CH1: Nursing Today Flashcards
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
Nursing definition according to the American Nursing Association
How did Florence nightingale see the role of the nurse in the early 1800s?
-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
Founder of the Red Cross
Clara Barton
Opened the Henry Street Settlement, focusing on the health needs of the poor
Lillian Waldo and Mary Brewster
Initially founded the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae, which later became the American Nursing Association
Isabel Hampton Robb
First professionally trained African-American nurse
Mary Mahoney
What are the external forces that have affected nursing practice in the twenty-first century?
- demographic changes
- human rights movement
- medically undeserved
- threat of bioterrorism
Identify a challenge to our nursing practice today.
Rising health care costs
What are the five primary characteristics of a profession?
- 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
What are the ANA Standards of Practice?
- assessment
- diagnosis
- outcome identification
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation
Identify the ANA Standards of Professional Preference.
- ethics. -resource utilization
- education. -environmentally safe
- evidence-based practice and research
- quality of practice
- communication
- leadership
- collaboration
- professional practice evaluation
Describe nursing’s code of ethics.
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
A 2-year program focusing on basic sciences and theoretical and clinical courses
Associate degree
A 4-year program that includes social sciences, arts, and humanities
Baccalaureate degree
Emphasizes research-based clinical practice
Master’s degree
Emphasizes basic research and theory
Doctor of Philosophy
A practice-focused doctorate
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Instruction or training provided by agencies
In-service education
Formal, organized educational programs offered by various institutions
Continuing education
What is the purpose if Nurse Practice Acts?
The purpose is to regulate the scope of nursing practice and protect public health, safety, and welfare
According to Benner, an expert nurse goes through five levels of proficiency. Identify them.
- novice
- advanced beginner
- competent
- proficient
- expert
Investigates problems to improve nursing care and to expand the scope of nursing practice
Nurse researcher
Independent nursing interventions that the nurse initiates without medical orders
Autonomy
Is central to the nurse-patient relationship
Communicator
Helps the patient maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence
Caregiver
Manages patient care and the delivery of specific nursing services within a health care agency
Nursing administrator
Has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit
Manager
Explains, demonstrates, reinforces, and evaluates the patient’s progress in learning
Educator
Works primarily in schools of nursing and staff development
Nurse educator
Expert clinician in a specialized area of practice
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
Involves the independent care for women in normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery and care of newborns
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM)
Detects and manages self-limiting acute and chronic stable medical conditions
Nurse practitioner
Provides surgical anesthesia
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
Four core roles: certified nurse midwife, certified nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, and certified registered nurse anesthetist
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)
Protects patients’ human rights and provides assistance in asserting these rights
Advocate
Identify the competencies of the QSEN initiative.
- Patient-Centered Care
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Evidence-based practice
- Quality improvement
- Safety
- informatics
Define the term genomics
The study of all the genes in a person, as well as interactions of those genes with each other and with that persons environment
The factor that best advanced the practice of nursing in the twenty-first century was?
Better education for nurses
Graduate nurses must pass a licensure examination administered by the
State board of nursing
A group that lobbies at the state and federal levels for advancement of nurses’ role, economic interests, and health care is the
American nurses Association
True or False.
The shift to community-based care is related to rising consumerism.
True
True or false.
Consumerism is the public’s expectation for a voice in determining the type, quality, and cost of healthcare it receives
True
True or False.
Access to healthcare depends on the healthcare workforce available
False. Varied depending on an individual’s income, race, or location
