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Nursing and the Healthcare Environment Flashcards

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The collection of specific skills performing specific rendered tasks

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Nursing as a Profession

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The professional practice including knowledge from social and behavioral sciences, biological and physiological sciences, and nursing theories

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Scope and Standards of Practice

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Contains authoritative statements of duties for all registered nurses

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Standards of Professional Nursing Practice

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Describes a competent level of behavior in the professional nursing role

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Standards of Professional Performance

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Bears a complete statement of philosophical ideas

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Code of Ethics

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The nurse providing care and comfort for patients in all subjected health care settings

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Professional Responsibilities and Roles

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Initiates independent nursing interventions mediated / Legalizes profession for the type of quality and subjected nursing care

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Autonomy and Accountability

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Maintains and regains health alongside managing diseases and symptoms

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Caregiver

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Protects the human and legal rights

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Advocate

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Supposes teaching of knowledge, skills, and purposive way to make an informed decision

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Educator

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Centralizes the patient-nurse relationship

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Communicator

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Helps establishment of a collaborative-patient structured nursing environment

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Manager

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The innovations in healthcare itself

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Career Development

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Roles of a Professional Nurse

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Care Provider
Communicator / Helper
Teacher
Counselor
Client Advocate
Leader
Change Agent
Manager
Researcher

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Manages to direct hands-on patient care

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Clinician

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Most independently functioning nurse

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Advanced Patient Registered Nurses

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Has a master’s degree in nursing and expert clinician in a specialized area of practice

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Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Has a master’s degree in nursing and entail health education

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Nurse Practitioner

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Has a master’s degree in nursing and education in midwifery

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Certified Nurse-Midwife

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Has an advanced education from an accredited nurse anesthesia program

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Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

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Works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments

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Nurse Educator

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Works for management of the nursing staff in a health care agency

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Nurse Administrator

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Works fundamentally towards performing evidence-based practice and supposed research to improve nursing care’s further scope

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Nurse Researcher

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General Practicum of a Nurse

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Institutional Nursing
Public Health Nursing / Community Health Nursing
Occupational Health Nursing / Industrial Nursing
Nursing Education
Military Nursing
School Health Nursing
Clinical Nursing
Nursing Practice

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The active determination of best and supplemental practices in variety of areas in nursing care

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Historical Influences

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Mother of Nursing

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Florence Nightingale

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Stimulated growth of nursing in United States

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Civil War to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

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Evolved body of nursing knowledge and practice

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Twentieth Century

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Structured professional challenges

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Twenty-First Century

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Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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Religion

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Early Christian Age

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Poverty

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Middle Age

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Enlightenment

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Renaissance

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Misogyny and Patriarchy

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Reformation

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The significant amount of formal education is necessary to become a professional RN

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Professional Registered Nurse Education

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Associate or bachelor’s degree

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Prelicensure

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Master’s or doctoral degree

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Graduate Education

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Application of research findings to clinical nursing

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Doctoral Preparation

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Decision-making and technological expertise

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Continuing and In-Service Education

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The opportunity of a nurse to practice in a variety of nursing care settings.

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Nursing Practice

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Regulates the scope of nursing practice for the state and protects public health, safety, and welfare

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Nurse Practice Arts

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Requires passing of NCLEX-RN / Requires work experience

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Licensure and Certification

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43
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The six levels of care provided

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Traditional Level of Health Care

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The complete quality of health care found in the United States

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Integrated Health Care Delivery

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Complemented health outcomes for an entire population

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Primary and Preventive Health Care Services

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Provided specialist or agency on referral by a primary health care provider / Specialized consultative care, usually provided on referral by secondary medical personnel

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Secondary and Tertiary Care

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Intends provision of comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare

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Hospitals

48
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Provides intensive medical and nursing care

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Intensive Care

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Provides mental health care

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Mental Health Facilities

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Lacking serious health care points

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Rural Hospitals

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Interprofessional process developing a plan for care sustained

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Discharge Planning

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Provides physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and social services

