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NURS165-Chapter 1 & 2 Flashcards

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Where does nursing come from in early history?

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  • Theory of animism
  • Ancient Greek Civilization
  • Early Christian Period
  • 16th, 19th, & 20th centuries
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What is the theory of animism?

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Bad spirits brought bad health, good spirits brought good health

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What are the historical elements of nursing in the 19th & 20th centuries?

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  • Florence Nightingale
  • Hospital Schools
  • Female nurses under male hospital admin/physicians
  • WWII
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Who was Florence Nightingale?

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The founder of modern nursing and the first training schools for nurses at London’s St. Thomas Hospital

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What is the ICN definition of nursing?

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To promote health, a safe environment, prevent illness, advocacy, research, shape health policy, educate

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What is the ANA definition of nursing?

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Patient is the focus of all definitions with a social policy statement and nursing aims

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What are the primary and secondary/tertiary preventions?

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Primary- Preventing Illness
Secondary/tertiary- restoring health

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What is facilitating coping with disability and death?

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Maximizing a patients strengths/potentials (patient teaching/refer community support)
Providing end of life care (hospice)

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What are the competencies related to QSEN?

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  • Patient Centered Care
  • Teamwork
  • Quality improvement
  • Safety
  • EBP
  • Informatics
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What are the different roles that a nurse must play?

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Communicator, Teacher, Counselor, Leader, Researcher, Advocate, Collaborator

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What are the disciplines a nurse must have?

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  • Specific/unique knowledge
  • Service oriented
  • Holds professional authority
  • Ethic codes
  • Organization standard
  • Continued research
  • Autonomy/self-regulation
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What are the different levels of nursing education?

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  • Practical/vocational nursing
  • Registered nursing
  • Graduate in nursing
  • Continuing education
  • In service education
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What are the degrees to become a registered nurse?

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  • Diploma in nursing
  • Associate degree
  • Baccalaureate degree
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What are the different professional nursing organizations?

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International Nursing Organization (ICN)

National
- American nursing association (ANA)
- National league for nurses (NLN)
- American association of colleges of nursing (AACN)
- American academy of nursing (AAN)
- National student nurses association (NSNA)

Specialty Practice organizations

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What are nurse practice acts?

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  • Define a legal scope
  • Create a state board to enforce rules/regulations
  • Define important terms/activities/legal requirements/titles
  • Establish criteria for education and licensure
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What are the different guidelines for nursing practice?

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  • Standards of nursing practice
  • Nurse practice acts/licensure
  • Code of ethics/professional values
  • Nursing process/clinical judgement model
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What are the self-care duties of a nurse?

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  • Maintain promotion of health, safety, and growth with the patient
  • ANA- focus on creating and maintaining balances
  • Resilience
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Why and how was theory put into play?

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Issues addressed by nurses through sources of knowledge and historical influences

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What is a theory?

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A group of concepts that describe a pattern of reality that can be tested, changed, or used to guide research

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What are concepts?

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Abstract impressions that describe objects, properties, and events

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What is nursing theory?

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Describes nursing and separates it from other disciplines/activities

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What are the two principal methods that nursing theory is from?

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Deductive and Inductive reasoning

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What is general systems theory?

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Used for universal application to break whole things and see how they work in systems

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What is adaptation theory?

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Adjusting living things to other living things and environments

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What is developmental theory?
Growth and development from conception to death
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What are the four common concepts in nursing theories
- Patient - Environment - Health - Nursing
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What is nursing research?
Systematic investigation of phenomena in patient care that come from clinical observations
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What forms appropriate nursing research?
- Logical conceptual framework - Based on related findings published in peer-reviewed journals - Carefully designed and applicable
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What are the goals of nursing research?
- Improve people clinical care - Study people and nursing process (education, policy development, ethics, nursing history) - Develop greater autonomy/strength - Provide EBP's
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What is quantitative nursing research?
Concepts of basic and applied research
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What is qualitative nursing research?
Gain insight on meanings and is based on differing/changing patient reality
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What is basic research?
Generate and refine theory - not directly useful in practice
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What is applied research?
Directly influence/improve clinical practice
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What are some steps in the research process?
- Identify researchable problem - Review literature - Form hypothesis - Design and implement study - Draw conclusions on findings - Discussion/implications - Dissemination
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What type of literature should be used?
Peer-reviewed, academic journals published within the past 5yrs
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What must a researcher have when conducting an experiment?
A hypothesis and an educated speculation on the outcome
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What are experimental designs?
The researcher manipulates/influences/changes participants in some way - Quantitative - Difficult with endangering people
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What are non-experimental designs?
Exploring to increase knowledge without manipulation -Quantitative or qualitative - ie. surveys
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What is implementation?
Study is conducted
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What is data collection?
Data is collected with those familiar with the study
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What is data analysis?
Analyzing data to determine is the study went well and create an analysis plan
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What are discussion/clinical implications?
Suggest things that should be done in the future based on the study findings
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What is dissemination?
Publication of the findings
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What is evidence based practice?
- Best research evidence - Clinical expertise - Patient Values and preferences
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What are the steps in implementing EBP's?
- Form burning clinical questions - Search and collect best evidence - Appraise evidence - Integrate with clinical expertise - Evaluate outcomes - Disseminate outcomes
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What is quality improvement?
Continuous health improving actions - Affect patient access - Evidence based care - Support patient engagement - Care coordination - Cultural competence/patient-centered communication
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What are the sources that research ideas come from?
- Clinical practice - Literature - Theory

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