Exam 1 Flashcards
Study Guides 1-4
Who was the 1st Public Health Nurse. She developed Public Health Nursing.
Lillian Wald
Who founded the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
Isabel Hampton Robb
Who was appointed superintendent of the female nurses of the Army by the secretary of war in 1861.
Her tireless efforts led to the recruitment of more than 2,000 women to serve in the army during the Civil War.
She had the authority to organize hospitals, to appoint nurses, and to manage supplies for the wounded.
Dorothea Dix
Who convinced congress to ratify the Treaty of Geneva?
The International Red Cross was the brainchild of a Swiss banker, who proposed the formation of a neutral international relief society. She was convinced that the United States desperately needed this through her work in the Civil War. I.e. she founded American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Who founded the Frontier Nursing Service and advanced midwifery in the US?
Mary Breckenridge
Deaconesses were female servants who performed nursing tasks during the middle ages. How were nursing roles primarily carried out by?
Nursing was influenced by Christianity.
Deaconesses cared for women
Deacons cared for men.
Nursing roles primarily carried out by religious orders.
What terms describe personal characteristics (“good nurse”) of the female nurses who were recruited to enter the U.S. nurse training programs in 1873? (select all that apply)?
Based on the Victorian belief in the natural abilities of women to be sensitive, possess high morals, and be caregivers, early nursing training required that applicants be:
- female
- sensitivity
- high moral character
- purity of character
- subservience
**AND “ladylike” behavior became the associated traits of a “good nurse,” thus setting the “feminization of nursing” as the ideal standards for a good nurse.
The student nurses served as the primary nursing staff for these early hospitals.
After the Civil War (1870’s), hospitals in the United States were staffed by these individuals?
Nursing Students. **These were the Victorian, “lady-like” nurses.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report called, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) specifically recommended which of the following changes?
Calls for interdisciplinary education
Decreased barriers to nurses scope of practice
Increase educational levels of nurses
Which of the following defined safety to create a system where patients are assured safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care?
(ANA) American Nursing Association
The central concepts of nursing include which of the following?
“Please Enjoy Happy Nurses”
- Person: receiving the nursing
- Environment: within which the person exits
- Health:-illness continuum within which the person falls at the time of the interaction with the nurse
- Nursing: actions
Question will be “Which of the following statements represents the philosophy of Realism?”
Likewise, define realism.
Realism:
The world is static
Seeing is believing
Reality is physical
Logical thinking superior
The central concept in the Nevada State College School of Nursing Conceptual Framework is:
The statement, “Because Larry smoked, he did not deserve a lung transplant” is an example of this type of category of beliefs?
Evaluative beliefs: judgments– social drinking is immoral
Who created the Environmental Theory (13 Canons) of nursing?
Florence Nightingale
Who created the Systems Model is a nursing theory based on the individual’s relationship to stress, the reaction to it, and reconstitution factors that are dynamic in nature?
Betty Neuman
Who created Science of Unitary Human Beings nursing theory?
Has to do with Homeodynamics: helicy, resonancy, and integrality.
Martha Rogers
Who created The Self-Care Nursing Theory?
Has to do with: The wholly compensatory system, partially compensatory system, supportive-education system
&
Self-Care Deficits
Dorothea Orem
Who created the Adaptive Model: Integrated, compensatory, compromised theory of nursing.
Has to do with: regulator, cognator, cognator-regulator and stabilizer-innovator; very sciencey
Callista Roy
Who created the nursing theory about the philosophy and science of caring?
Has to do with: caritas
Jean Watson
Who created the nursing theory about cultural diversity and universality?
Has to do with: cultrual care
Madeleine Leininger
What are methods nurses will use for improving critical thinking skills? (Select all that apply)
a. Discussion with colleagues
b. Audible verbalization of thoughts
c. Literature review
d. Intentional application of knowledge
e. Concept maps
f. Simulation
g. Role playing
h. Written work
Match the three parts of Orem’s General Theory of Nursing with the appropriate definition provided in the model:
The wholly compensatory system:
Partially compensatory system:
Supportive-educative system:
The wholly compensatory system: the patient is unable to perform any self-care activities and relies on the nurse to perform care
Partially compensatory system: both the patient and the nurse participate in the patient’s self-care activities, with the responsibility for care shifting from the nurse to the patient as the self-care demand changes
Supportive-educative system: The patient has the ability to self-care but requires assistance from the nurse in decision making, knowledge, or skill acquisition. The nurse’s role is to promote the patient as a self-care agent.
What topics did the Joint Commission establish for the first set of National Patient Safety Goals? (Select all that apply)
a. Identify patients correctly
b. use medications safely
c. improve staff communication
d. use alarms safely
e. prevent infection
f. identify patient safety risks
g. prevent mistakes in surgery
Which of the following events in healthcare would be considered a “sentinel event?”
Sentinel event (“Never” events): An unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury or the risk thereof
Examples: An unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury or the risk thereof
- Unintended retention of a foreign object events
- Fall-related events
- Suicide events
- Wrong patient, wrong site, wrong procedure events
- Delay in treatment events
- Criminal events (assault, rape, homicide)
- Operation/post-operation complication events
- Perinatal events (occurring during labour or shortly after birth where the midwife perceived the mother or her infant to be at risk, and they (the midwife) had experienced fear, helplessness or horror in response.)
- Medication error events
- Fire-related events
