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What was the first war that Florence Nightingale was involved in?

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Crimean

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During Florence Nightingale’s time, women typically were involved in what type of work or activity?

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Housework, typically did not travel outside of home to work

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What organization represents all RNs in the US?

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ANA (American Nurses Association)

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Who was Dorthea Dix?

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Union superintendent of Female Nurses in Civil War that improved conditions of mentally ill that were caged and mistreated

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Who was Linda Richards?

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America’s “first trained nurse” that was the first to create individual patient record via documentation

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What three individuals started the Jefferson Street Mission?

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Lillian Wald, Sue Barton, Lavinia Dock

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What did the Jefferson Street Mission later become named?

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Henry Street Settlement

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Who was Ignaz Semmelweis?

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A physician that questioned 20% childbirth death rate, and suggested that cleanliness could prevent spread of disease.

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Did Ignaz Semmelweis receive rightful recognition from his colleagues?

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No

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What organized religion and/or military establishments linked with care of the sick?

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Yes

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Who was Margaret Sanger?

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She fought for birth control, and though she is credited with abortions, she became the foundation for planned parenthood.

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What are the characteristics of a profession? (Leniency)

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  1. A systematic body of knowledge that provides the framework for the profession’s practice.
  2. A standardized, formal higher education.
  3. Commitment to providing service that benefits individuals and the community.
  4. Maintenance of a unique role that recognizes autonomy, responsibility, and accountability.
  5. Control of practice responsibility of the profession through standards and code of ethics.
  6. Commitment to members of the profession through progressional organizations and activities.
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Are nurses in general agreement with how to improve the image of nursing?

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No; generations arguing over how nurses should act

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What role should each nurse take to improve the image of nursing in the community?

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Power, empowerment, assertiveness, advocacy, and need for men and minorities

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What was the Johnson&Johnson Campaign? What did the campaign include?

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It was a campaign to encourage the public to view nursing as a male profession, too, and as important and seriously.

Included sponsoring a recruiting video, funding a nursing website, and raising funds for faculty fellowships and student scholarships

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What are the key roles of nurses? (Leniency)

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Provider of care
Educator
Counselor
Manager
Researcher
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If we define nurses by describing tasks, what are we talking about?

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What nurses do

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What do we mean by nurses being knowledge workers?

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Nurses can recognize change is inevitable and the best approach is to be ready for change and vi it as an opportunity for learning and improvement.

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What is critical thinking?

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Used to help apply knowledge, evidence, and caring to the nursing process and become competent.

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A knowledge worker uses C______, C______, and C______ ______ when serving as a nurse.

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Collaboration, coordination, and critical thinking

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What is competency?

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Expected demonstrable behavior that changes the focus of knowledge.

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What are the five core competencies identified by the IOM?

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  1. Provide care-centered care
  2. Work in interdisciplinary/interprofessional teams
  3. Employ evidence-based practice
  4. Apply quality improvement
  5. Utilize informatics
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Describe the interprofessional tam (leniency):

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Deliberately working together with the common goal of building a safer and better patient-centered and community/population oriented US healthcare system.

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What is delegation?

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Appointing a task to another individual

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What are the “five rights” of nursing delegation?

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Right:

  1. ..task
  2. ..circumstance
  3. ..person
  4. ..direction/communication
  5. …supervision
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To whom can a RN delegate patient teaching?

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Anyone with the proper training for the task

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What is empowerment?

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Motivation and confidence

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What is collaboration?

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All the people involved are listened to and that decisions are developed together.

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What are some elements of effective teams? (Leniency)

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Openness, collaboration, teamwork, and learning from mistakes

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What is coordination?

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The process of achieving unity of action among interdependent activities.

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What does describing a hospital’s structure refer to?

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How the organization is configured

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What does describing a hospital’s process refer to?

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How the organization functions

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Describe a bureaucratic organization:

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Hierarchy, impersonal

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What is the largest department in a hospital?

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Nursing

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What roles to the following healthcare professionals have:

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  1. Respiratory therapist: respiratory problems
  2. Registered nurse: many positions and departments
  3. Occupational therapist: rehabilitation needs due to impaired functioning (stroke, accident, special needs)
  4. Dietician: resolve dietary and nutritional needs
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Does the U.S. have a universal healthcare system of coverage for all individuals?

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No

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What is patient-centered care? (Leniency)

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Identity, respect, and care about patients’ differences, values, preferences, and expressed needs; communication with, informing, and education patients; sharing decision making, advocation, promoting good health

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Are here disparities in the healthcare professions’ workforce?

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Yes

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Do disparities in the healthcare professions’ workforce contribute to health disparities outcomes?

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Yes

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What is clinical reasoning?

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Planning, implementing, and evaluating patient-centered care

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What is critical thinking? (Leniency)

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Generating and examining questions and problems, using intuition, examining feelings, and clarifying and evaluating evidence

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What is patient advocacy? (Leniency)

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Supporting patient and family education, patient satisfaction and the complaint process, and efforts to improve care

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What is clinical judgment? (Leniency)

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The ways nurses come to understand the problems, issues, or concerns of patients, to attend to salient information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways.

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What is the NCSBN?

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Nation Council of State Boards of Nursing

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The NCSBN has set boundaries in the nurse-patient relationship. Whose responsibility is it delineate and maintain boundaries between the nurse and patient relationship?

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The nurse’s

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What are the steps in the nursing process?

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  1. Assessment
  2. Diagnosis
  3. Planning
  4. Implementation
  5. Evaluation
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Health promotion focuses on changing lifestyle to maximize health and is an important part of primary prevention. What are some health promotion programs that focus on healthy lifestyle choices?

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Healthy People 2020

47
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Disease prevention means to try and stop the development of disease, but it also includes treatment to prevent disease form progressing further and leading to complications. What are the three major levels of prevention?

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  1. Assessment
  2. Policy development
  3. Assurance
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What does the continuum of care cover?

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How care is delivered in a variety of settings.

Goals: to decrease fragmented care and costs

49
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What is the main role of the Institutional Review Board’s (IRB) in research?

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Ensures the research process meets ethical and legal requirements.

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Research is a systematic investigation that is designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. There are 2 major types of research approaches: basic and applied research. What are they?

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Basic research: research designer to broaden the base of knowledge rather than solve an immediate problem
Applied research: research designed to find a solution to a practical problem

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Remember that employing evidence-based practice requires the use of research findings but also what/who else?

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Clinical expertise, patient values and preferences/circumstances, clinical data (assessment) and history

52
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When evaluation information literature for writing nursing papers and making clinical decisions:

  1. Are blogs and informal Internet sources permissible?
  2. Should newspapers and magazine articles in the popular press be use?
  3. Are data from sites such as WHO, governmental websites, and professional organization websites good sources of facts and data?
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  1. No
  2. Maybe, statistical info or evidence
  3. Yes
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What is the highest level of evidence to base nursing practice?

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Healthcare organization policies and procedures, and clinical guidelines

54
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What are basic elements of APA format?

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APA style title page: Page Number, Running head, Short Title, Title of the Paper, Student Name; 1 inch margins, double spaced, reference page

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How are quotations that are less than 40 words incorporated into the text?

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( )

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How are quotations that are more than 40 words incorporated into the text?

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