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What is the primary goal of promoting health in nursing?
What is the primary goal of promoting health in nursing?
Which of the following is NOT a role of nursing?
Which of the following is NOT a role of nursing?
What is the main difference between a patient and a client in nursing?
What is the main difference between a patient and a client in nursing?
What is the role of a nurse in restoring health?
What is the role of a nurse in restoring health?
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What is the term for a person who uses the services of a healthcare provider, including patients receiving medical care or treatment?
What is the term for a person who uses the services of a healthcare provider, including patients receiving medical care or treatment?
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Which of the following is not a component of health, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Which of the following is not a component of health, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO)?
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What is the main difference between disease and illness, as defined in the content?
What is the main difference between disease and illness, as defined in the content?
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According to Florence Nightingale, what is the primary focus of nursing?
According to Florence Nightingale, what is the primary focus of nursing?
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Which of the following statements best reflects Henderson's definition of nursing?
Which of the following statements best reflects Henderson's definition of nursing?
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), what is the scope of nursing practice?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), what is the scope of nursing practice?
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Study Notes
Introduction to Nursing
- Definition of health by WHO: Complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease.
- Definition of disease: Pathological changes in body or mind structure/function.
- Definition of illness: Personal response to disease.
Definitions of Nursing
- Florence Nightingale: Founder of modern professional nursing, improved sanitary conditions during the Crimean War.
- Nightingale's definition: Utilizing the patient's environment to aid recovery.
- Virginia Henderson: Nursing as assistance with activities related to health, recovery, or peaceful death.
- WHO definition of nursing: Autonomous and collaborative care across all ages, promoting health, preventing illness, and caring for the ill, disabled, and dying.
Recipient of Nursing
- Patient: Individual under medical care or treatment.
- Client: Person paying for professional healthcare services.
- Consumer: Individual using healthcare provider services.
Aims of Nursing
- Promotion of health: Enhance quality and length of healthy life.
- Prevention of illness: Reduce illness risk.
- Restoring health: Conduct diagnostic measurements and health assessments.
- Care of the dying: Support coping with disability or death.
Roles of Nursing
- Caregiver: Provide direct patient care.
- Communicator: Facilitate effective communication between patients and healthcare teams.
- Decision maker: Make judgments on patient care.
- Provider of holistic care: Address physical, emotional, and social needs.
- Patient advocate: Represent the needs and rights of patients.
- Manager of care: Organize and oversee healthcare services.
- Teacher: Educate patients and families about health and wellness.
- Counselor: Provide emotional support and guidance.
- Leader: Take initiative in healthcare settings and improve practices.
- Researcher: Contribute to nursing knowledge and practices through research.
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