It presents the nursing theory that focuses on the manipulation of the environment for the benefits of the patient

Nursing is the preventing , supressing or contributing to disease, accidents or deaths

The Dreyfus Model is situational that describes the five levels of skill acquisition and development:

characterized by a person who lacks background experience of the situation he or she is involved in

feels highly responsible for managing patient care but will still need the help of other nurses who are more

experienced than her

can see changing relevance in a given situation including recognition and implementation of skilled responses to

the situation as it evolves

does not rely anymore on the analytical principles of rules, guidelines, and maxims to connect her understanding

of the situation to an appropriate action

This is defined as what can be assessed. Well-being is the human experience of health or wholeness.

Wellbeing and being ill are understood as distinct ways of being in the world. Health is not merely the

absence of disease or illness. A person may also have a disease but not an illness.

Nightingale outlined a procedure for measuring the body’s temperature through palpation of, or feeling for

the extremities in order to assess for heat loss. One of the nurse’s role is to manipulate the environment. Positioning

the patient, opening the windows, and regulating the room temperature are ways of maintaining this balance.

originates from the Greek vocabulary, meaning to cherish and to give special loving attention

Practice of loving kindness and equanimity (self-control/composure) within context of

caring consciousness.

Being authentically present, and enabling and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective life world of self and the one-being-cared-for.

is the moment (focal point in space and time) when the nurse and another person come together in

such a way that an occasion for human caring is created.

everything is a whole in one context and a part in another, with each part being in the whole and the

whole being in the part

involves creativity and choice and is revealed in attachment, love, and community

a complex transcultural, relational process grounded in an ethical, spiritual context (charity and right

action, love as compassion in response to suffering and need and justice or fairness of what to be done)

a complex spiritual, ethical, ecological, and cultural phenomenon. It embodies knowledge and

conscience about the beauty of life forms and symbolic systems or patterns of meaning. These patterns

are transmitted historically and are preserved or changed through caring values, attitudes, and

communication.

a spiritual and cultural being. are created by God, the Mystery of Being and engage co-creatively to find meaning and value.

major structures are defined clearly, consistent with definitions commonly used by practicing nurses