Final Exam Review Flashcards
What are 3 note taking methods?
Outlining, Cornell, and Mapping
How many working nurses are there in the US today?
2.6 million nurses
What are 4 nursing goals?
- Promote health
- Prevent illness
- Restore health
- Facilitate coping
What is Flexner’s Criteria?
10 classic criteria used as a standard to identify characteristics of a profession
Discuss Professional Commitment. What are the examples of this?
Life long learning, identification of one’s self with a profession, responsibility and accountability, and promoting a profession
What education level is expected to expand nursing knowledge through research?
Doctoral programs
What is morality?
A personal standard of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in a situation
HIPPA is a policy related to which ethical principle?
Confidentiality
This entity signs amendments and bills into law.
The executive branch
Name 2 causes for nursing litigation
- Failure to use adequate precautions to protect against patient injury
- Dysfunctional communication
- Poor record keeping
- Abandonment
- Failure to teach
- Using faulty equipment
What are the 3 payers of healthcare?
Self-pay
Employee insurance
Government
What are the [4] major components of grand nursing theories?
Person
Health
Environment
Nursing
These are the 3 elements in the definition of leadership.
Power
Others
Shared vision
What is one journal that AACN produces?
Journal of professional nursing
What government funded program funds 17% of all health services and provides health insurance to citizens over the age of 65 who have worked at least 10 years?
Medicare
What are headaches, tense muscles, and upset stomach all signs of?
Test anxiety
What is a provision of caring relationship that facilitates health and healing?
Nursing
Inspiring members to be ethical and protecting society are all included in the purpose of this?
Code of Ethics
What is abandonment?
When duty to give care is ignored
What phase of research involves collecting data and preparing data for analysis?
Empirical Phase
During the past 50 years, what has happened to life expectancy?
It has increased by 8 years
What is the leading cause of death in the US?
Cardiovascular Disease
What age bracket are 50% of the poor in the US in?
Under 18 and over 65
According to research, abortions in the US have trended in what direction?
They have decreased by 33%
According to research statistics, what is the direction of the rate of teen pregnancy?
It is decreasing
Radiology technicians need to have more training in order to work with these specific radiology tests.
CT and MRI
