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1
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What does Moodle stand for?

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Modular Object-oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

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What is the lowest C you can have in nursing?

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77.00

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If a student is going to be absent for an exam date what should he or she do?

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Contact the classroom instructor BEFORE class time

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How much is participation your grade in Nursing?

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3% of course grade

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What is the nursing mission?

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Faculty in the department of nursing seek to promote, expand, and validate scientific knowledge and evidence-based practice to advance health. The department provides an atmosphere of scholarly inquiry, an appreciation of professional values, inter-professional collaboration and active community service

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What makes a great nurse? KSA

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Knowledge
Skills
Attitudes

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Interim Dean

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Dr. Lisa Broussard

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Interim Associate Dean

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Dr. Jennifer Lemoine

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BSN Director of School

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Dr. Deedra Harrington

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BSN Coordinator

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Dr. Tricia Templet

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What is the Appeal of Requirements for admission and progression?

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If a student cannot maintain the requirements for progression into nursing because of a extenuating circumstance, they can submit an appeal and request a waiver

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What is the Appeals Chain

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Instructor
Course Coordinator
BSN coordinator
Director of School
Associate Dean
Dean
University Ombudsman

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She is best known for her contributions to the reforms in the British Army Medical Corps, improved sanitation in India, Improved public health in Great Britain, used statistics to document health outcomes, and developed the organized training of nurses. She also documented a decrease in soldier death.

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Florence Nightingale

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What is a Professional Nurse?

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Addresses the humanistic and holistic needs of patients, families, and environments. Provides help to patients, families, and communities for actual or potential health problems. Has many diverse roles.

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What happened with Nursing in the prehistoric period?

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Health practices were strongly guided by magic, religion, and superstition

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What was nursing like in Egypt?

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First to use sutures
and had a pharmacist with more than 700 drugs
Nurses would be used by Kings

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17
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How was nursing during the Palestine period?

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Moses developed Mosaic Code (how to stay clean and not sick)

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How was Greece doing in Nursing?

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Believed the gods and goddesses controlled health and illness.
Aesculepius was the model for medical caduceus
Hippocrates was the first to attribute disease to natural causes. (father of modern medicine)

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What did India bring to Nursing?

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The Vedas (written rules to help with sanitation)
Surgery
Prenatal Care
Male nurses

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What did China bring to Nursing?

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There belief in health had to do with the Yin and Yang sign
Acupuncture

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What did Rome bring to nursing?

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1st Military Hospital

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In the middle ages, Women used purging, leeching, and mercury as new methods of healing.
True or False

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False, Men used these, Women used herbs and new methods of healing

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What was the central figure of organization and management of health care in the MIDDLE AGES?

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Roman Catholic Church

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In the Middle Ages, What women become nurses mostly?

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Wives of emperors and other noble women

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In the Middle Ages, During the crusades what nursing orders came out and who would be the nurses on the battlefield?

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The Templars and Hospitalers came out and Monks and Christen Knights would provide care and defend the hospitals during battle.

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What major advancements to medicine happened in the renaissance and reformation period?

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Pharmacology, chemistry, and medical knowledge(anatomy, physiology, and surgery)
The nursing education was nonexistent still

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Explain the “Dark ages” of nursing

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Since there was a problem going on with the RC Church and protestant sects, religious facilities for healthcare started to close. Prostitutes, prisoners, and drunks were forced to work in healthcare. Famine, filth, and plague ran throughout Europe in this time.

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28
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The first hospital in North America was built in the Colonial American Period in Mexico City and is called the Hospital of the Immaculate Conception. True or False

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True

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29
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In the Colonial American Period, Where were infectious people put to be isolated?

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Pesthouses

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30
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Thomas Jefferson advocated for hospitals and care of the sick. True or False

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False. Benjamin Franklin

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Who established the first nursing school in England and what year?

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Florence Nightingale in 1860

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32
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What did Mary Seacole do for the Crimean War?

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She packed her own supplies and traveled there (over 3000 miles) and she opened a lodging house to nurse sick soldiers.

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Dorothea Dix

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She became a superintendent of Female Nurses and organized military hospitals and provided medical supplies.

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Clara Barton

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Served on the front line of the Civil war and operated a war relief program to provide supplies to battlefields and hospitals. (She is also is credited with founding red cross)

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1900s to WW1, Nurses had to become registered before they could start practice because of the State Legislation. True or False

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True

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Who was Lillian Wald?

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She is most known for establishing the first viable practice for public health nurses.

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What was health care like during WW1 and the 1920’s?

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Insulin and Penicillin were discovered and used a lot. Nurse Anesthetists we’re becoming popular because of the hard war times. Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service which was in Kentucky in the rural parts.

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During the Great Depression, What was the Social Security Act of 1935? And who enabled it?

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The main points of the Act were to
1. a national old age insurance system
2. Federal Grants to states for maternal and child welfare services
3. Vocational rehabilitation service for the Handicapped
4. Medical Care for crippled children and blind people
5. A plan to strengthen public health services
6. a federal state unemployment system

Franklin D Roosevelt Passed this Act

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Nursing during WW1 had become recognized as more needed so the nurses attained ranks like officers in the navy and army including Colonel Julie O. Flikke. True or False

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False, it was during WW11

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What was the Nurse Training Act of 1943?

