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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

21
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What is nursing theory?

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Describes nursing and separates it from other disciplines/activities

22
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What are the two principal methods that nursing theory is from?

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Deductive and Inductive reasoning

23
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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

24
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What is adaptation theory?

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Adjusting living things to other living things and environments

25
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What is developmental theory?

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Growth and development from conception to death

26
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What are the four common concepts in nursing theories

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  • Patient
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Nursing
27
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What is nursing research?

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Systematic investigation of phenomena in patient care that come from clinical observations

28
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What forms appropriate nursing research?

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  • Logical conceptual framework
  • Based on related findings published in peer-reviewed journals
  • Carefully designed and applicable
29
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What are the goals of nursing research?

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  • 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?

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Concepts of basic and applied research

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What is qualitative nursing research?

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Gain insight on meanings and is based on differing/changing patient reality

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What is basic research?

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Generate and refine theory - not directly useful in practice

33
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What is applied research?

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Directly influence/improve clinical practice

34
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What are some steps in the research process?

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  • 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?

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Peer-reviewed, academic journals published within the past 5yrs

36
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What must a researcher have when conducting an experiment?

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A hypothesis and an educated speculation on the outcome

37
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What are experimental designs?

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The researcher manipulates/influences/changes participants in some way
- Quantitative
- Difficult with endangering people

38
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What are non-experimental designs?

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Exploring to increase knowledge without manipulation
-Quantitative or qualitative
- ie. surveys

39
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What is implementation?

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Study is conducted

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What is data collection?

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Data is collected with those familiar with the study

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What is data analysis?

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Analyzing data to determine is the study went well and create an analysis plan

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What are discussion/clinical implications?

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Suggest things that should be done in the future based on the study findings

43
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What is dissemination?

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Publication of the findings

44
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What is evidence based practice?

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  • Best research evidence
  • Clinical expertise
  • Patient Values and preferences
45
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What are the steps in implementing EBP’s?

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  • 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?

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Continuous health improving actions
- Affect patient access
- Evidence based care
- Support patient engagement
- Care coordination
- Cultural competence/patient-centered communication

47
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What are the sources that research ideas come from?

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  • Clinical practice
  • Literature
  • Theory

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