ELECTIVE DOS

For enumeration portion

ROLES OF NURSE AS AUTONOMOUS PARTNER

 Impact of technological expansion

 Increase acuity level of clients
 Consumer demand for accountability and responsibility

BEHAVIORAL AND EMOTIONAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH SHORT-TERM ILLNESS

ARE GENERALLY:

 Mild and short lived

 Makes one irritable
 Lack of energy or desire to interact

MORE ACUTE RESPONSES ARE LIKELY WITH SEVERE, LIFE-THREATENING, CHRONIC OR

DISABLING ILLNESS:

 Anxiety
 Fear
 Anger
 Withdrawal

OTHER CHANGES:

 Body image or physical appearance

 Low self-esteem and disturbance in self-concept
 Loss of body parts or function
 Pain
 Disfigurement
 Dependent to others
 Unemployment, financial problems
  Inability to participate in social functions
 Spiritual distress

IMPACT ON FAMILY

 Role changes
 Task rearrangement and increase demand in time
 Increase stress d/t anxiety r/t illness and responsibilities

PSYCHOLOGICAL CARE

1. Provide explanations about necessary adjustment

2. Make arrangements wherever possible to accommodate client’s lifestyle
3. Collaborative support of client’s lifestyle practices on healthy aspect
4. Reinforcing desirable changes in practices

STAGES OF CHANGE THEORY: 6. Termination – habit

1. Pre-contemplation – thinking of QUESTIONS INVOLVED:

change
 Why?
2. Contemplation – weighing
 Who?
3. Preparation - deciding
 What if?
4. Action – start of change
 When?
5. Maintenance - keep
 Where?

CHARACTERISTICS OF A CRITICAL THINKER

1. Independent thinker
2. Question conventions, habits, and basing decision on sound reasoning
3. Recognize biases, assumptions, and possessing an open mind
4. Observant and able to organize and prioritize data
5. Uses good judgment, intuition, and past experiences to develop solutions and
analyze actions.
CRITICAL THINKING IN SHORT:

 Self-directed
 Self-disciplined
 Self-monitored
 Self-corrective thinking

INTELLECTUAL STANDARDS ARE ESSENTIAL TO:

 Increase the QUALITY OF THINKING

 Increase SKILL in the APPLICATION of STANDARDS thus improves REASONING
 Lead to CLEARER, MORE PRECISE THINKING of less personal bias

INTELLECTUAL STANDARDS OF THINKING

1. Clarity – clearly
2. Accuracy - reliable
3. Precision
4. Relevance
5. Depth
6. Breadth
7. Logic
8. Significance
9. Fairness

PROCESS OF CRITICAL THINKING