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NURS3082 Exam Study Guide Solutions
Space photography - Ans:✔✔-What is used to envision theories that defy classification?
Science of Unitary Human Beings - Ans:✔✔-Necessary to shift perception from client as sum of parts to
client and environment as infinite energy fields with no physical boundaries
Wholeness - Ans:✔✔-A person's being thought of as different from and more than a sum of parts
Openness - Ans:✔✔-The continual interchange of matter and energy between the individual and the
environment
Unidirectionality - Ans:✔✔-Assertion that life process is not reversible
Pattern and organization - Ans:✔✔-Identifies individuals and reflects fluid, ever changing wholeness
Sentience and thought - Ans:✔✔-A human trait - human beings being the only living creatures capable of
imagination, abstraction, language, thought, sensation, and emotion
One energy field - Ans:✔✔-Infinite field of all matter both living and non-living
Universe of open systems - Ans:✔✔-infinite groups of energy fields that interact with one another
continuously
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Patterns - Ans:✔✔-Unique energy fields that change continuously, giving identity to human and
environmental energy fields
Pandimension - Ans:✔✔-An infinite domain containing all energy fields
Roger's definition of person - Ans:✔✔-More than a sum of parts; impossible to divide into parts and
understand the whole person
Roger's definition of environment - Ans:✔✔-Wave pattern which changes continuously. Each human field
pattern is unique and intertwined with its distinctive environmental field pattern
Roger's definition of nursing - Ans:✔✔-Organized body of abstract knowledge, used for the purpose of
assisting human beings to move in the direction of maximum well-being
Roger's function of nursing - Ans:✔✔-Recognizing patterns of energy in the client and self, then mutually
acting to guide and redirect those patterns to support optimum functioning
Pattern of consciousness - Ans:✔✔-First that of the person, surrounded by family, then community,
world, and endless others
Newman's definition of health - Ans:✔✔-A process of expanding consciousness. Humans are capable of
gaining insight in their patterns of life and health.
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