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Midterm Flashcards

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The nursing organization responsible for RN licensure is:

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CNO-college of nurses of ontario

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What is qualitative research?

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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.

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Are RNAO best practice guidelines considered evidence based or evidence informed? Provide examples.

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systematically developed, evidence-based documents.

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The philosophy of the Sault college BScN

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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

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Establishes the mandate for the college of Nurses of Ontario

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The Nursing Act, 1991

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CNA code of ethics for RN

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  1. Providing safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care
  2. Promoting health and well-being
  3. Promoting and respecting decision making
  4. Honouring dignity
  5. Maintaining privacy and confidentiality
  6. Promoting justice
  7. Being accountable
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General class of nurses

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RPN and RN

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Extended class

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NP

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Temporary class

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New graduates, out of province applicants

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Special assignment class

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Out of country applicants specific to agency

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Emergency class

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Out of province nurses during a shortage

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Non-practicing class

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Current and previous members not allowed to practice

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Practice standards

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Outline expectations for nurses that contribute to public protection. Inform nurses of their accountabilities and the public of what to expect from nurses

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Practice guildines

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Often address specific practice issues, help nurses understand their responsibilities and how to make safe and ethical decisions

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Practice standards examples

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Code of conduct, confidentiality and privacy, discontinuing or declining to provide care, documentation, medication, scope of practice, therapeutic relationships

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Practice guidelines examples

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Consent, conflict prevention, guidance on role in MAID, independent practice, pandemic planning, working with unregulated care providers

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Code of conduct principles

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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

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what is the CNA?

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National professional association for nurses in Canada

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What is the role of the CNA

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Provide different nursing certifications (community health, emergency) education is one piece of it, national framework for the code of ethics

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What is the CNO?

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Provincial governing body of nurses in ontario. College of nurses of ontario

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What is the role of the CNO?

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Provides nurses their licenses, entry to practice competencies, professional standards

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What is the RNAO

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Provincial professional association for RN in ontario. Registered nurses association of ontario

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What is the role of the RNAO?

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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)

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What is the CNSA?

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National association for nursing students

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What is the role of the CNSA?

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Provide resources for nursing students, influence and advance nursing curriculum, strengthen linkages and create new partnerships

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What is the ONA

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Ontario nurses association

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What is the role of the ONA

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Nurses union

28
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When did nursing become a caring service undertaken by women?

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the early christian period

29
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Where was the first nursing mission

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Sillery, Quebec

30
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Where was the first hospital established

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In Montreal, named Hotel-Dieu

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Who was the sisters of charity of montreal formed by

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Marguerite d’Youville

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Who was the founder of modern nursing

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Florence Nightingale

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What is the role of the ICN

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to represent nursing worldwide, advance the nursing profession, promote the wellbeing of nurses, and advocate for health in all policies.

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When was the CNO established?

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1963

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Nursings role in colonization

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Indian hospitals, Indian residential schools, Child apprehension (over-reporting and misreporting abuse), forced sterilization Missing and Murdered Indigenous women

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What are the components of Nursing theories?

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Phenomenon, concepts, definitions, relational statements, assumptions

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What are the levels of nursing theories

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  1. Nursing Metaparadigm
  2. Grand theories
  3. Mid-range theories
  4. Practice level theories
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What are the concepts in the nursing metaparadigm?

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the four concepts inherent in the nursing metaparadigm are person, environment, health, and nursing

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What are grand nursing theories

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abstract, broad, complex and require additional research to clarify

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What are mid-range theories?

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Limited in scope compared to grand theories and present concepts at a lower level of abstraction to address specific phenomenon in nursing

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What are practice level nursing theories?

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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

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Purpose of nursing theories in practice

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-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

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Purpose of nursing theories in education

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-Provide a general focus for curriculum design
-Guide curricular decision-making
-Inform teaching-learning best practices

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Purpose of nursing theories in research

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-Framework for generating and testing knowledge and new ideas
-Assist in discovering knowledge gaps in the specific field of study
-Explain phenomena

45
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What is a theory

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a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action. Used to describe, predict, or control phenomenon

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What is a philosophy?

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beliefs and values that define a way of thinking and are generally known and understood by a group or discipline

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what is nursing scope of practice in ontario?

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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

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Individual nurses professional position on evidence

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Positioned to provide optimal care by having acquired competencies for evidence-informed nursing practice as part of their foundation education

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Specialized body of knowledge professional position on evidence

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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.

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