Introduction of nursing theory

- Focused more on physical
- Medical treatment is curative
- prior to 1970's

- 1970's-1980's
- Focuses more on lifestyle choices, and identifying risk factors.
- Responsibility on the individual to maintain health.

- Mid 1980's - present
- Health is tied to social structures and environmental conditions.
- Health promotion, and relationships to social context, personal health behavior.

It is "a set of concepts and propositions that sets forth the phenomena with which a discipline is concerned." In simple terms, it is all the features that go into a single framework — or everything that goes into being a nurse.

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Is the act of practicing healthy habits on a daily basis to attain better physical and mental health outcomes, so that instead of just surviving, you're thriving.

is a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental or7 spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired compared with previous experience. It lasts at least 6 months.

Is a lifetime illness lasts 6 months- a lifetime

affects individual nurses in terms of physical and mental health, joy and meaning in their work, professional satisfaction, and engagement with their job.

Poverty/inequality
Hunger
Gender inequality/ Women's Health
Global violence
Climate change
Non-communicable diseases

- Overarching concept is -Heath Promotion
- Achieving health for all (WHO goal in 2000)

Peace, shelter, education, food, income, good ecosystem, resources, social justice and equity
More than just lifestyle and personal health practices
Social, environmental & political contexts
Health has both social and individual dimensions (human right)

It embodies the Four Directions, as well as Father Sky, Mother Earth, and Spirit Tree—all of which symbolize dimensions of health and the cycles of life.

The circle is a sacred symbol of the interdependence of all forms of life; the circle is a key symbol in Native spirituality, family structure, gatherings of people, meetings, songs and dances