Final Exam Flashcards
This person had a sanitation theme. Wanted to put clients in a better environment for nature to act. Focused on improving patients by clean air, water, food, rest
Florence Nightinggale
This person believed that it was important for the nurse to assist the person in activities they would do if not sick and had the strength
Virginia Henderson
This person advocated for mental health treatment. She volunteered as a nurse in the civil war.
Dorothea Dix
This person spoke about relationship of training schools for nurses to hospitals. National league of nursing and wrote several books on the history of nursing.
Lavina Dock
1 Liter = how many ml?
1000mL
1kg = how many grams?
1000 grams
1 mg = how many micrograms
1000 mcg
1oz= how many mL
30mL
1tsp=how many ml?
5 mL
1tbsp= how many mL
15ml
1kg= how many lbs
2.2 lbs
1inch = how many cm
2.54 cm
1 unit = how many mu
1000 mu
What are the formulas for converting temperature?
F you’re going up so add 32 (C x 1.8) + 32
C you’re going down so divide by 1.8
(F-32)/1.8
Failure to exercise degree of care
Negligence
Professional negligence. Liability from improper practice based on standards required by profession
Malpractice
Relates to people responding to emergencies
Good Samaritan act
How do we mix 2 insulin’s in one syringe?
Always draw regular insulin 1st total number of syringe=2 insulin orders together added “clear before cloudy”
The act of doing or producing good
Beneficence
Right to freedom of choice, independence
Autonomy
Obligation to be “faithful” to the agreements, commitments, responsibilities that one has made to himself and others
Fidelity
Fairness, conformity to truth, moral rightness in action
Justice
Telling the truth or not intentionally misleading clients
Veracity
DNR
Do not perform CPR
Dramatically changed the form and direction of nursing
●Set standards for nursing education and made significant recommendations for changes in how hospitals operated and how nursing was practiced
●Many of her recommendations are valid today
●Wrote Notes on Nursing
Florence nightingale
●When were early schools of nursing established?
A.During American Revolution
B.During Crimean War
C.After Civil War
D.Spanish American War
After the civil war
What were nursing schools like in the beginning?
●Established shortly after Civil War
●Curriculum fashioned after Nightingale School in England
●Early programs primarily apprenticeships, with long hours during which students provided much of the workforce of the hospital with little time left for study
●Is the following statement true or false?
The wars in which the United States have been involved have had a significant impact on nursing.
The wars in which the United States have been involved have had a significant impact on nursing. Nurses have always played an important role in the care of the wounded and dying, and over the years have taken increasingly important roles.
Is the following statement true or false?
Nursing deals with diagnosis and treatment of disease.
False, medicine does this. Nursing is concerned with caring for the person
Is the following statement true or false?
Always draw up the regular insulin into the syringe first.
True. Clear before cloudy
Regular Humulin insulin 20 units and NPH Humulin insulin 12 units every day subcutaneously
Supply: Regular Humulin insulin 100 units/mL and NPH Humulin insulin 100 units/mL
What will be the total units in the syringe?
A.12 units
B.20 units
C.32 units
D.42 units
32 units
Justice: patient/client’s right to receive a high standard of care.
Justice
Fidelity: Keep promises made to the patient/client.
Fidelity
