Module 1: Theoretical Foundation In Nursing PDF

MODULE 1: THEORETICAL FOUNDATION IN NURSING MODULE 1: 1NUR6|Ms. Ma Georgina Manzano CORE COMPETENCIES AND Transcriber: Jenaya Alena R. Soriano...

MODULE 1: THEORETICAL FOUNDATION IN NURSING MODULE 1: 1NUR6|Ms. Ma Georgina Manzano CORE COMPETENCIES AND Transcriber: Jenaya Alena R. Soriano RESPONSIBILITIES 7. Strives to compensate its practitioners by providing INTRODUCTION freedom of action, opportunity for continuous professional growth and economic security. PROFESSION is an occupation, which is compensated, o We can withhold any orders that could harm requiring specialized knowledge acquired through long the patient (patient advocate). and intensive academic preparation. A SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE include a rationale that is scientific and 2012 CORE COMPETENCIES OF NURSING structured. § A nurse is a person educated and licensed to perform activities that will promote health, prevent It is a specialized field of practice, which is founded upon and treat illnesses. the theoretical structure of science of that discipline and o Promotion of health includes to those who accompanying practice abilities. are healthy, those with symptoms, and those who are hospitalized. NURSING § Elements of competency that provides continuous § Nursing is both science and art since man is and initiation of key area of responsibilities. These physical, social, and psychological. It is a holistic core competencies include: approach, therefore these aspects are affected if a. Client care – integration of knowledge, skills, there is one or more deteriorated. attitudes, and values that underpin effective a. INDEPENDENT NURSING ACTION – are the tasks performance. that a nurse can perform without input from b. Leadership and Management – all activities another discipline, particularly without a are coordinated by nurses (i.e. ward leaders). physician's order (e.g. positioning a patient, This includes coordinating with patients and teaching, providing water, etc.). facilities, auditing the devices, calling for b. DEPENDENT NURSING ACTION – this category maintenance, and checking of technologies encompasses all of the nursing interventions for its functionality. that nurses perform at the direction of a c. Research – improves strategies, which physician. Nurses cannot initiate these addresses the complex needs of patients, on interventions of their own accord (e.g. drug nursing care. Without research, these nursing prescriptions, inserting urinary tubes, etc.) care would be stagnant. CRITERIA FOR A PROFESSION CLIENT CARE 1. Utilizes in its practice a well-defined and organized 1. Practice in accordance with legal principles and body of specialized knowledge i.e. on the code of ethics (e.g. bioethics, justice, and equal intellectual level of higher learning. This includes care) in making personal and professional having a syllabus in nursing curriculum. judgment. 2. Constantly enlarges the body of knowledge it uses o It includes the patient bill of rights, and being and improves its techniques of education and aware of your own tendencies (e.g. fear of service by the use of SCIENTIFIC METHOD. mentally challenged patients). 3. Entrusts the education of its practitioner to 2. Utilizes the NURSING PROCESS in the interdisciplinary institutions of higher levels. care of clients that empowers the clients and 4. Applies its body of knowledge in practical services promotes safe quality care. that are vital to human and social welfare. These o The systematic planning of management with services are understandable to patients in where patients of certain illness. Supporting decision- they can grasp information. making, recovery, etc. 5. Functions autonomously in the formation of 3. Maintains complete and up-to-date recording and professional policy and in control of professional reporting. It is the nurse’s responsibility to accurately activity thereby (e.g. board officials who mandate chart the patient’s information. policies). o Whatever is missing, nurses answer and 6. Attracts individuals of intellectual and personal doctor’s orders are carried out (indicated by a qualities who exalt service above personal gain double line). and who recognize their chosen occupation as a 4. Establishes collaborative relationship with life work. colleagues and other members of the team to enhance nursing care and other related services. It Page 1 of 4  is the COMMUNICATION aspect between about to be discharged and even the difficult healthcare professionals, patients, and facilities. ones. 5. Promotes professional and personal growth and o It is weighing things; associated with being a development. This includes seminars and workshops patient advocate and honesty. A state of where continuing education program is carried out being righteous, impartial, or fair and prioritize (number of hours is credited for license). the welfare of patients. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS OF JUSTICE Reflects justice. It is not absolute, especially for patient welfare. 