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How many booklets for scope of practice

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  • one

- encompasses full range of nursing practice

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Function of the scope of practice

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who 
what
where 
when 
why 
how
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Employers must provide an environment that supports

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nursing practice and decision making

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Nursing practice is individualized to

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meet the unique need of situation or patient

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Nurses establish partnership with

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  • patient
  • family
  • support system
  • other healthcare providers
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Themes in all areas of nursing

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  • Age appropriate, culturally and ethically sensitive care
  • Continuity of care
  • Communicating effectively
  • Coordinating care
  • Managing information
  • Maintain safe environment
  • Educating pts about healthy practices and treatments
  • Utilizing technology
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Restorative practices

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Modify impact of illness or disease

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Supportive practices

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Oriented toward modification of relationships or the environment to support health

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Promoting practices

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  • Mobilize healthy patterns of living
  • foster personal and family development
  • support self-defined goals of individual, families, communities, and populations
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Educational path in nursing

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  • Everyone must pass the NCLEX
  • 4yr BSN, BS
  • 2 yr college Associates degree
  • 3 yr diploma program
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Masters/Doctoral Degree of nursing

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  • Certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA)
  • Certified nurse midwife (CNM)
  • Clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
  • Nurse practitioner (NP, APRN, DNP)
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Standards of Professional Nursing Practice

-Standards of Practice

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1) Assessment
2) Diagnosis
3) Outcomes Identification
4) Planning
5) Implementation
5a) Coordination
5b) Health teaching and health promotion
5c) Consultation
5d) Prescriptive authority and treatment
6) Evaluation

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Standards of Professional Nursing Practice

-Standards of Professional Performance

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7) Ethics
8) Education
9) Evidence-based practice and research
10) Quality of practice
11) Communication
12) Leadership
13) Collaboration
14) Professional practice evaluation
15) Resource utilization
16) Environmental health

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Colorado Nurse Practice Act

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  • July 1, 2010

- Sets requirements for professional, advanced practice, and practical nurse licensure

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Requirements for licensure

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  • Application
  • Proof of graduation
  • Pass NCLEX
  • Pay fee
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Colorado nurse practice act covers

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  • Retired, temporary, and volunteer nurse licensure
  • Education programs
  • Disciplinary procedures
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Contemporary nursing has it’s historical roots in the

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poorhouses, battlefields, and in the industrial revolutions in Europe and America

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Nursing workforce is the largest

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healthcare professional group in the U.S.

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RNs provide a critical safety net in healthcare but have been

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invisible in the practice and reimbursement environments

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Nursing is a learned profession built upon a core body of

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science and art

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The art of nursing is based on the

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caring and respect for human dignity

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The art of nursing embraces dynamic processes that affect the human person and

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foster health

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Nursing is a dynamic profession, blending

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evidence-based practice with intuition, caring, and compassion to provide quality care

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The nursing profession contracts with society to promote

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  • health
  • to do no harm
  • respond with skill and caring when change, birth, illness, disease, or death is experienced
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Depth and breath in which nurses practice depends on

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education
experience
role
population served

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Florence Nightingale

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1820-1910
- She was able to drop mortality rates during the Crimean War from 47-2% by opening tents for clean air, bathing the wounded, and providing clean bedding, assessing and dressing wounds, feeding the soldiers nutritious meals, and comforting those who were dying or in pain.
- Wrote letters home for the soldiers
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Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing because

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  • Established nursing as a distinct profession
  • Introduced a broad-based liberal education for nurses
  • Major reform in the delivery of care in hospitals
  • Introduced standards to control the spread of disease in hospitals
  • Major reforms in healthcare for the military
  • Stated that air, light, nutrition, adequate ventilation, and space assist the patient in recuperation
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Florence Nightingale was called the lady of the lamp because

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of her nighttime care to the wounded

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The earliest nurses were

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the angel of mercy, handmaiden, battle-ax, naughty nurse, military

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How did religious orders influence early nursing

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  • The religious figure treated the sick with many forms of medicine such as drugs, wisdom, prayer, and magic spells
  • Mostly men performed nursing
  • Providing care in spite of the risks was considered self-sacrificing, much like a call to serve in a religious life
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Injectable penicillin came into common use in

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1943

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Clara Barton

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  • She provided care close to the fighting

- established the Red Cross

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Lillian Wald

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  • 1893 founded Henry street settlement in New York to improve health and social conditions for poor immigrants
  • The start of public health nursing
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Marjorie Gordon

