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1
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Who cleaned up the wards with a group of 38 nurses and lowered the death rate from 60% to 1%

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Florence Nightingale

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2
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The union government appointed someone to organize woman volunteers to provide nursing care for soldiers who was is it?

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Dorothea Dix

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3
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Who took volunteers into the field hospitals to care for soldiers from bot army’s ?

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Clara Barton

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4
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What did Clara Barton create

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The American Red Cross

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5
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This nurse took nursing out into the community. And in 1893 along with Mary Brewster they created the Henry Street Settlement Service that focused on the health needs of poor people

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Lillian Wald

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Actions taken to improve maintain or restore health or prevent illness

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Interventions

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An intervention aimed at restoring and maintaining a persons health

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Caregiving skills

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Nursing care that uses the best research evidence coupled with the clinical expertise of the clinician considering the values of the patient

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Evidence-based nursing

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9
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What is designed to protect the public and defines the legal scope of practice

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Practice acts

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10
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Practical nurses provide direct patient care under the supervision of who

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A registered nurse, advanced practice nurse, physician assistant, physician, dentist, or podiatrist

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What was created by Medicare in 1983 as an attempt to contain rising healthcare costs

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DRGs

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12
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Insurance companies use this to keep their premium rates lower and intern makes insurance coverage of employees less expensive for employers

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Using PPOs

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13
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The world health organization has a fine health as

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A state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

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14
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What is a chronic illness

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And illness that last for a long time

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15
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And illness that develop suddenly and resolves in a short time

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Acute illness

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And illness that develops slowly can be controlled but not cured and is long-lasting

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Chronic illness

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17
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And illness with no cure

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Terminal illness

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18
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An illness that develops without being caused by any other health problem

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Primary illness

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An illness that results from or is caused by a primary illness

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Secondary illness

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20
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What is an idiopathic illness

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A disease that has no known cause

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21
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Means without symptoms

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Asymptomatic

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22
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And approach that considers the person’s biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects in means

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A holistic approach

23
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What disturbs the organisms homeostasis and causes the body to attempt to adapt

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Stress

24
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What physician publish his research series on stress

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Hans Selye

25
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What are the general stages of general adaptations in your room by Selye

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Alarm stage stage of resistance and stage of exhaustion

26
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A stressor can be helpful or

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Harmful depending on the person

27
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Strategies that protect us from increasing anxiety they reduce both anxiety and the secretion of stress hormones

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Defense mechanisms

28
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Escaping unpleasant anxiety can’t think though it’s by refusing to acknowledge their existence. There is a persistent refusal to be swayed by evidence

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Denial

29
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Discharging intense feelings for one person on to another object or person who is less threatening, there by satisfying and impulse with a substitute object

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Displacement

30
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Of weather delays occurrence of a specific disease or disorder

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Primary prevention

31
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Consist of following guidelines for screening for diseases that are easily treated if found early for the detecting return of a disease

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secondary prevention

32
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Consist of rehabilitation measures after the disease or disorder has stabilize

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Tertiary prevention

33
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Who is held to the same standards as a licensed nurse

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Student nurse

34
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What do student nurses need to learn, it must include its definition of nursing in that state where they are practicing and they must not exceed the scope of practice

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Nurse practice act

35
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The assignment of duties to another person

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Delegation

36
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What are the most common charges brought against nurses

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Substance abuse, incompetent, and negligence

37
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If you do not report another professional misconduct you can be charged with

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Negligence

38
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And unexpected patient care event that results in death or serious injury to the patient

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Sentinel event

39
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The S4 a method of communication is a strategy that reduces the likelihood of

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Critical patient details being lost

40
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This is the property of the hospital agency our primary care provider not the patient

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Medical record

41
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Required the creation of regulations regarding patient privacy and electronic medical record

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Hippa

42
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When a person is older than 18 years and is competent what must they sign

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Consent for treatment

43
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When is a person considered in compensate

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Unconscious, under the influence of mind altering drugs, or declared legally incompetent

44
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Someone who has established independence by moving away from parents or through service in that warm forces, married, or pregnancy

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An emancipated minor

45
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Sometimes called a living will and is a consent that has been constructed before the need for it arises

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Advance directive

46
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A document that gives legal power to a healthcare agent who is a person chosen by the patient to follow the patient advance directives and make medical decisions on his behalf

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A durable power of attorney

47
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Negligence by a professional person, the person does not act according to professional standards of care as a reasonable and prudent professional would

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Malpractice

48
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To prove malpractice, four elements must be present what are they

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Duty, a breach of duty, causation, and injury

49
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The threat to Horm another or even to threaten to take another without that person’s permission

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Assault

50
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The actual physical contact that has been refused or that is carried out against the persons will

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Battery

51
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This occurs when there has been a violation of the confidential and privileged nature of a professional relationship

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Invasion of privacy

52
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Preventing a person from leaving or restricting his movements in the facility is considered

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False imprisonment

53
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When a person wants to leave the hospital against the advice of the primary care provider they must sign

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An AMA

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