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The first instance of federal funding being used to support nurse training

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Hill Burton Act

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Marked largest commitment of federal dollars to health care in the country’s history. It’s purpose was to build hospitals and facilities

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State Board test pool

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National Standards for nursing education were established

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43
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Medicare is for federal insurance for families in poverty. True or False

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False, Medicaid is used for this.
Medicare is for those over 65, disabled, or have renal failure.

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In the 1960s, What was the Community Mental Health Centers Act?

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Provided funds for the construction of community outpatient mental health centers

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45
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Which one of the following DID NOT happen to nursing in the 1970’s?
1. Male nurses were at an all time high
2. Health Care got super expensive
3. The AIDS pandemic started to grow
4. Nurse Practitioners now needed masters preparations
5. ANA first black president elected

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3.

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46
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In the 1980s, there was a serious national shortage of nurses. True or False

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True

47
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What are some things that happened in the 1980’s in healthcare?

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An increase in homelessness, the aids pandemic, outpatient surgery services grew, National Center for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health

48
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(1980’s) What are Runaway health care costs and how did they fix this?

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Since Medicare was reimbursing for any and all hospital services, medicare was not getting any money so they put in the Diagnosis-related Group System to start charging a specific amount for a diagnosis

49
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In the 1990s, What did nurses do to help with balancing family life and work life?

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They became creative with there schedules and started working more 12hr/3 day work weeks

50
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What we’re growing concerns in the 1990s?

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Healthy people 2000 Initiative (magazine)
The AIDs pandemic was still in process
Bc of this Universal Precautions were made
Focus on prevention and primary care

51
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In the 1990s, Patients were mostly treated in the hospital setting. True or False

A

False. there was an emphasis on outpatient, ambulatory, and home services
This downsized the nursing staff in hospitals and increased the use of non licensed personnel

52
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Now is the 21st Century, are nurses still suffering?

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Some yes, with healthcare access and cost, the aging population of nurses and practices in generational workforce, SERIOUS nursing shortage, high acuity and short staffing

53
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What are the nurses areas of concern?

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Insufficient staffing
inadequate salaries
effects of stress and overwork
lack of participation in decision making, not satisfied with quality of their own nursing care

54
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What are some core competencies required for a nurse?

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Critical thinking, communication, inter professional collaboration, assessment, leadership, and technical skills

55
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What does the NCLEX stand for?

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National Council Licensure Examination

56
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What does BSN stand for?

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Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education

57
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What was the first nursing school at a collegiate level?

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University of Minnesota (1909) as a diploma school

58
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When you completed nursing school in the University of Minnesota you would get a college degree. True or False

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False. You would not get your college degree

59
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The University of Maryland was the first college to give a BSN degree. True or False

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False. It was Yale University

60
Q

What did they believe nurses should build a foundation in to provide more compassionate and comprehensive care?

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Arts and Sciences

61
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How many credits do you need to complete in the BSN program?

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126-136

62
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In 2013, about how many BSN programs were there?

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700 (696)

63
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Nurse Training Act of 1964

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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this Act into law. It provided immediate assistance to anyone in the nursing field including potential nurses and schools. It also brought in 300 million dollars for nursing education with 35 million of it designated for collegiate training

64
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What is the Nursing Code of Ethics

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A central foundation used to guide nurses in their decisions and conduct

65
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What are the Essential Nursing Values and Behaviors?

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Altruism, autonomy, human dignity, and social justice

66
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American Association of Colleges of Nursing

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AACN
Essentials of BSN Education for Professional Practice

67
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Louisiana State Board of Nursing

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Louisiana state practice Act
The board protects the health and welfare of people in Louisiana.

68
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette SAC

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Nursing Department Mission Statement

69
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The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice

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AACN
Educational Framework for Preparation of Professional Nurses

70
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Institute of Medicine

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IOM
Recognizes the essentiality of nursing in the success of reforming the U.S. health care system

71
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Healthy People (magazine)

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Outlines goals for a broad-based population health set by government agencies

72
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American Nurses Association Scope and standards of practice

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ANA
Guides nurses in the application of their professional skills and responsibilities

73
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Baccalaureate Outcomes and competencies

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Identifies essential competencies and outcomes for practice

74
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What are the 1-9 BSN Curriculum Essentials?

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Delineate expected BSN graduate outcomes

75
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What is the Curriculum Essential 9

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Describes the generalist nursing practice at the completion of baccalaureate nursing education

76
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What do Essentials include?

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Practice focused outcomes that integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes

77
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What are the 4 Spheres of care?

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Wellness, Disease Preventions
Chronic Disease Care
Hospice/ palliative Care
Regenerative/ restoration Care

78
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What are the 4 major recommendations for your nursing education?

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  1. Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training
  2. Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system
  3. Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning healthcare
  4. Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure
79
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What is the federal initiative of Healthy People?

