Midterm Flashcards
The nursing organization responsible for RN licensure is:
CNO-college of nurses of ontario
What is qualitative research?
aims to gather and analyse non-numerical data in order to gain an understanding of individuals’ social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation.
Are RNAO best practice guidelines considered evidence based or evidence informed? Provide examples.
systematically developed, evidence-based documents.
The philosophy of the Sault college BScN
Vision
Shaping nursing leaders who contribute to quality health advancement of all peoples, locally, provincially, nationally, and/or globally.
Mission:
To foster progressive practitioners who aspire for excellence in nursing through practice, scholarship, and life-long learning.
Values:
Accountability, social justice, collaboration, caring, inclusivity and excellence in teaching and learning
Establishes the mandate for the college of Nurses of Ontario
The Nursing Act, 1991
CNA code of ethics for RN
- Providing safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care
- Promoting health and well-being
- Promoting and respecting decision making
- Honouring dignity
- Maintaining privacy and confidentiality
- Promoting justice
- Being accountable
General class of nurses
RPN and RN
Extended class
NP
Temporary class
New graduates, out of province applicants
Special assignment class
Out of country applicants specific to agency
Emergency class
Out of province nurses during a shortage
Non-practicing class
Current and previous members not allowed to practice
Practice standards
Outline expectations for nurses that contribute to public protection. Inform nurses of their accountabilities and the public of what to expect from nurses
Practice guildines
Often address specific practice issues, help nurses understand their responsibilities and how to make safe and ethical decisions
Practice standards examples
Code of conduct, confidentiality and privacy, discontinuing or declining to provide care, documentation, medication, scope of practice, therapeutic relationships
Practice guidelines examples
Consent, conflict prevention, guidance on role in MAID, independent practice, pandemic planning, working with unregulated care providers
Code of conduct principles
Nurses respect clients dignity, nurses provide inclusive and safe care by practicing cultural humility, provide safe and competent care, work respectfully with the health care team, act with integrity, maintain public confidence
what is the CNA?
National professional association for nurses in Canada
What is the role of the CNA
Provide different nursing certifications (community health, emergency) education is one piece of it, national framework for the code of ethics
What is the CNO?
Provincial governing body of nurses in ontario. College of nurses of ontario
What is the role of the CNO?
Provides nurses their licenses, entry to practice competencies, professional standards
What is the RNAO
Provincial professional association for RN in ontario. Registered nurses association of ontario
What is the role of the RNAO?
advocate for healthy public policy, promote excellence in nursing practice, and power nurses to actively influence and shape decisions that affect the profession and the public they serve. (Best practice guidelines)
What is the CNSA?
National association for nursing students
What is the role of the CNSA?
Provide resources for nursing students, influence and advance nursing curriculum, strengthen linkages and create new partnerships
What is the ONA
Ontario nurses association
What is the role of the ONA
Nurses union
When did nursing become a caring service undertaken by women?
the early christian period
Where was the first nursing mission
Sillery, Quebec
Where was the first hospital established
In Montreal, named Hotel-Dieu
Who was the sisters of charity of montreal formed by
Marguerite d’Youville
Who was the founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
What is the role of the ICN
to represent nursing worldwide, advance the nursing profession, promote the wellbeing of nurses, and advocate for health in all policies.
When was the CNO established?
1963
Nursings role in colonization
Indian hospitals, Indian residential schools, Child apprehension (over-reporting and misreporting abuse), forced sterilization Missing and Murdered Indigenous women
What are the components of Nursing theories?
Phenomenon, concepts, definitions, relational statements, assumptions
What are the levels of nursing theories
- Nursing Metaparadigm
- Grand theories
- Mid-range theories
- Practice level theories
What are the concepts in the nursing metaparadigm?
the four concepts inherent in the nursing metaparadigm are person, environment, health, and nursing
What are grand nursing theories
abstract, broad, complex and require additional research to clarify
What are mid-range theories?
Limited in scope compared to grand theories and present concepts at a lower level of abstraction to address specific phenomenon in nursing
What are practice level nursing theories?
situation specific that are narrow in scope and focus on a specific patient at a specific time. They provide a framework for nursing interventions and suggest outcomes of nursing practice
Purpose of nursing theories in practice
-Describe, explain and predict every day experiences.
-guide assessment, interventions and evaluation of nursing care.
-provide a rationale for collecting reliable and valid data
-enhance autonomy of nursing
Purpose of nursing theories in education
-Provide a general focus for curriculum design
-Guide curricular decision-making
-Inform teaching-learning best practices
Purpose of nursing theories in research
-Framework for generating and testing knowledge and new ideas
-Assist in discovering knowledge gaps in the specific field of study
-Explain phenomena
What is a theory
a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action. Used to describe, predict, or control phenomenon
What is a philosophy?
beliefs and values that define a way of thinking and are generally known and understood by a group or discipline
what is nursing scope of practice in ontario?
The practice of nursing is the promotion of health and the assessment of, the provision of care for and the treatment of health conditions by supportive, preventive, therapeutic, palliative, and rehabilitative means to attain or maintain optimal function
Individual nurses professional position on evidence
Positioned to provide optimal care by having acquired competencies for evidence-informed nursing practice as part of their foundation education
Specialized body of knowledge professional position on evidence
Draws on diverse sources of knowledge and ways of knowing; including the integration of nursing knowledge from the sciences, humanities, research, ethics, spirituality, relational practice, critical inquiry, and primary health care principles.
