2 Foundational Nursing Concepts Free Online FlashCards

What are nursing’s core purposes?

Nursing supports health and healing, prevents illness and injury, and helps people manage health needs across the lifespan.

In the nursing metaparadigm, what does “person” mean?

The person is the individual, family, group, or community receiving care, understood within their values, relationships, and circumstances.

What is the central idea of person-centered care?

Person-centered care treats the person as an active partner: nurses ask what matters to them, respect their choices, and adapt care to their needs and circumstances.

What does holistic care consider?

Holistic care considers physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions together, rather than focusing only on a diagnosis.

What is the purpose of care coordination?

Interprofessional teamwork and care coordination organize information and activities among patients, families, nurses, and other professionals to support continuity, especially across care settings.

What is health promotion?

Health promotion enables people to increase control over and improve their health by supporting skills and choices, addressing barriers, and improving conditions that affect well-being.

What five kinds of action does the Ottawa Charter highlight?

The Ottawa Charter highlights building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services toward health promotion.

What is primary prevention?

Primary prevention aims to prevent a condition before it starts, such as through immunization or support for smoking cessation.

What are the six steps of the nursing process?

The six interrelated steps are assessment, diagnosis or problem identification, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Nurses may revisit earlier steps as needs or responses change.

How does the nursing metaparadigm define health?

Health is a changing state of well-being and illness, not simply the presence or absence of disease.

What does “environment” include in the nursing metaparadigm?

Environment includes the physical, social, cultural, economic, and organizational conditions that affect health.

What does “nursing” mean in the nursing metaparadigm?

Nursing is the knowledge, judgment, and actions nurses use to support health and respond to people’s needs.