Development Of Nursing Practice Flashcards
What is ICN (international council of nurses)
Federation of 130 national nurses’ associations, represents 28 millions of nurses worlwide
What are the nursing practices (ICN)
- Promotion of health
- Prevention of illness
- Care of ill/disabled/dying people
What are other key nursing roles
- Advocacy
- Promotion of safe environment
- Research
- Education
- Participation in health policy shaping/patient/ health system management
What are the fundamental values
- Integrity
- Respect for the client
- Professional autonomy
- Professional competence
- Excellence in care
- Professional collaboration
- Humanity
What is fiq
Fédération interprofessionnelle da la santé du Québec
cna (canadian nurse association)
Work of this association: set scope of practice, protect title of nurse, protect public against unqualified practices
First nursing schools characteristics
In hospital, observe pts, never interfere with or criticize treatment (i see and i am silent)
Who founded first hospital in qc
Jeanne mance
Characteristics of hospitals for indigenous people
Underfunded, overcrowded, understaffed
Separate hc service from nine indigenous
What is CINA (canadian indigenous nurse association)
Primary aim: improve health of indigenous communities, expand participation of indigenous nurses in provision of indigenous health services
Code of ethics of nurses (OIIQ)
- Professional ethics
- Fundamental values
- Principles guiding nurse actions in their practice
Fundamental values goal
- Served as pillars for different divisions of code of ethics
- Help define resulting professional duties and obligations
Nurses emergence
- New france/across canada
- Missionary nurses
- WHO
- Remote canadian regions
Nursing education today
- New and continually developing curricula
- Increased access through online/distance modalities
- Educational standards monitored by provinces and territories and by canadian association for schools of nursing (CASN)
- Ensures greater quality and response to change