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Concepts Of Nursing Flashcards

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  • an art and science
  • has a specific body of knowledge; however, it is essential that you socialize within the profession and practice to fully understand and apply this knowledge and develop professional expertise.
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Nursing

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  • Patient-centered care
  • Professionalism
  • Health care advocacy groups
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Nursing as a Profession

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  • Administer quality care
  • Be responsible and accountable
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Professionalism

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Health care advocacy groups

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action

Institute of Medicine (IOM) publication on The Future of Nursing

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  • nursing requires
  • Benner’s stages of nursing proficiency:
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Science and Art of Nursing Practice

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Current knowledge and practice standards
Insightful and compassionate approach
Critical thinking

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Nursing requires:

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Benner’s stages of nursing proficiency:

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Novice
Advanced beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert

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  • Nursing definitions by American Nurses Association (ANA) and The International Council of Nurses
  • Nursing:
    о 1960: Documentation began
    ㅇ Standards of Practice
    о Standards of Professional Performance
  • Goal: to improve the health and well-being of all individuals, communities, and populations through the significant and visible contributions of registered nursing using standards-based practice
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Scope and Standards of Practice

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Standards of Practice

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Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes Identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation

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collects client health data

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Assessment

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analyzes assessment data

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Diagnosis

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identifies expected outcomes of client for nursing diagnoses

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Outcomes Identification

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develops plan of care and prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes

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Planning

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implements the interventions (action types) in the plan of care

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Implementation

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evaluates client’s attainment of outcomes

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Evaluation

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the foundation of clinical decision making and includes all significant actions taken by nurses in providing care to patients

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The nursing process

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  • The philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define principles used to provide care.
  • It is important for you to incorporate your own values and ethics into your practice.
  • It will be important to incorporate the ANA code of ethics, as well as your personal values and ethics, into your nursing practice
  • The ANA has a number of publications that address ethics and human rights in nursing.
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Code of Ethics

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  • an essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
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Autonomy

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_______ means that you are responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of nursing care provided.

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Accountability

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  • you help patients maintain and regain health and find their maximum level of independent function through the healing process.
  • A patient’s health care needs include the patient’s emotional, spiritual, and social well-being.
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caregiver

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you protect your patient’s human and legal rights and help patients assert those rights when needed

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patient advocate

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  • your teaching can be formal or informal.
  • Always use teaching methods that match your patient’s capabilities and needs, and incorporate other resources, such as the family, in teaching plans.
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educator

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  • allows you to know your patients, including their strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
  • You will routinely communicate with patients and families, other nurses and health care professionals, resource people, and the community.
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communicator

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you will establish an environment for collaborative patient-centered care to provide safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes.

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manager

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Nursing provides an opportunity for you to commit to lifelong learning and career development.

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Career Development

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An APRN who is an expert clinician in a specialized area of practice, such as a population (e.g.. geriatrics), a setting (e.g., critical care), a disease specialty (e.g., diabetes), a type of care (e.g., rehabilitation), or a type of problem (e.g., pain).

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Clinical Nurse Specialist

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  • An APRN who provides health care to a group of patients, usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based setting. - provide care for patients with complex problems and a more holistic approach than physicians.
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Certified Nurse Practitioner

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  • An APRN who is also educated in midwifery and is certified by the American College of __________.
  • involves providing independent care for women during normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery and care for the newborn
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Certified Nurse Midwife

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  • An APRN with advanced education from a nurse anesthesia-accredited program
  • provide surgical anesthesia under the guidance and supervision of an anesthesiologist who is a physician with advanced knowledge of surgical anesthesia.
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Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

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Works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments

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Nurse educator

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Manages patient care and the delivery of specific nursing services within a health care agency.

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Nurse administrator

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  • Investigates problems to improve nursing care and further define and expand the scope of nursing practice
  • The nurse research often works in an academic setting, hospital, or independent professional or community service agency.
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Nurse researcher

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  • First practicing epidemiologist
  • Organized first school of nursing
  • Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
  • Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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Nurses during the Civil War to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

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Clara Barton
Mother Bickerdyke
Harriet Tubman
Mary Mahoney
Lilian Wald
Mary Brewster

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founder of the American Red Cross, tended soldiers on the battlefields.

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Clara Barton

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organized ambulance services and walked abandoned battlefields at night, looking for wounded soldiers.

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Mother Bickerdyke

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a prominent fernale in the Underground Railroad movement to free slaves

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Harriet Tubman

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  • the first professionally trained African-American nurse
  • She was concerned with the relationship between cultures and races; and as a noted nursing leader she brought forth an awareness of cultural diversitv and respect for the individual, regardless of background, race, color, or religion.
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Mary Mahoney

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opened the Henry Street Settlement, which focused on the health needs of poor people who lived in tenements in New York City.

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Lilian Wald & Mary Brewster

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  • Movement toward scientific, research-based practice and defined body of knowledge
  • Nurses assumed expanded and advanced practice roles
  • 1906: Mary Adelaide Nutting, first nursing professor at Columbia Teachers College
  • Army and Navy Nurse Corps established
  • 1920s: Nursing specialization began
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The Twentieth Century

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  • Changes in curriculum
  • Advances in technology and informatics
  • New programs address current health concerns
  • Leadership role in developing standards and policies
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The 21s Century

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Your practice needs to be based on current evidence, not just according to your education and experiences and the policies and procedures of health care facilities.

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Evidence-Based Practice

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addresses the challenge to prepare nurses with the competencies needed to continuously improve the quality of care in their work environments.

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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)

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  • Many emerging technologies have the potential to rapidly change nursing practice.
  • Some of these help nurses use noninvasive, more accurate assessment tool- implement evidence-based practices
  • collect and trend patient outcome data
  • and use clinical decision support systems.
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Impact of Emerging Technologies

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A newer term that describes the study of all the genes in a person and interactions of these genes with one another and with that person’s environment.

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Genomics

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  • As frontline health care providers, nurses practice in all health care settings and constitute the largest number of healthcare professionals
  • When you care for patients, recognize how your approach to care influences public
    opinion
  • Always act in a competent professional manner.
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Public Perception of Nursing

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Nurses are becoming more politically sophisticated and, as a result, are able to increase the influence nursing has on health care policy and practice.

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Impact of Nursing on Politics & Health Policy

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  • Registered nurse education
  • 2-year associate’s degree
  • 4-year baccalaureate degree
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PROFESSIONAL REGISTERED NURSE EDUCATION

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  • Master’s degree, advanced practice RN
  • Doctoral degrees
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Graduate education

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  • Involves formal, organized educational programs offered by universities, hospitals, state nurses’ associations, professional nursing organizations, and educational and health care institutions.
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Continuing and in-service education

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