Nursing Education and Sensory System Development Quiz

It is important for a nursing student/nurse to be aware of a patient's strengths in order to help individuals/families use their strengths to cope with life challenges, promote healing, achieve their goals, and get the most out of living. Nurses need to know the individual’s and family’s strengths to be able to support them during health and illness, and in times of suffering, recovery, and healing.

The three sources of strengths that nurses consider are existing strengths, potential strengths (which can be developed into a strength), and deficits that can be turned into strengths.

The role of a nurse in working with a patient's strengths involves identifying the person and family’s strengths, determining which strengths could be helpful in the situation to help the person/family meet their goal, and assessing which strengths are available and which strengths can be developed.

Yes, deficits can be turned into strengths. The text suggests that deficits can be turned into strengths by considering the 'capacity to be, to do,' and by identifying any chance that a 'deficit' can be turned into a strength.

Relational Sensing focuses on our sense of relationship and connection with others, including perceiving non-verbal emotional signals.

Retraining the Eight Senses involves using sensory systems in new ways and learning to interpret information through a nursing lens.

The Nursing Process & Eight Senses involves outcomes, follow-up assessments, interventions, and nursing analysis based on information gathered from the eight senses.

Nursing students learn to select and interpret important sensory inputs in a clinical context to make informed decisions and take action.

Retraining senses is essential, and experienced nurses constantly adapt what they observe based on gained experience.

Nurse observations and interpretations can lead to identifying medication side effects and other health issues, impacting patient care.

Training and retraining sensory skills vary based on the nursing practice domain, such as acute care, critical care, neonatal nursing, and more.

Experiences that help retrain the senses include exposure to novel situations, learning from mistakes and obstacles, and practice.

Exposure to novel experiences prompts reflection, observation, and sharing with others, leading to heightened awareness and learning.

Learning from mistakes and obstacles, rather than being sources of shame, are opportunities for growth and new insights in nursing practice.

Nursing students and practicing nurses continually retrain their senses through diverse experiences, practice, and reflection.

Developing a professional nursing gaze involves being an engaged and sharp observer, leading to clinical judgment, decision-making, and quality care.

the need to acquire broad knowledge, skills, clinical reasoning, and ethical comportment

the learning and educational experiences involved in learning to nurse, including retraining the senses and reforming social engagement skills

five traditional senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch); three additional senses for nursing (auditory, olfactory, somatosensory) and three 'inner' senses (visual, awareness of internal bodily sensations, awareness of awareness)

making sense of information through their senses and basing clinical decisions on their understanding of the situation

hearing and sound, including crying, yelling, moaning, and equipment beeping

sight and images, including urine, stool, breath, wound discharge, and vaginal discharge

awareness of smells and odors

reflections on physical sensations and attention to mental aspects

by understanding why they exist, reframing behavior, and helping individuals gain insight into their behavior

consideration of the uniqueness of the person, situation, and context

observational skills, attunement to sounds, smells, touch, and the ability to grasp situations

integrating the nurse role into one's identity and learning through experiential and situated learning