Chapter 1 Flashcards
An RN who has a graduate degree and advanced knowledge. There are four categories of APRNs: certified nurse-midwife (CNM), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), certified nurse practitioner (CNP), or certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). These nurses can diagnose illnesses and prescribe treatments and medications.
Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN)
Authoritative statements of the duties that all registered nurses, regardless of role, population, or specialty, are expected to perform competently. The Standards of Professional Nursing Practice describe a competent level of nursing practice as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known as the nursing process. The nursing process includes the components of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation
ANA Standards of Professional Nursing Practice
Standards that describe a competent level of behavior in the professional role of the nurse, including activities related to ethics, advocacy, respectful and equitable practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, scholarly inquiry, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource stewardship, and environmental health.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance
Care that can be performed following a defined nursing procedure with minimal modification in which the responses of the patient to the nursing care are predictable
Basic nursing care
The state-specific licensing and regulatory body that sets the standards for safe nursing care, decides the scope of practice for nurses within its jurisdiction, and issues licenses to qualified candidates.
Board of Nursing
A hierarchy of reporting relationships in an agency that establishes accountability and lays out lines of authority and decision-making power.
Chain of command
A code that applies normative, moral guidance for nurses in terms of what they ought to do, be, and seek. A code of ethics makes the primary obligations, values, and ideals of a profession explicit.
Code of ethics
Impaired swallowing.
Dysphagia
An ethical principle is a general guide, basic truth, or assumption that can be used with clinical judgment to determine a course of action. Four common ethical principles are beneficence (do good), nonmaleficence (do no harm), autonomy (control by the individual), and justice (fairness).
Ethical principle
A lifelong problem-solving approach that integrates the best evidence from well-designed research studies and evidence-based theories; clinical expertise and evidence from assessment of the health consumer’s history and condition, as well as health care resources; and patient, family, group, community, and population preferences and values
Evidence-based practice
The impaired ability to form words and speak.
Expressive aphasia
An individual who has completed a state-approved practical or vocational nursing program, passed the NCLEX-PN examination, and is licensed by their state Board of Nursing to provide patient care
Licensed Practical Nurse/Vocational Nurse (LPN/LVN)
A specific term that looks at a standard of care, as well as the professional status of the caregiver
Malpractice
Personal values, character, or conduct of individuals within communities and societies
Morality
A “general term that denotes conduct lacking in due care, carelessness, and a deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would use in a particular set of circumstances.”
Negligence
Allows a nurse to have one multistate license with the ability to practice in the home state and other compact states.
Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
Integrates the art and science of caring and focused on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence. Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations in recognition of the connection of all humanity
Nursing
Legislation enacted by each state that establishes regulations for nursing practice within that state by defining the requirements for licensure, as well as the scope of nursing practice.
Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
Keeping your patient’s Protected Health Information (PHI) protected and known only by those health care team members directly providing care for the patient.
Patient confidentiality
Care that is provided to patients to promote wellness and prevent disease from occurring. This includes health promotion, education, protection (such as immunizations), early disease screening, and environmental considerations.
Primary care
A precise and detailed written plan for a regimen of therapy
Protocol
A physician, podiatrist, dentist, optometrist, or advanced practice nurse provider
Provider
The degree to which nursing services for health care consumers, families, groups, communities, and populations increase the likelihood of desirable outcomes and are consistent with evolving nursing knowledge.
Quality
An individual who has graduated from a state-approved school of nursing, passed the NCLEX-RN examination, and is licensed by a state board of nursing to provide patient care
Registered Nurse (RN)
A culture established within health care agencies that empowers nurses, nursing students, and other staff members to speak up about risks to patients and to report errors and near misses, all of which drive improvement in patient care and reduce the incident of patient harm.
Safety culture
Services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform and permitted to undertake – in keeping with the terms of their professional license.
Scope of practice
Care that occurs when a person has contracted an illness or injury and is in need of medical care.
Secondary care
A type of care that deals with the long-term effects from chronic illness or condition, with the purpose to restore physical and mental function that may have been lost. The goal is to achieve the highest level of functioning possible with this chronic illness.
Tertiary care
Any unlicensed person, regardless of title, who performs tasks delegated by a nurse. This includes certified nursing aides/assistants (CNAs), patient care assistants (PCAs), patient care technicians (PCTs), state tested nursing assistants (STNAs), nursing assistants-registered (NA/Rs) or certified medication aides/assistants (MA-Cs). Certification of UAPs varies between jurisdictions.
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
