Theoretical Foundations & the Nursing Process

What it covers

• What nursing is, and the four metaparadigm concepts every theory has to answer
• Twenty nursing theorists in four schools of thought — Nightingale, Henderson, Orem, Peplau, Orlando, King, Roy, Neuman, Watson, Leininger, Benner and the rest
• The Filipino theorists and the leaders of Philippine nursing
• The non-nursing theories the exam borrows
• Health, illness, wellness and the five levels of prevention
• The nursing process step by step, and the four ways a diagnosis is written wrong
• Prioritization, the five rights of delegation, and clinical judgment
• Teaching, documentation, quality and safety
• Republic Act 9173, the Code of Ethics, and the Philippine professional frame