CH1: Nursing Today

Question 0

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

Question 1

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

Question 2

Founder of the Red Cross

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Clara Barton

Question 3

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

Identify a challenge to our nursing practice today.

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Rising health care costs

Question 8

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

Question 9

What are the ANA Standards of Practice?

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• assessment
• diagnosis
• outcome identification
• planning
• implementation
• evaluation

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 17

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

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• novice
• advanced beginner
• competent
• proficient
• expert

Question 21

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

Question 32

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

Question 35

Identify the competencies of the QSEN initiative.

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- Patient-Centered Care - Teamwork and Collaboration - Evidence-based practice - Quality improvement - Safety - informatics

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

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Better education for nurses

Question 38

Graduate nurses must pass a licensure examination administered by the

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State board of nursing

Question 39

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

Question 40

True or False. | The shift to community-based care is related to rising consumerism.

Answer 40

True

Question 41

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

Question 42

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