1. Demonstrates management and leadership skills to HONESTY provide safe and quality care. Supervision of HCP EXAMPLE. If the patient ask if they’re going to die, you redirect the question in order to on facilities and administration for appropriate protect their welfare. nursing care. Fidelity and commitment. It is not just to 2. Demonstrates accountability for safe nursing LOYALTY cover mistakes but to put down policies and practice. Whatever decisions made, nurses need to being loyal to the patients. Understanding the state of the patient; a face or answer the consequences. patient is a patient (acceptance), this 3. Demonstrate management skills to deliver health TOLERANCE includes continuing nursing care despite programs and services effectively to specific client difficult behavior. groups in community. o This includes healthcare education i.e. teach B. PRUDENCE – the ability to regulate and discipline and leads patients to their needs and fills in the oneself with reason. It includes skill and proper responsibility of doctors when they are absent. judgment in the use of resources, and caution as to 4. Manages a community based health facility for danger or risk, especially when faced with health promotion and partnerships. uncertainty. 5. Demonstrates ability to lead and supervise nursing o EXAMPLE. Nurse Aldrin withhold giving a staff i.e. chief nurses, nurse aids, nurse staff, and medication that has a side effect to a patient head nurse. who is 2 months pregnant. Nurse Aldrin 6. Utilizes appropriate mechanisms for networking, consulted a doctor about it. linkages, and referrals. Ensuring partnership with o This is thinking before acting; if not sure, do not different units and institutions, and referring to a do anything because there should be a more specialized care. rationale that is scientific. RESEARCH COMPONENTS OF FORTITUDE Analyze and think before creating decisions. This reflects the nursing care plan which 1. Engages in health related research with or under SOUND JUDGEMENT encompasses stopping, thinking, and the supervision of an experienced researchers. clarifying. 2. Evaluates research study utilizing guidelines in the EXAMPLE. Drug analysis conduct of a written research critique. Instilled with having a sound judgment and RELIABILITY o Higher levels searching for a journal article, being able to regulate with reason is TRUST. evaluating its content, and assessing if it should be applied to the modern techniques and C. FORTITUDE – strength of mind that engages an learnings. individual to face danger or bear pain with 3. Applies the process in improving client care in courage. This can improve outcomes, reduce partnership with a quality improvement, assurance, disparities, and promote social and economic and nursing audit team. equality. o Evaluate based on effectiveness. Ask the o EXAMPLE. Nurse Remy refused to assist in an question “should there be changes? If yes, will operation that will terminate the life of an you allow it?”. unborn fetus. She stood up with her decision even if it was against the doctor’s orders. PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL QUALITIES o Loyalty is not loyalty without courage. This profession is autonomous. If you think it is not right, stand up for it. A. JUSTICE – refers to implementation of what is just based on determination of rights according to the COMPONENTS OF FORTITUDE rules of law or equity. In the professional scope, Rising above the situation. It is a profession justice is understood as fair, equitable, and MOTIVATION that initiates and moves us. appropriate treatment of persons. RESOURCEFULNESS It is the ability of coming up with something o EXAMPLE. Nurse Maria gave bed bath to all when there is scarce materials. This is evident patients who are either comatose, critically ill, Page 2 of 4  in disasters and adversities (e.g., nurses during the COVID pandemic). But he entered the Dominican orders with the help of Pope Innocent IX. He was sent to EXAMPLE. A student nurse helping a woman Cologne to study under Albertus Magnus give birth along the sidewalk. The pope directed him to attend the Council of Lyons and he took the journey despite being far from well. D. TEMPERANCE – refers to moderation or self-restraint in actions and language. It is the control of life’s 1274 He stopped at the Castle of Niece where he essential functions which is sleep, hunger, and was carried to Cistercian Fossanova and emotional needs. died. The sisters did not give up his body which became controversial. o EXAMPLE. Nurse Joy gave the 12 noon MARCH 7 1274 St. Thomas Aquinas died. medicines to 8 patients under her care. Even though her co-staff are eating lunch at the JULY 18 1323 St. Thomas Aquinas was canonized by Pope John XXII pantry, she continued giving medicines to her patients. The feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas and JANUARY 28 publication date of the Summa Theologica. - This is why nurses are not allowed to administer care for their relatives in hospitals because it can restrain ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY them from objectives due to emotional needs. § Elizabeth was sixteen years old when Franciscan friars came in Thuringia in 1223 and taught her all FACES OF NURSING about the principles of Francis of Assisi. She then made the decision to live her life in accordance ST. THOMAS AQUINAS with his. § St. Thomas Aquinas, born in Roccasecca, Italy, is the § When illness and flooding befell Thuringia in 1226, patron saint of catholic universities and colleges. He Elizabeth stepped in to tend to the afflicted. She is known as doctor angelicus (being prayerful, allegedly even offered the ill folks the royal's simple, and humble) and doctor universalis (all are belongings and clothes. Elizabeth had a hospital explained and defended); considered by the constructed that treated close to a thousand Catholic Church to be the greatest theologian. underprivileged people every day. o Thomas was placed in the monastery of § Elizabeth became a member of the Third Order of Monte Cassino, where