NSG 130 Test 1 Prep Flashcards
Reference material: 1. Giddens37 2. Potter 1 4. Giddens46 4. Potter26
What are the 5 professional responsibilities and roles for nurses?
Caregiver, educator, advocate, communicator, manager
(Professionalism PPT)
What professional responsibility and role fits this description: “help patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing process. provide evidence-based nursing care to promote healing through both physical and interpersonal skills. support patients by providing measures that restore their emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. help the patient and family set outcomes and assist them with meeting those outcomes with minimal financial cost, time, and energy.”
Caregiver
(Potter1 Professionalism)
What professional responsibility and role fits this description: “protect your patient’s human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting those rights if the need arises. As an advocate you act on behalf of your patient, such as safeguarding their care against errors, suggesting alternatives to care, securing your patient’s health care rights, and facilitating personal and cultural preferences”
Advocate
(Potter1 Professionalism)
What professional responsibility and role fits this description: “improves patients’ knowledge, skills, self-care activities, and ability to make informed decisions. identify patients’ willingness and ability to learn, explain concepts and facts about their health, describe the reason for care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate the patient’s progress in learning. Assess your patient’s and family caregiver’s learning styles and needs and develop a teaching plan that meets your patients’ self-management objectives and includes teaching methods that match your patient’s and family’s needs”
Educator
(Potter1 Professionalism)
What professional responsibility and role fits this description: “Know your patients, including their preferences, strengths, weaknesses, and needs. routinely communicate with patients and families, other nurses and health care professionals, resource people, and the community. Fundamental to providing high-quality care, coordinating and managing patient care, assisting patients in rehabilitation, advocating for patients, assisting patients and families in decision making, and providing patient education.”
Communicator
(Potter1 Professionalism)
What professional responsibility and role fits this description: “Direct groups of nurses by establishing an environment for collaborative patient-centered care and safe, evidence-based quality care with positive patient outcomes. Coordinates the activities of members of a nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency. Uses appropriate leadership styles to create a nursing environment for patients and staff that reflects the mission and values of the health care organization”
Manager
(Potter1 Professionalism)
Caregiver/Provider, Educator, Patient Advocate, Leader, Manager, Change Agent, Researcher, Delegator, and Collaborator are all what kind of roles?
Inherent
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
Faith Community Nurse, Flight Nurse, Forensic Nurse, Hospice Nurse, Informatics Nurse Specialist, Occupational Health Nurse, Quality Manager, School Nurse, Telephone Triage ans (Telehealth) Nurse are all what kind of roles?
Career Roles:
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
Nurse educator, nurse administrator, nurse researcher, and case manager are what kind of nursing roles?
Expanded
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
Preparation for this role occurs at the graduate and doctoral levels. They are competent in clinical practice and assume leadership in curriculum development, instruction, and evaluation. Knowledge of the learning process and classroom and clinical teaching methods that include engagement and online teaching is essential.
Nurse educator
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
Which expanded role manages patient care and the delivery of specific nursing services within a health care agency. Experience and additional education sometimes lead to a middle-management position such as nurse manager of a specific patient care area or house supervisor or to an upper-management position such as associate director or director of nursing services.
Nurse administrator
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
What expanded role conducts evidence-based practice and research to improve nursing care and further define and expand the scope of nursing practice. He or she often works in an academic setting, hospital, or independent professional or community service agency. The preferred educational requirement is a doctoral degree, with at least a master’s degree in nursing.
Nurse researcher
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
What expanded role encompasses the complex job of identifying the best resources at the lowest cost to achieve the optimal health outcome for the patient. This role can be provided in either the inpatient or outpatient setting.
Case manager
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
__________ are the minimum acceptable guidelines for providing and evaluating nursing care.
Standards of practice
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
The standards set forth by the APN consist of how many parts and what are they?
Two. The “Nursing Process” and the “Professional Nursing Practice”
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
_____ is the multistep scientific approach nurses use to care for their patients.
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
Nursing process
______ emphasizes standards of professional performance.
Professional nursing practice
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
All of the following are considered to be under what. part of the standards of practice?
ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice, research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
What are the ANA’s Standards Of Practice?
Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcome identification, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which standard of practice is described as: “The registered nurse collects comprehensive data pertinent to theatient’s health or the situation.
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Assessment
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which standard of practice is described as: “The registered nurse analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnoses or issues.
Diagnosis
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which standard of practice is described as: “The registered nurse identifies expected outcomes for a plan that is individualized to the patient or situation.”
Outcomes identification
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which standard of practice is described as: “The registered nurse develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
Planning
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which standard of practice is described as: “ The registered nurse implements the identified plan with coordination of care and health teaching and health promotion?”
Implementation
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which standard of practice is described as: “The registered nurse evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.”
Evaluation
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
The first official nursing code of ethics was adopted in ____ by ____. Described in nine provisions:
1950 by the American Nurses Association (ANA)
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
How many provisions does the ANA describe the nursing code of ethics?
9
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person. Expanded guides elaborate each provision such as”
Provision 1
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population.”
Provision 2
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient.”
Provision 3
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care.”
Provision 4
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “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.”
Provision 5
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “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 health care.”
Provision 6
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy.”
Provision 7
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to promote human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities.”
Provision 8
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
Which provision is “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.”
Provision 9
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing as a Profession)
What is described as the “essential element of professional nursing, involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders, you are responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of nursing, includes dependent, independent, and interdependent nursing”
Autonomy
(Potter1)
Nursing ______ is essential for developing trusting relationships with patients and coworkers. It involves accepting responsibility for actions and omissions, as well as legal, ethical, and professional implications.
Accountability
(Sherpath Lesson: Nursing and Nursing Practice)
Professionals have_______ in their decision making and practice. Professions are self-regulating, and they develop their own policies and procedures. It involves independent nursing actions in the care of patients. As a member of the nursing profession, each nurse has the ability to decide on how his or her individual nursing practice will be implemented.
autonomy
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
In situations in which nurse professionals employ________, nurses and patients alike view this action as the “last line of defense” on behalf of the patient. This normative conception of the nurse as patient advocate is an example of a “signature image” of professional identity among nursing and other professions.
advocacy
(Giddens37)
Benner’s Level of Proficiency has how many levels and what are they?
Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath)
Student nurses progress from _____ to ____ during nursing school
Novice to advanced beginner
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
The student nurse attains the competent level within ____ to ___ years of work experience.
2 to 3
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
_____ is a sense of oneself, and in relation to others, that is influenced by characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse.
Professional identity
(Giddens37)
Begins in training. Developed through real/simulated experiences, reflection, and role modeling by prof. colleagues. “__________/______” terms replacing “professional role/professionalism.” There is a need to internalize a value system of the profession. Every new identity destroys the prior, this sucks.
Professional identify/formation
(Giddens37)
Professionalism meets cerrtain criteria such as:
Altruism, Body of Knowledge and Research, Accountability, Higher Education, Licensure, Autonomy, Code of Ethics, Diversity, and Professional Organization
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
A profession provides services needed by society.______ is public service over personal gain. Nurses recognize nursing as their life work and focus on service to their patients, families, and the community.
Altruism
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
What criteria for the profession is described as “A profession develops, evaluates, and uses theory as a basis for practice. To advance knowledge in their field, professionals publish and communicate their knowledge. Nursing has a well-defined, specific, and unique body of theoretical knowledge. Theory in nursing leads to defined skills, abilities, and norms that are enlarged by research.”
Body of Knowledge and Research
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
Nursing_______ is essential for developing trusting relationships with patients and coworkers. It involves accepting responsibility for actions and omissions, as well as legal, ethical, and professional implications.
Accountability
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
A profession has clearly defined educational requirements for entry into practice. Nurses must have a diploma, an associate’s degree, or a bachelor’s degree in nursing to be eligible to take the NCLEX-RN examination. _________ offers nurses greater professional opportunities.
Higher education
(Nursing as a Profession Sherpath Lesson)
