Fundamentals: Chapter 1 Flashcards
Who established the first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration?
Florence Nightingale (1860)
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Assessment
The registered nurse collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient’s health and/or the situation.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Diagnosis
The registered nurse analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnoses or issues.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Outcomes Identification
The registered nurse identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient or the situation.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Planning
The registered nurse develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Implementation
The registered nurse implements the identified plan.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Coordination of Care
The registered nurse coordinates care delivery.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Health Teaching and Health Promotion
The registered nurse uses strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Consultation
The graduate level–prepared specialty nurse or advanced practice registered nurse provides consultation to influence the identified plan, enhance the abilities of others, and effect change.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Prescriptive Authority and Treatment
The advanced practice registered nurse uses prescriptive authority, procedures, referrals, treatment, and therapies in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations.
Describe: ANA Standards of Nursing Practice for Evaluation
The registered nurse evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
What are the 5 components of the Nursing Process?
assessment
diagnosis
outcomes identification and planning implementation
evaluation
What is the code of ethics?
The philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principles you will use to provide care to your patients.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Ethics
The registered nurse practices ethically.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Education
The registered nurse attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Evidence-based Practice and Research
The registered nurse integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Quality of Practice
The registered nurse contributes to quality nursing practice.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Communication
The registered nurse communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Leadership
The registered nurse demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Collaboration
The registered nurse collaborates with health care consumer, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Professional Practice Evaluation
The registered nurse evaluates her or his own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Resources
The registered nurse uses appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
Describe: ANA Standards of Professional Performance for Environmental Health
The registered nurse practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
What is Continuing Education?
Formal, organized programs offered by universities, hospitals, state nurses associations, professional nursing organizations, and educational and health care institutions.
What is the benefit of Continuing Education?
Promote and maintain current nursing skills, gain new knowledge and theory, and obtain new skills reflecting the changes in the health care delivery system.
What is In-Service Education?
Instruction or training provided by a health care agency or institution
What are Nursing Practice Acts? (NPA’s)
Establish specific legal regulations for practice, and professional organizations establish standards of practice as criteria for nursing care.
Why is the licensure examination for the RN license exactly the same throughout the US?
This provides a standardized minimum knowledge base for nurses.
List the 5 levels of proficiency that an expert nurse passes through when when acquiring and developing generalist or specialized nursing skills
Novice Advanced Beginner Competent Proficient Expert
What is autonomy?
Initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders
What is accountability?
Being responsible, professionally and legally, for the type and quality of nursing care provided
What does it mean to be a patient advocate?
You protect your patient’s human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises.
What does it mean to be a caregiver?
You help patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level function and independence through the healing process
What does it mean to be a patient educator?
You explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for routine care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate the patient’s progress in learning.
What is the role of the Nurse Manager?
The manager uses appropriate leadership styles to create a nursing environment for the patients and staff that reflect the mission and values of the health care organization.
What are the 4 career choices of the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)
clinical nurse specialist (CNS), certified nurse practitioner (CNP), certified nurse midwife (CNM), and certified RN anesthetist (CRNA)
What is the role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist(CNS)?
APRN who is an expert clinician in a specialized area of practice.
What is the role of a Nurse Practitioner (NP)?
APRN who provides health care to a group of patients, usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based setting
What is the role of a Certified Mid-Wife (CMW)?
APRN who is also educated in midwifery and is certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
What is the role of a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA)?
APRN with advanced education in a nurse anesthesia accredited program.
Define the Patient-Centered Care competency
Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Define the Teamwork and Collaboration competency
Function effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care.
Define the Evidence-Based Practice competency
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Define the Quality Improvement competency
Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
Define the Safety competency
Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Define the Informatics competency
Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
What is genetics?
the study of inheritance, or the way traits are passed down from one generation to another.
What is genomics?
A newer term that describes the study of all the genes in a person and interactions of these genes with one another and with that person’s environment.