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provides science-based, national goals and objectives with 10-year targets, goals are to identify nationwide health improvement priorities, Increase public awareness in understanding health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress, identify critical research, evaluation, and data collection needs

80
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American Nurses Association

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(ANA)
Reflects the thinking of the nursing profession on various issues and should be reviewed in conjunction with state board of nursing policies and practices

81
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Nursing:Scopes and Standards of Practice. What are the professional skills and responsibilities needed to be a good nurse?

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  1. Describes the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and how of nursing practice
  2. Dependent on the nurse’s education, experience, role, and population served
  3. Each nurse is accountable for the quality of care within his/her Scope of Practice
  4. Self determination and self regulation is the highest level of professional accountability
82
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Nursing Organization: American Academy of Nursing

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AAN
Organization of all the leaders in all types of nursing
Promotes advancement of all aspects of nursing, publishes position papers, conference proceedings, and documents to ADVANCE NURSING

83
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Nurses Organization: American Association of Colleges of Nursing

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AACN
Organization of Deans and Directors of baccalaureate and higher degree nursing programs
Establishes standards of programs concerned with legislative issues that associate with nursing education and publishes the Journal of Professional Nursing

84
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Nurse Organization: American Nurse Association

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ANA
nursing organization that is concerned with broad scope of practice issues. Publications relate to practice issues and standards
standard of practice, scope of practice, ethics, legal, and employment issues

85
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Nursing Organization: Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education

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CCNE
A Subsidiary of the AACN with responsibility for establishing and implementing standards and criteria and for accreditation of baccalaureate and graduate degree programs in Nursing

86
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Nursing Organization: National Council of State Boards of Nursing

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NCSBN
Organization of ALL STATE BOARDS
CREATES licensure examinations (NCLEX)
Develops computerized licensure examinations
Establish interstate licensure protocols

87
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Nursing Organization: National League for Nursing

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NLN
National Organization of nurse educators to four types of basic training programs (LPN, diploma, ADN, and BSN)
Has lay citizens concerned with nursing on their board
Established Centers for Excellence for nursing programs

88
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Nursing Organization: NLN Accreditation Commission

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NLNAC
Formed 1997 as a subsidiary for NLN

89
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Nursing Organization: National Organization for Nurse Practitioner Facilities

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NONPF
organization of nurse practitioners in multiple specialties
Set national standards and criteria for programs and certification

90
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Nursing Organization: National Student Nurses Association

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NSNA
National Organization of statewide student nurse associates
Concerned with Education and career issues
Provides student perspectives

91
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The University of Louisiana Lafayette nursing curriculum is didactic courses with an added clinical component. True or False

A

True

92
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Cumulative Learning

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New knowledge builds on old knowledge

93
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What are 4 things success can only be achieved through in Nursing?

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  1. Perseverance
  2. Setting of Realistic Goals
  3. Strong Organization
  4. Physical and Mental Measures that allow work/life balances
94
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What are some study and learning strategies?

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Environment
Study Plan (unit objectives, lecture, and assignments and readings)
organization
practice and repetition
study groups
Supplemental Materials

95
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The minimum estimated study time is 3 hours of study per credit hour. True or False

A

False. It is 2 hours

96
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HIPAA

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A group of laws to protect medical records and other health info

97
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Asepsis

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Absence of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms

98
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Morbidity

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Condition of suffering from disease or medical condition

99
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Baccalaureate

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College bachelors degree

100
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BSN

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Bachelor of Science in Nursing

101
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Acuity

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Sharpness or keenness of thought, vision, or hearing

102
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Mortality

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The state of being subject to death

103
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Potentiate

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Increase the power, effect, or likelihood of a drug or physiological reaction

104
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What kind of evaluation is there in nursing school? What is the purpose of it

A

Written
Computer
Performance
It is to determine if student have met the pre-determined objectives and learned the matierial

105
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How could one prevent test anxiety?

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Adequate preparation
adequate rest
arrive at test site at least 10 min early
Take a few deep breaths and relax before starting
Focus on what you are doing, not how you are doing

106
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What does academic dishonesty include?

A

Cheating and plagiarism

107
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What are examples of unintentional plagiarism?

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Accidentally omitting a citation
Lack of knowledge of the original ideas
Unsure of how to give credit
Paraphrasing or quoting incorrectly

108
Q

The use of AI generation is not a form of plagiarism. True or False

A

False. It is definitely a form of plagiarism

109
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What is the maximum penalty for a student cheating or plagiarizing?

A

Dismissal from the University

110
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Civility

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Authentic respect for others when expressing disagreement, disparity, or controversy. It involves time, presence, a willingness to engage in genuine discourse, and a sincere intention to seek common ground

111
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Incivility

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Showing disregard and insolence for others, and causing an atmosphere of disrespect, conflict, and stress. It may be demonstrated by students or faculty

112
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What is the policy regarding uncivil behavior in an academic setting?

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Zero tolerance policy
*required to meet with the course faculty
*A formal reprimand or grade of F or dismissal from program
*Communicated in writing with Department Head to the Dean of Students Office

113
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Academic Dishonesty Report

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Completed by instructor then sent to department of student life and conduct in martin hall. meet with department of student life and conduct. Records are kept

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