Nursing 2230A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Food Security, Social Exclusion, Social Safety Net
10 Jan 2017
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Nurses view the world through the prism of human vulnerability, and capture the dangers of the ordinary. Nurses combine an educated glance with the ability to protect patients from danger without making them feel endangered. Many nurses nowadays are employed by institutions that value profit and cost-cutting more so than patient safety. Advocacy is also context dependent advocacy: many nurses lack the on-the-job time that is required for patient, nurses are so over-worked, they simply don"t have the energy to fight any longer. Importance of health to nursing is reflected in models and frameworks (metapardigm) Disease: objective state of ill health; pathological process that can be identified by medical science. Illness: subjective experience with a loss of health. Health: objective process characterized by functional stability, balance, integrity. Classification of health conceptualizations: health as stability. Maintenance, adaptation, homeostasis: health as actualization. Actualization of human potential: health as actualization and stability. 3 major approaches to health: medical, behavioural, socioenvironmental.
