Chapter 1

Question 1

Who was the founder of modern day nursing

Answer 1

Florence Nightingale

Question 2

Who founded the American red cross?

Answer 2

Clara Barton

Question 3

Who were the 2 pioneers of nursing
- founded Henry Street settlement in NY to fight spread of disease among poor immigrants

Answer 3

Lillian Wald
Mary Brewster

Question 4

Who was:
- A nurse, feminist, social activist
- compiled the first manual of drugs for nurses in 1890
- helped establish the American society of superintendents of training schools for nurses of the United States ( now called the National league of Nursing)

Answer 4

Lavina Dock

Question 5

Who was:
- the first African American graduate nurse in the USA
- cofounder of the National Association of colored graduates in 1908 ( merged with the American nurses Association)

Answer 5

Mary Mahoney

Question 6

4 steps for safe, effective nursing care

Answer 6

• Establish mutual goals with patients
• show respect for patient’s values, beliefs, needs, and preferences
• implement interventions to promote patent comfort
• provide patent education to foster informed decisions, involvement in care, and to facilitate post-discharge health

Question 7

What are the 3 thinking skills

Answer 7

• Clinical judgement
• critical thinking/reflective thinking
• problem solving

Question 8

consists of:
- observing, comparing, contrasting, & evaluating patients condition
- involves careful consideration of patients health status of what is expected based on patients condition, medications, and treatments

Answer 8

Clinical judgement

Question 9

Consists of:
- involves collecting & analyzing Information & carefully considering options for action
- nurses use this in every aspect of nursing care

Answer 9

Critical thinking ( reflective thinking)

Question 10

Consists of:
- considering an issue and attempting to find a satisfactory solution to achieve the best outcomes
- often used in your professional life

Answer 10

Problem solving

Question 11

RN’S use the _______________ to plan and provide individualized care to healthcare consumers

Answer 11

Nursing process

Question 12

Why define nursing?

Answer 12

Helps students understand what is expected of them

Question 13

Technical and scientific knowledge; be evaluated by a community of peers; have a service orientation and a code of ethics (definition)

Answer 13

Profession

Question 14

One’s regular, principal, or immediate business (definition)

Answer 14

Occupation

Question 15

To be considered a discipline, a profession must have a domain of knowledge that has both theoretical and practical boundaries

Answer 15

Discipline

Question 16

5 phases of nursing (benner)

Answer 16

Stage 1- novice
Stage 2- advanced beginner
Stage 3- competent
Stage 4- proficient
Stage 5- expert

Question 17

Which Benner stage:

Little experience and is at the first stage of acquiring clinical knowledge

Answer 17

Stage 1 - Novice

Question 18

Which Benner stage:

Begins to focus on more aspects of a clinical situation, uses more facts, makes more sophisticated use of the rules and recognizes similarities in situations

Answer 18

Stage 2- advanced beginner

Question 19

Which Benner stage:

2-3 years of nursing practice in the same area
Competent performers have gained additional experiences and wrestle with more complex situations

Answer 19

Stage 3- competent

Question 20

Which Benner stage:
Can quickly take in all aspects of a situation and immediately give meaning to the cluster of assessment data
Resource for less experienced nurses

Answer 20

Stage 4 - proficient

Question 21

Which Benner stage:
Can see what needs to be achieved and now to do it
They trust in and use their intuition; operate with deep understanding of a situation often recognize a problem In the absence of the classic S/S’s

Answer 21

Stage 5- expert

Question 22

-Each state has its own NPA; laws that regulate nursing practice
- the state board of nursing is responsible for regulations
- protects the health, safety, and welfare of the general public

Answer 22

Nurse Practice acts

Question 23

Responsible for:
- approving nursing education programs
- defining the practice of professional nursing
- establishing criteria that allow a person to be licensed as an RN or LPN/LVN
- defining professional practice, which determines nurses scope of practice or those activities that RN’S are expected to perform
- developing rules and regulations for guidance to nurses
- enforcing the rules that govern nursing

Answer 23

State Board of Nursing

Question 24

-Issued by the state
- renews every 2 years
- all states require graduation from approved nursing program and successful completion of the NCLEX

Answer 24

Licensure

Question 25

2 forces that influence nursing practice

Answer 25

• Outside nursing
• inside nursing