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Restorative Care

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Provision of medically related professional and paraprofessional services and equipment to clients

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Home Care

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Physical care, occupational care, speech therapy, and social services

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Rehabilitation

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Provides intermediate medical, nursing, or custodial care

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Extended Care Facilities

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Provides variety of health, personal, and social services

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Continuing Care

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Provides 24-hour intermediate and custodial care

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Nursing Centers or Facilities

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Fastest-growing industries

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Assisted Living

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Provides short-term relief

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Respite Care

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Provides holistic, patient, and family-centered care approach to those who live alone

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Adult Day Care Centers

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Provides holistic, patient, and family-centered care approach to life-threatened individuals

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Palliative and Hospice Care

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The
focus on health promotion, disease prevention, and restorative care

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Community-Based Health Care

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The nursing practice in a subjected community

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Community-Oriented Nursing

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Health care of individuals, families, and groups within their communities

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Community Health

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Needs of a population or a collection of individuals having one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common

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Public Health Nursing

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Nursing practice involved in building a variety of connections with the community

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Nursing Practice in Community Health

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The explanation of an event by defining ideas or concepts

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Theory

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The Nightingale era

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Evolution of Nursing Theory

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From 1900s to 1940s

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Curriculum Era

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From 1950s to 1970s

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Research Era

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From 1980s to 1990s

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Theory Era

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21st Century

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Theory Utilization Era

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Founder of Modern Nursing / Nurse and Patient’s environment

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Nightingale’s Environmental Theory

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Mother of Psychiatric Nursing
/ Nurse and Patient’s interpersonal relations

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Peplau’s Interpersonal Theory

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Used in nursing practice

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Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

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A prediction of nursing’s intended future

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Leininger’s Culture Care Theory

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The age of accountability

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Nursing Practice Era

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The supposed process of creating new knowledge

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Scientific Method

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Simply and precisely measure and quantify a variable / Experimental Research, Nonexperimental Research, and Surveys

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Quantitative Research

80
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Strictly categorize perceptions of illness

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Qualitative Research

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The thorough improvement of nursing based on Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory

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Development of Nursing

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The patient’s environment including the physical and psychosocial factors

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Environmental Safety

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Oxygenation needs

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Oxygen

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Healthy food

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Nutrition

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Frequent extremes

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Temperature

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Common Environmental Hazards

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Motor Vehicle Accidents
Poison
Falls
Fire
Disasters

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Injuries

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Infant, Toddler, and Preschooler

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Dependent

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School-Age Child

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Independent

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Adolescent

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Threats

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Adult

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Some risk factors

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Older Adult

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Individuals

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Workplace Culture
Lifestyle
Impaired Mobility
Sensory, Cognitive, or Communication Impairment
Economic Resources
Lack of Safety Awareness

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Health Care Agencies

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Procedure-Related Accidents
Equipment-Related Accidents
Chemical Exposure
Falls
Workplace Safety

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The infection practices applied by nurses to patients

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Standard Precaution

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Bacteria / Viruses / Fungi / Protozoa

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Infectious Agent

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Food / Oxygen / Water / Temperature / pH / Light

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Reservoir

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Skin and Mucous Membrane / Respiratory Tract / Urinary Tract / Gastrointestinal Tract / Reproductive Tract / Blood

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Portal of Exit

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Direct / Indirect / Droplet / Airborne / Vehicles / Vector

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Modes of Transmission

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Same routes intended

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Portal of Entry

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Degree of pathogens

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Susceptible Host

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Types of Isolation

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Reverse Isolation
Quarantine

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Transmission Based Precaution

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Contact Precaution
Droplet Precaution
Airborne Precaution
Standard Precaution

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Types of Waste

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Infectious Waste
Pathological Waste
Chemical Waste
Cytotoxic Waste
Pharmaceutical Waste
Radioactive Waste
General Waste

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Susceptibility

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Age

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Pathways

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Sex

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Conditions

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Nutritional Status

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General Adaptation

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Stress

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Risks Across

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Disease Process

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