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-sponsored the Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) with the initiative with the overall goal of “preparing future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary..”

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The Robert Word Johnson Foundation

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-a market approach based on managed competition as a major strategy to contain healthcare cost, still dominant approach used today

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Managed care

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-is directed to develop competencies of future nursing graduates in six key areas, including patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, teamwork, and collaboration, safety, and informatics

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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)

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-contains these assumptions: The world is evolving. There is more than meets the eye. The social world is created. Reality. Is a conception perceived in the mind. Thinking is dynamic and constructive

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Idealism

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-contains these assumptions: the world is static. Seeing is believing. The social world is a given. Reality is physical and independent. Logical thinking is superior.

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Realism

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  • leading cause of death in the 1800s

- nurses visited patients bedridden and instructed persons in all settings about prevention of the disease

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Tuberculosis (TB)

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-provided jobs for unemployed people

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Civil works administration

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-provides access to health care for older adults, poor persons and people with disabilities

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Social Security Act

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  • study on nurses and the media

- reported the lack of representation that nurses have in the media

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Woodhull study commissioned by Sigma Theta Tau International

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  • aging population
  • consumerism
  • containing cost
  • education
  • increased technology
  • access to health care
  • homelessness
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Future issues and challenges

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  • ministering angel
  • the battleaxe
  • the naughty nurse
  • the doctor’s handmaider
  • male stereotyping (gay)
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Nursing stereotypes

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  • is the lens through which you see the world

- are philosophical foundations that support our approaches to research.

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Paradigms

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  • indicates what we value

- demonstrates a personal confidence in validity of a person, object or idea

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Belief

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-the principles and ideals that give meaning and direction to our social, personal, and professional lives

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Values

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  • systems are a set of inter-related parts that make up the whole
  • open(interacts with environment) and closed(doesn’t interact with environment)
  • systems strive to maintain homeostasis (equilibrium)
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System Theory

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  • open system
  • genetic determinants
  • affected by the environment
  • capable of adapting
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Person

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  • dynamic
  • on a continuum
  • holistic
  • affected by environment (health beliefs and practices)
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Health

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  • promotes or interferes with well being
  • physical (air quality)
  • non-physical (people interaction)
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Environment

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  • integrates all concepts into a whole
  • depicts the relationship
  • open system
  • collaborative
  • requires advanced knowledge
  • requires concern, compassion and respect
  • links theory, research and practice
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Nursing

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-morality, creativity, pontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts

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  1. Self-Actualization
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-self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others, respect by others

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  1. Esteem
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-Friendship, family, sexual intimacy

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  1. Love/Belonging
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-Security of: body, employment, resources, morality, the family, health and property

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  1. Safety
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-breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion

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  1. Physiological
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-process of becoming part of a specific culture

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Socializing into the Profession

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  • published an all male calendar with monthly features of men in nursing
  • the calendar was used as a recruiting tool to help encourage men, young and old to consider the extensive opportunities in nursing
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The Mississippi Hospital Association

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