his Sinibald or uncle St. Francis in 1228. After receiving her dowry, was an abbot. Elizabeth built a hospital named for St. Francis, o He went to Paris to the convent of Saint- where she provided direct medical care to the sick. Jacques where he studied under St. Albertus She gave alms and concerned with plight of lepers Magnus (most influential in his scholar life). He and orphans left with Albertus during the summer to go to § Her husband was inclined to religion and increased the faculty at the convent in Cologne that is her esteem to virtue, encouraging her to in her established by Dominicans. exemplary life. She and her husband had 3 children. o He remained there until 1252, when he o After the death of her husband during the returned to Paris and prepared for his crusades, she moved to Marburg and made master’s degree in theology. He composed arrangement for the care of her children more than 60 works. § He received the licentia docendi (license to teach) DATES IN ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY’S LIFE St. Elizabeth of Hungary’s birthdate. She is when he finished his bachelor’s degree, and thus JULY 7 1207 the daughter of Alexander II, King of began teaching theology (1256) in one of the two Hungary. Dominican schools in the University of Paris. He married Ludwig IV and her position at § His greatest work is the SUMMA THEOLOGICA which court lead an austerely simple life where she 1221 practiced penance and devoted herself to seeks to illustrate the relationship between God and works of charity. man and to elaborate how man’s reconciliation St. Elizabeth renounced the world and 1228 with the Divine is made possible through Christ. became a tertiary of St. Francis of Assisi. St. Elizabeth of Hungary passed away at the NOVEMBER 17 1231 age of 24 in Marburg, Hesse. DATES IN ST. THOMAS AQUINAS’ LIFE St. Thomas Aquinas was born in his father’s MAY 25 1235 She was canonized by Pope Gregory IX castle in Rome. His father was Landulf, Count NOVEMBER 17 Feast day of St. Elizabeth of Hungary 1225 of Aquinas, and his mother was Countess Theodora. St. Thomas entered the Dominican order. On - St. Elizabeth of Hungary is the patron saint of bakers, his way to Rome, he was seized by his beggars, brides, charities, death of children, 1243 brother and brought back to his parents. He homeless people, hospitals, Sisters of Mercy, and was held captive for 2 years and his family tried to make him give up his vocation. widows. Page 3 of 4 - She is often depicted alongside a basket of bread B. EXELLENCE – culture of excellence; continuously to describe her devotion for the poor and hungry. commit to achieve higher levels of quality learning. She is painted in honor of the “Miracle of Roses” and “Crucifix in the Bed”. C. LEADERSHIP – guiding and influencing towards - She was praised by Pope Benedict XVI as a model common vision or goal. Art of motivating a group of for those in authority. people to act towards achieveing a common objective. ST. MARTIN DE PORRES o Productive, efficient, and be of service to § St. Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru on others. December 9, 1579. He was placed with a barber or surgeon after two years in primary school, where he D. INNOVATION – introducing new ideas that are learned how to cut hair and the medical arts. creative and original both in thinking. This o He was an illegitimate son of a colored mother encourages creative and critical thinking. who was a slave but became a free woman and a soldier father. E. COMPASSION – feeling of sympathy or pity for o At 15, he became a lay brother at the others, especially one that makes you want to help Dominican friary. He had a love for animals, them. especially vermin, and he built a hospital for o It is finding a way to contribute or help other dogs and cats at his sister’s house. people and being sensitive to their needs. § He desired to go off to some foreign mission and earn the palm of martyrdom. This was not made F. SPIRITUALITY – sense of belief that there is something possible so he made a martyr out of his body and greater than myself, something more to being devoted to ceaseless and severe penance. human than sensory experience, and that the o God endowed him with many graces and gifts greater whole of which we are part is cosmic or such as aerial flights and bilocation. divine in nature. § In 1601, he was received as a lay monastic, or Dominican oblate. In 1610, Martín became a END OF MODULE Dominican lay brother despite it not being common for a “mulatto” to be accepted into a religious order in Peru. § Martín fed and gave charity to Lima's homeless and destitute in addition to his tireless work in the hospital. He raised money for the dowries of destitute girls so they might marry and provided ministry to the waves of recently enslaved Africans being brought to the city. Another lay Dominican, St. Rose of Lima, was a companion of his. DATES IN ST. MARTIN DE PORRES’ LIFE Marin became very ill with chills, fevers, and JANUARY 1639 tremors causing him in agonizing pain. He was 60 years old. He passed away after experiencing almost a NOVEMBER 3 1639 year of full illness. St. Martin de Porres was beatified by Pope OCTOBER 29 1837 Gregory XVI Canonization of St. Martin de Porres by Pope MAY 6 1962 John XXII NOVEMBER 3 Feast day of St. Martin de Porres - He became the patron saint of public health and social justice. THOMASIAN NURSE VALUES A. RESPECT – due regard for feelings and right. This includes treating everyone with the utmost dignity in the light of Catholic faith. Page 4 of 4