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CH1: Nursing Today Flashcards

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Nursing is the protection, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations

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Nursing definition according to the American Nursing Association

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How did Florence nightingale see the role of the nurse in the early 1800s?

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-by being in charge of a patient’s health based on the knowledge of how to put the body in such a state as to be free if disease or to recover from disease

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Founder of the Red Cross

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Clara Barton

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Opened the Henry Street Settlement, focusing on the health needs of the poor

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Lillian Waldo and Mary Brewster

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Initially founded the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae, which later became the American Nursing Association

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Isabel Hampton Robb

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First professionally trained African-American nurse

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Mary Mahoney

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What are the external forces that have affected nursing practice in the twenty-first century?

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  • demographic changes
  • human rights movement
  • medically undeserved
  • threat of bioterrorism
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Identify a challenge to our nursing practice today.

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Rising health care costs

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What are the five primary characteristics of a profession?

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  • a profession requires an extended education of its members as well as a basic liberal foundation
  • it has a theoretical body of knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms
  • it provides a specific service
  • it has autonomy in decision making and practice
  • it has a code of ethics for practice
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What are the ANA Standards of Practice?

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  • assessment
  • diagnosis
  • outcome identification
  • planning
  • implementation
  • evaluation
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Identify the ANA Standards of Professional Preference.

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  • ethics. -resource utilization
  • education. -environmentally safe
  • evidence-based practice and research
  • quality of practice
  • communication
  • leadership
  • collaboration
  • professional practice evaluation
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Describe nursing’s code of ethics.

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The nursing code of ethics is the philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principles you will use to provide care to your patients

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A 2-year program focusing on basic sciences and theoretical and clinical courses

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Associate degree

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A 4-year program that includes social sciences, arts, and humanities

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Baccalaureate degree

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Emphasizes research-based clinical practice

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Master’s degree

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Emphasizes basic research and theory

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Doctor of Philosophy

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A practice-focused doctorate

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Doctor of Nursing Practice

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Instruction or training provided by agencies

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In-service education

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Formal, organized educational programs offered by various institutions

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Continuing education

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What is the purpose if Nurse Practice Acts?

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The purpose is to regulate the scope of nursing practice and protect public health, safety, and welfare

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According to Benner, an expert nurse goes through five levels of proficiency. Identify them.

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  • novice
  • advanced beginner
  • competent
  • proficient
  • expert
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Investigates problems to improve nursing care and to expand the scope of nursing practice

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Nurse researcher

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Independent nursing interventions that the nurse initiates without medical orders

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Autonomy

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Is central to the nurse-patient relationship

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Communicator

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Helps the patient maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence

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Caregiver

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Manages patient care and the delivery of specific nursing services within a health care agency

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Nursing administrator

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Has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit

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Manager

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Explains, demonstrates, reinforces, and evaluates the patient’s progress in learning

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Educator

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Works primarily in schools of nursing and staff development

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Nurse educator

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Expert clinician in a specialized area of practice

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Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)

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Involves the independent care for women in normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery and care of newborns

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Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM)

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Detects and manages self-limiting acute and chronic stable medical conditions

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Nurse practitioner

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Provides surgical anesthesia

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Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)

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Four core roles: certified nurse midwife, certified nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, and certified registered nurse anesthetist

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Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)

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Protects patients’ human rights and provides assistance in asserting these rights

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Advocate

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Identify the competencies of the QSEN initiative.

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  • Patient-Centered Care
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Quality improvement
  • Safety
  • informatics
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Define the term genomics

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The study of all the genes in a person, as well as interactions of those genes with each other and with that persons environment

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The factor that best advanced the practice of nursing in the twenty-first century was?

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Better education for nurses

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Graduate nurses must pass a licensure examination administered by the

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State board of nursing

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A group that lobbies at the state and federal levels for advancement of nurses’ role, economic interests, and health care is the

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American nurses Association

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True or False.

The shift to community-based care is related to rising consumerism.

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True

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True or false.

Consumerism is the public’s expectation for a voice in determining the type, quality, and cost of healthcare it receives

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True

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True or False.

Access to healthcare depends on the healthcare workforce available

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False. Varied depending on an individual’s income, race, or location

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