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  • Standardized nursing language
  • Manual of nursing diagnosis
  • The establishment of a core of knowledge based on evidence
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Virginia Henderson

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  • 14 components of basic nursing

- Nursing fundamentals

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6 essential features of professional nursing, as acknowledge by ANA

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1) Provision of a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing
2) Attention to the range of human experiences and responses to health and illness within the physical and social environments
3) Integration of objective data with knowledge gained from an appreciation of the patient or group’s subjective experience
4) Application of scientific knowledge to the processes of diagnosis and treatment through the use of judgement and critical thinking
5) Advancement of professional nursing knowledge through scholarly inquiry
6) Influence on social and public policy to promote social justice

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ANA definition of nursing

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The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual and potential health problems

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Profession

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  • Must be based on technical and scientific knowledge
  • Competence of the group members must be evaluated by a community of peers
  • Must have a service orientation and a code of ethics
  • Nursing is a profession
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Discipline

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A profession must have a domain of knowledge that has both theoretical and practical boundaries

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Nurse practice acts are

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  • Laws that regulate nursing practice

- Each state enacts its own nursing practice

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Standards of Practice are to

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  • Describe a competent level of nursing practice and professional performance common to all registered nurses
  • Authoritative statements of duties that all registered nurses, regardless of role, population, or specialty, are expected to perform competently
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National League for Nursing (NLN)

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  • establish and maintain universal standard of education.

- journal of Nursing education perspectives

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International Council of Nursing (ICN)

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  • Global level
  • Aims to ensure quality nursing care for all
  • supports global health policies
  • strives to improve working conditions for nurses throughout the world
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Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)

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National honor society for nursing

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Health defined by the WHO

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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or imfirmity

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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)

6 competencies

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  • patient-centered care
  • teamwork and collaboration
  • evidence-based practice
  • quality improvement (QI)
  • safety
  • informatics
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Dependent nursing activities/actions

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-Actions initiated by a physician in response to a medical diagnosis but carried out by a nurse under doctors orders

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Independent nursing activities/actions

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  • Actions performed by a nurse without a physician’s orders
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9 roles and functions of the nurse

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  • Direct care provider
  • Communicator
  • Client/family educator
  • Client advocate
  • Counselor
  • Change agent
  • Case manager
  • Leader
  • Manager
  • Research consumer
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6 ANA designed nursing values and beliefs

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  • Primary concern the good of the patient
  • Competent
  • Strong commitment to service
  • Believe in dignity and worth of each person
  • Strive to improve their profession
  • Work collaboratively within the profession
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4 purposes of nursing care

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  • Health promotion
  • Health restoration
  • Illness prevention
  • End-of-life care
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Benner’s stages of professional development

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  • Novice
  • Advanced beginner
  • Competent
  • Proficient
  • Expert
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What is critical thinking

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The intellectual process used in complex thinking operations

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Critical thinking skills needed

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  • objectively gather info
  • Recognize need for more info
  • Evaluate the credibility of sources
  • Recognize gaps in knowledge
  • Listening carefully; reading thoughtfully
  • Separating relevant from irrelevant data
  • Organizing or grouping info
  • Making inferences
  • Visualizing potential solutions
  • Exploring the advantages, disadvantages, and consequences of actions
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Critical thinking attitudes- feelings and state of mind

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  • Intellectual curiosity
  • Intellectual humility
  • Intellectual empathy
  • Intellectual courage
  • Intellectual perseverance
  • Independent thinking
  • Fair mindedness
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Ability to approach each client/patient as a unique individual because of

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  • differences
  • culture
  • roles
  • Other factors- age, personal bias, personality
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Theoretical knowledge

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  • info, facts, principles, and evidence- based theories
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Practical knowledge

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  • knowing what to do and how to do it
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Self-knowledge

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  • To critically think you must be aware of your beliefs, values, cultural, and religious biases
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6 steps of the nursing process

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  • Assessment
  • Diagnosis
  • Planning outcomes
  • Planning interventions
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation
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What is the nursing process

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  • A systematic problem- solving process that guides all nursing actions
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What is meant by the model of full spectrum nursing

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  • A unique blend of thinking, doing, and caring
  • Performed by nurses who fully develop and apply nursing knowledge
  • Critical thinking
  • the nursing process to patient situation for the purpose of effecting good outcomes
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3 content points of the model of full spectrum nursing

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  • thinking
  • doing
  • caring

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