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Midterm Exam Flashcards

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What are the 7 characteristics demonstrated by a Professional Nurse?

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  • Professional Behaviors
  • Teaching and learning
  • Competence
  • Collaboration
  • Advocacy
  • Caring Interventions
  • Ethics
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What are examples of professional behaviors?

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  • looking/acting like a professional
  • Acting autonomously
  • Demonstrating commitment to nursing
  • Appearance is a form of nonverbal communication
  • strong work ethic is essential
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What are examples of Teaching and Learning

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  • life-long learning
  • Experience
  • Expertise
  • Collaboration
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What are examples of accountability/competence?

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  • ability to perform the job correctly
  • acknowledging strengths/weaknesses
  • Professional org/Associations (Research
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What are examples of collaboration?

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  • Working as a member of a team
  • Respecting others’ opinions and points of view
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Examples of Advocacy

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  • Guarding patients’ needs
  • Key concern –> American nurses association (ANA)
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What to know about Ethics?

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  • Adhere to the ANA Code of Ethics (NON-NEGOTIABLE) ***
  • Assess ethical conflicts
  • Demonstrate Integrity –> adhere to moral/ethical code
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What is key to nursing professionalism when it comes to Caring Interventions?

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Caring interventions of attitude and compassion!!

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The Nurse as Caregiver
- In what ways does a caregiver assist the patient

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  • Physically
  • Psychologically
  • Spiritually
  • Emotionally
  • Culturally
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The Nurse as Communicator

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Identify issues, advocate, and collaborate
with other members of the profession

Aim:
* Link patients with resources in the
community to enhance their well-being
* Improve information exchange
* Reduce fragmentation and duplication of services

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The Nurse as a Teacher

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  • Disease prevention and health promotion
  • Mentor unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)
  • Patient and family teaching
  • Orientating new nurses
  • Services
  • Conferences
  • Academics
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The Nurse as Patient Advocate

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  • Primary obligation is to the patient.
  • Representing the client’s needs/wishes
  • Nurses are expected to advocate for patients when they are unable to speak for themselves.
  • Nurses help patients and families make informed decisions.
  • Empower our patients
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The Nurse as Counselor

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  • Give guidance or seek professional help for clients needing support
  • Help to identify support systems
  • Assist patients in developing healthy behaviors and recognizing triggers/warnings for potentially destructive behaviors
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The Nurse as Change Agent

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  • Assist patients in making modifications to their behavior
  • Advocate for policy changes and procedures that impact patient care
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The Nurse as Leader

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  • Influence others to accomplish goals
  • Listen and learn before speaking and acting.
  • Envision and invest in others’ greatness.
  • Build community by developing strategic relationships.
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The Nurse as Manager

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  • Managers advocate for the profession, subordinates, workplace, and patients.
  • Delegate activities
  • Evaluate performance
  • Serve as mentors
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The Nurse as Case Manager

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  • Work with other members of the healthcare team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and monitor outcomes
  • Can be located in nursing units, insurance companies, etc.
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The Nurse as Researcher

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  • Protect the rights of patients as human subjects.
  • Find solutions to problems
  • Improve the care of people in clinical settings.
  • Have knowledge of the process and
    language of research
  • Provide evidence-based nursing practice.
  • Appraise research studies and apply them in
    practice.
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Professional Organizations

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American Nurses Association(ANA)
* Advance the profession of nursing to improve health for all
* Code of Ethics

Sigma Theta Tau
* Helps fund nursing research grants
* International community of nurses dedicated to advancement of knowledge, teaching, learning and service through practice, education and research

National League for Nurses(NLN)
* Focused on building a strong and diverse nursing workforce

National Student Nurses Association (NSNA)
* Students enrolled in nursing education programs
* Goal of assisting nursing students to foster professional development

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example of Expanded career roles for nurses

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  • Nurse Practitioner
  • Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Nurse Anesthetist
  • Nurse-Midwife
  • Nurse Researcher
  • Nurse Administrator
  • Nurse Educator
  • Nurse Entrepreneur
  • Clinical Nurse Leader
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EBP vs. Research

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EBP: Analyze and translate research findings to improve practice (Question is used to conduct a literature review and seek answers

Research: Generating new knowledge about a phenomenon that can be generalized (Question is Tested)

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  • Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a __________-________ blend of research + evidence with ______ experience.
  • Research: a formal systematic way of answering a _______ or approaching a problem
  • Evidence: nursing knowledge based on expert ______ or information resulting from __________
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problem-solving; nursing

question

opinion; research

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What are the 4 steps of EBP?

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  1. Developing a clinical question
  2. Retrieve the evidence
    - review literature (<5 yrs)
  3. Evaluate the Evidence
    - Must be analyzed (validity, reliability, usefulness)
  4. Apply The Evidence
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What does PICOT stand for?

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P: patient, population, or problem of interest
I: Intervention of Interest
C: Comparison of Interest
O: Outcome of Interest
T: Time

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What are some barriers to EBP?

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  • Too few research studies
  • Management not supportive of EBP
  • Lack of resources
  • Workplace culture resistant to change.
  • Not enough time due to workload
  • Patient preferences
  • Lack of access to continuing education programs
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What are the 3 components of EBP?

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  1. The integration of best evidence from the most up-to-date research
  2. The nurse’s clinical expertise
  3. The patients’ preferences, values, and engagement in care decisions
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What are the 2 models for EBP?

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Iowa Model and Stetler Model

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What does the stetler model provide

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provides a framework to assist with the use of research evidence in practice for individual nurses or healthcare institutions

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what are the sections of a research article?

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Abstract, Introduction, Method, Discussion/Conclusion, Summary

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What is a variable?

