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NURSING
PROCESS
DISCIPLINE
DEFINITIONS
Nurse Responsibility
Whatever help the patient may require for his
needs to be met (i.e., for his physical and
mental comfort to be assured as far as possible
while he is undergoing some form of medical
treatment or supervision). It is the nurses
responsibility to see that the patients needs
for help are met, either directly by her own
activity or indirectly by calling in the help of
others.
Need
Situationally defined as a requirements of the
patient which, if supplied, relieves or
diminishes his immediate distressor and
improves his immediate sense of adequacy or
well being.
Improvement
Means to grow better, to turn to profit, to use to
advantage.
Immediate Reaction
Include both the nurse and the patients individual
perception, thoughts, and feelings.
Purpose of Nursing
Supply the help the patient requires in order for his
needs to be met.
Automatic Nursing Action
1.
5. Improvement
Situation becomes clear; It loses it problematic
character and a new equilibrium is established.
The improvement is observable in the verbal and
the non verbal behavior of the patient. This change
allows the nurse to observe whether the patient
sense of helplessness has been relieved, prevented
or diminished.
The nurse then confirms her perception, thought, and feeling with the
patient and determined what help is needed, and to find out if the
person was helped.
Example
1. Patient crying
2. A doctor in operating room
*to be discuss in my reporting
Generality
Orlando discusses and illustrates nurse- patient
contacts in which the patient is conscious, able
to communicate, and in need of help. Although
she did not focus on unconscious patients or
groups is feasible. Non verbal behavior is an
element of her formulations; therefore nurses
would focus on this for determining the
patients need for help and observing for non
verbal behavioral changes after the nursing
action.
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