Concept Analysis Diagram - Immunity
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Nursing Care
Directed toward what contributes to a normal concept and is thereby related to all factors
involved in or with the concept. Not always needed to have a normal outcome.
Attributes
Defining characteristics of the concept
What must occur for the concept to exist
Antecedents
What precedes the concept for it to exist
Events or incidents that must happen before the concept
Consequences
Untoward events or outcomes that occur due to malfunction within the concept
Positive events or outcomes that occur due to proper functioning within the concept
Interrelated Concept
Concepts which can affect change in the other
Concepts which work together to ensure a normal process
Concepts which if depleted or impaired can cause a negative consequence in the other
Sub- Concept
Critical components of major concept
IMMUNITY
A physiologic process
that provides an
individual with
protection or defense
from disease
Nursing Care
Antecedents
Intact Non-Specific Defenses or
Barriers
Functional Lymphatic System
Optimal Innate Immune Response
Functional Inflammatory
Response
Appropriate Adaptive (Acquired)
Immune Response—Active and
Passive
Attributes
Lab--normal WBC and
Differential Counts
Negative Bacterial and Viral
Cultures
Soft, Non-Tender Lymph Nodes
Recognition of Self
Recognition of Foreign Proteins
Interrelated
Concepts
Nutrition
Comfort
Allergic, Cytotoxic or
Autoimmune Reaction
Tissue
Integrity
Sub -
Concepts
Immune Response
Infectious
Response
Inflammatory
Response
Consequences
(Outcomes)
Cancer
Infection-
Localized or
Systemic
Exaggerated
Immune Response
Positive
Negative
Protects from
Invasion of
Microorganisms
and other Antigens
Recognizes and Removes
Cell Mutations that have
Demonstrated Abnormal
Cell Growth and
Development
Replaces Damaged
Tissue and Cells with
Repaired or Functional
Tissue (i.e., healing)
functional
Cellular
Regulation
Immune Suppression
Chronic
Inflammatory Response
Coping
Mobility
Thermoregulation
Functional
Ability
Immune Deficiency