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Something that varies and has different values that can be measured

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What is a dependent variable

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the variable being studied, determined as a result of the study

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What is an Independent Variable

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Causes or conditions that are manipulated or identified to determine the effects on the dependent variable

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What are experimental quantitative research

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  • investigator plays an active role and has more control over the research situation

ex: experimental, quasi-experimental, pre-experimental

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What are non-experimental quantitative research

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  • Investigator collects data without actively manipulating any variable
  • researcher has LESS CONTROL

ex:
- survey studies
- correlational studies
- comparative studies
- methodological studies

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What is a Quasi-experimental Research

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randomization may not be possible, or may not be a control group/comparison group
- lack of control makes evidence provided less convincing

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another name for probability sampling

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random sampling

37
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what is simple random sampling

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each person has an equal and independent chance for selection
ex: drawing names from a hat

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what is stratified random smapling

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population is divided into subgroups (strata) and then randomly taken from each group

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what is cluster random sampling

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  • large groups or clusters become the sampling units
  • random sampling of units (clusters) that progress from large to small
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what type of research seeks to answer difficult “why” questions and the goal is to understand the phenomenon as those participants who are immersed in the experience

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qualitative research

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what is the purpose of phenomenology

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Answers questions of meaning; describes an experience

42
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what does ethnography focus on?

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Focuses on a cultural system and on social relationships
- to understand the way of life of individuals who are connected through group membership

43
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another way of saying non probability

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non random

44
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with a nonprobability sampling, there is a more possibility for a _______ sample

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Biased

45
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Convenience Sampling

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  • Commonly used in Research
  • cost-effective and quick
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What is Quota Sampling

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  • Subjects who meet the inclusion criteria are recruited and consecutively enrolled until the “quota” is met and the sample size is reached
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What is Purposive Sampling

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  • Handpicking of subjects
  • Most common in qualitative research

used for highly unusual group (huntington disease)

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What is validity

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  • The extent to which an
    instrument accurately measures what it is intended to measure.
  • Different types of validity (ie: face, content)
    Remember ** A measure cannot be valid unless it is reliable**
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What is reliability

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how consistently the instrument measures the variable

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What are the 4 phases of EBP Implementation

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Phase 1: Creating Awareness

Phase 2: Building knowledge and commitment

Phase 3: Promoting Action and Adoption

Phase 4: Pursuing Integration and Sustainability

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Phase 1: Creating Awareness

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  • Create interest among clinicians
    and stakeholders
  • Involve senior executives early in
    the EBP process.
  • Highlight the positive
    characteristics of your EBP change
  • Integrate a journal club into the
    implementation process
  • Create slogans and logos to get
    attention!
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Phase 2: Building knowledge and commitment

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  • Host educational sessions

– Unit inservices
– Readings
– Online learning modules
– Simulation trainings

  • Train change agents
  • Building knowledge and commitment provides an essential foundation for promoting action and adoption of the EBP change
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What are ethics

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a system of moral principles and nursing beliefs and values

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What is morality?

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private, personal standards of what is right and wrong in conduct, character, and attitude

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What is Altruism

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the concern for the welfare and well-being of others

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What is human dignity?

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refers to the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations.

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What is social justice?

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refers to the upholding of justice, or what is fair, on a social scale

  • nurse treats all patients equally without regard to economic status, age, gender, etc.
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What is the code of ethics?

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it is both a general guide for a profession’s membership and a social contract with the public that the profession serves

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What is beneficence

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it requires that nurses take action to promote good bc their basic obligation is to help others

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What is nonmaleficence

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requires that nurses do no harm and instead safeguard their parents

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What is veracity

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individuals who always tell the truth

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What is Inquiry

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Search for knowledge or facts to gain clarification/find solutions to problems

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what does it mean to have a spirit of inquiry?

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nurse’s way of trying to provide high-quality, safe patient care

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The search for the best evidence starts with what?

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a spirit of inquiry

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what is rigor

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the attempts by the researcher to produce high-quality research by actions that will improve the standard of the study

  • looks at the reliability + validity + bias
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what 4 things improve rigor

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  1. thorough lit review
  2. clear research design
  3. method of data collection
  4. appropriate statistical tests
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What does the statistical significance and the P value determine?

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It determines if the results are by chance or from your intervention

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a low p value is better or worse?

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better

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what is generalizability

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can the findings be applied to other groups and settings outside of this one

  • can you generalize your findings to other groups of people
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What is abstract

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the “snapshot” summary of the key points of the article
- persuades the reader to continue reading

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What should the method section include?

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  • the setting
  • the sample
  • methods of measuring
  • instruments to collect data
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Other names for the results section

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  • Statistical analyses
  • Data analysis
73
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Dissemination of research findings includes

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  • publication
  • poster
  • conferences
  • consultations
  • training programs
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what to include in a written report?

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  • results or findings of the data analysis
  • discussion of the reported findings
  • conclusions drawn by the researcher
  • implications of the data collection
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what association makes the code of ethics for nurses

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American Nurses Association

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Provisions 1-3 talk about what?

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Nurses and Patients

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Provisions 4-6 talk about what?

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Boundaries of Duty/Loyalty

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Provisions 7-9 talk about what

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Beyond individual patient encounters

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The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person

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Provision 1

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The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population

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Provision 2

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The nurse promotes, advocates for and protected the rights, health and safety of the patient

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Provision 3

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The nurse has authority, accountablity and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health

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provision 4

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The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth

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Provision 5

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The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality healthcare

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Provision 6

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The nurse in all roles and settings advances the profession through research and professional scholarly inquiry

FOCUSES ON RESEARCH IN NURSING

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Provision 7

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The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities

(talks about healthcare being as a universal right)

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Provision 8

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The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social justice into nursing and health policy

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Provision 9

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