1. What is meant by metaparadigm? What are the components of the metaparadigm that are described in every nursing theory?
-Metaparadigm: the collective body of knowledge
- Concepts: person, environment, health care, nursing care
2. How do nurses know their world? What are Carper’s ways of knowing?
-Aesthetics: art of knowing
-Empirics: science of knowing
-Emancipatory: addresses social and political context of nursing
3. What are the two pieces of legislation that affect the nursing profession?
4. What is the role of the CNO? RNAO? CNA? ONA?
CNO- protects the public, makes RN exam
RNAO- the voices of nurses, speak on behalf of nurses
CNA- Canada’s voice. Makes codes of ethics
ONA- union that protects work quality for nurses
5. What are the seven core professional standards of the CNO?
-Accountability
-Continuing Competence
-Ethics
-Knowledge
-Knowledge Application
-Leadership
-Relationships
6. How is health defined? Illness? Wellness?
Health- an objective process characterized by functional stability, balance, and integrity,
Illness- a subjective experience of loss of health
Wellness-absence of diseases also a subjective experience of “good” state of health
7. What are the approaches to health care in Canada?
8. What is meant by the Determinants of Health? What are they and what is considered the determinant that has the most impact on health?
(pg .5 in Potter and Perry)
Health Determinants are:
-Income/Social Status
-Social Support Networks
-Education
-Employment
-Working Conditions
-Physical Environments
-Biology
-Genetic Endowment
-Personal Health Practices
-Coping Skills
-Healthy Child Development
-Health Services
-Gender
-Culture
-Social environments
-#1 determinant of health is income/ social status
9. What are the strategies that influence the health determinants?
10. What is meant by Canada’s ‘Social Safety Net”?
Medicare