-The goal of nursing care is to promote patient adaptation

The practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform of their own behalf in maintaining life, health, and well-being

A helping profession that assists individuals and groups in society to attain, maintain and restore health

Science of Caring is concerned with how nurses express care to their patients

What are the 5 process of nursing?

What are the caring in nursing practice?

A dynamic (active) state in the life cycle

Soundness and wholeness of bodily and mental functioning

Positive health symbolizes wellness

A state and process of being a whole person

A condition in which all parts and subparts of an individual are in harmony with the whole system

Good health by occupying, pleasant, stimulating environments, that support well-being

Recognizing creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills

Coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships

Recognizing the need for physical activity, sleep, diet and nutrition

Satisfaction with current and future financial situations

Personal satisfaction and enrichment derived from ones work

Developing a sense of connection, belonging, and

a well-developed support system

Expanding our sense of purpose and meaning in life

Transition stage The person believe something is wrong Experience some symptoms

Does self-treatment and delays contact with health care professionals

Seeks advice, support for decision to give up some activities

Seeks confirmation from family and friends

Acceptance of the illness

Seeks advice of health professionals for the following

reasons:

= Validation of real illness

= Explanation of symptoms

May regress to an earlier behavioral stage

Becomes more passive and accepting

Accepts/rejects health professional's suggestions

The person becomes a client dependent on the health professional for help

Gives up the sick role and returns to former

roles

and functions

An alteration in body functions resulting in reduction of capacities or a shortening of the normal life span

Defines health in terms of individual's ability to fulfill societal roles such as performing work.

The state of not being sick.

Views people as a physiologic system with related functions

Identifies health as the absence of signs and symptoms of disease or injury.

Aim of treatment is to restore the ability of the person to adapt or to cope with the environment

Views health as creative process and diseases a failure in adaptation or mal-adaptation

Highest aspiration of people is fulfillment and complete development

is the apex of the fully developed personality

Health is seen as a condition of actualization or realization of a persons potential

Identification of risk factors that results from the interaction of agent, host and environment are important in promoting and maintaining health

Used primarily in predicting illness

All factors external to the host that may or may not predispose the

person to the development of disease

any factor or stressor that can lead to illness or disease

Person's who may not be at risk of acquiring a disease

This model explains why individuals engage in health activities

Describes multidimensional nature of persons as they interact within their environment

Defines health as a positive, dynamic state

Enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health

Nurse must identify clients strength to help them reach maximum functioning and quality of life

The active process of achieving health and

remaining healthy

necessary to sustain life

is the most essential of all basic survival needs

stimulates both the mind and body.

helps maintain the body's structural integrity and health by enhancing circulation and respiration.

important in maintaining health

essential for life and comfort.

are necessary to maintain life,

The behavioral process through which grief is resolved, often influenced by culture and custom

The response to the emotional experience of the loss and is manifested in thoughts, feelings and behavior

The subjective response to a loss through the death a person with whom there has been a significant relationship

Believes own death can be avoided

Understands death is final

Does not understand concept of death

Believes death is reversible, a temporary departure or sleep

Begins to understand own mortality (temporality)

Associates death with aggression or violenc

Begins to understand own mortality (temporality)

May fantasize that death can be defied (escaped), acting out defiance through reckless behavior

Views death in religious and philosophic terms (afterlife, reincarnation etc

Fears of lingering (slow to end) death

Has increased attitude /awareness towards death that is influenced by religious and cultural beliefs

Fears prolonged illness

Encounters death of parents and some peers

Experiences peak of death anxiety

Accepts own mortality

Sees death as having multiple meanings