Lecture 2 Flashcards

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Why was nursing education from 100 years ago considered Exploitative?

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Because women in poor conditions were convinced to become nurses to better themselves. Nursing at that time a very demanding and strict with little pay

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Leaders in Nursing education today seek to ____

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transform nursing in a way that honors nursing’s social contract with the public

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the ____ of nurses plays a critical role in their ability to practice safely and achieve ___ outcomes for their patients

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Education

Optimal

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What is the IOM?

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The institute of Medicine

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According to the IOM’s article “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010)”
What four things do nurses need to be/do

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  1. Practice to their fullest extent
  2. Attain higher ed through a system of seamless progression
  3. Be full partners with other HC professionals
  4. Use imporved data collection to better policy and plan development
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When did Nursing Schools begin to transition into Universities and Colleges?
What report recommended this transititon

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beginning in the 1948

brown report

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What three recommendations did the ANA make in 1965?

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  1. Nursing Ed should be in institutes of higher education
  2. Min of a BSN to be a nurse
  3. RN assistants to have education in short vocational programs
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What three additional recommendations did the ANA make in 1979?

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  1. Min of a BSN for alll nurses by 1985
  2. Two levels of nurses (professional and Tech)
  3. More access to HQ career mobility programs
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What was determined in the 1980’s as the major block in advancement of nursing by the National Commission on Nursing

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the ongoing conflict within the profession about education prep

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What did the National Commission on Nursing recommend to better the advancement of nursing in the 1980’s

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To establish a clear system of nursing education and increased number of graduate programs

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What was the ADN degree made available? it was created due to_____

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in 1952

Due to the post WW2 nursing shortage and community college movement

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What is an external nursing degree?

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  • Independent learning
  • Highly standardized
  • Student arranged Clinical
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Who is the most well established External Nursing degree Program? when was it first offered?

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Excelsior

1970

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What is an articulation agreement?

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for example all wa LPN programs must be able to articulate to RN and Rn to BSN

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What is Accreditation?

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A voluntary review process by a professional organization

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What is the purpose of Accreditation?

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to show the program has met established standards for program effectiveness

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Who is the NLNAC? What programs do the Accredit

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Nation League of Nursing Accreditation Commission (ADN)

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Who is the CCNE when were they founded and who do the Accredit

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Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
1998
(BSN)

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When did the rapid development of Doctoral programs for nurses begin?

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1970s

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20
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By the end of the 1950s how many Nursing PhDs had been awarded?

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36

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21
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When was the DNP created?

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2004

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22
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What are Certification programs?

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Tests and education taken to increase skill and knowledge base that go beyond licensure

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What is Continuing Education?

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Education required to maintain licensure

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What are considered contact hours?

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What is a CEARP? What is the benefit vs CE or CEU?
A continuing education approval & recognition program. | Type of continuing education that is transferable and needed to maintain certain cirtifications
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Why are we facing faculty shortages in Nursing?
The current Nursing educators are aging and the education bodies do not offer desirable benefits to younger nurses
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What is QSEN?
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
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What is politics?
The science of government and the management of a political party
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What is policy?
A plan or course of action to influence and determine decisions, actions and other matters
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What is power?
Strength that is exerted or capable of being exerted
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What is Authority
Legitimacy to exert power
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What is influence?
A form of power that is not legitimated through official channels -the action of producing effects on the actions, behavior, and opinion of others
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What are the three types of nursing organizations?
- Broad purpose - Specialty - Special interest
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What is the political role of a nurse citizen?
They bring the perspective of health care to the voting booth and to the community
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What is the political role of a nurse activist?
A nurse who takes an active role in community involvement usually due to an issue that personally affects the nurse
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What is a nurse politician?
A nurse who develops legislation
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What are nursing standards?
- They allow nurses to carry out professional roles. | - Serve as protection for the nurse, patient, and institution
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What are nursing practice acts?
Laws established in each state to regulate the practice of nursing
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Where can you find the Nursing practice acts in WA?
The Washington Administrative Code (WAC): 246-840-700 (Standards of nursing conduct or practice) -The Revised code of Washington (RCW)
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What does the nursing process integrate?
The art and science of nursing
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What is the NANDA?
The North American | Nursing Diagnosis Association
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A nurse who has met the outcomes of the OC nursing program will... (4 things)
- Have professional values - Have excellent communication skills - Have advanced clinical reasoning - Be Practiced in Nursing informatics/ information literacy
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What is self assessment?
The process of looking at oneself in order to assess aspects that are important to ones identity
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What is the purpose of a self assessment?
it is an evaluation of one's own abilities and failings
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What is peer assessment?
Evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work
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What is the purpose of peer assessment?
- A form of self regulation withing an academic body - Maintains standards - Improves performance - Provides creditibility
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What are some peer assessment barriers?
- Cooperation - Collaboration - Incompetence - Differing value, culture,education.
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___ and ___ are the foundations of scientifically based nursing practice?
Theory and research
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What are the three components of Evidence-based practice?
- Clinical expertise - Patient Values - Best research evidence
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What are the three techniques used to apply EBP?
- Empirical knowledge/practice - Trial & error - Intuition
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Nursing process is a means of __________ to the management of patient care
Adapting a scientific framework
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What is nursing research?
(a form of EBP) | The systematic investigation of phenomena related to improving specific aspects of health care and/or nursing
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What is inductive reasoning?
- A particular outcome comes from a situation - Generalizations come from observations of that outcome - Conclusions are "True" until noted otherwise
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What is deductive reasoning?
- A process that begins with a general experience - Becomes specific to certain cases - Conclusions are valid