Nursing As A Profession Flashcards
ANA Standards of Nursing Practice
- Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Outcomes Identification
- Planning
- Implementation
5a. Coordination of Care - Evaluation
A statement of the ethical values, responsibilities, and professional accountabilities of nurses and nursing students that defines and guides ethical nursing practice within the different roles nurses assume.
THE ICN Code of Ethics
Healthcare delivery system PPSTRC
- Primary care (health promotion) prenatal and well baby care, Nutrition counseling
- Preventive Care
Blood pressure and immunizations - Secondary Acute Care
Acute medical-surgical care and Emergency care - Tertiary Care
Intensive care, Subacute care - Restorative Care
Cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation. Orthopedic rehabilitation. - Continuing Care
Assisted living and palliative care
From Novice to Expert
Patricia Benner
An international code of ethics for nurses was first adopted by the International Council of Nurses in ___
1953
During this time, beliefs about the cause of disease was embedded in superstition and magic. Treatment often involved magical cues.
Ancient History
Father of Medicine, Made a major advance in medicine by rejecting the belief that diseases had supernatural causes.
Hippocrates
Religion has a great role in the development of
nursing during this time.
Early Christian Era
Designated to perform services for the sick
Deacons and deaconess
Most noted deaconess in nursing history
Phoebe
Established the first general hospital in Rome about 380 AD
Fabiola
Poverty was a critical problem.
Society faced epidemics of leprosy, typhus, and
bubonic plague.
The Middle Ages
They resulted in the establishment of military nursing and the recruitment of men into nursing.
Crusaders
- Revival of learning spurred the advance of medicine
- lack of effective sanitation and increasing poverty resulted in serious healthcare problems
The renaissance
- Dispersion of religious orders had been the primary source of healthcare, resulting in a serious deterioration in hospital conditions and nursing care.
- Women viewed as subordinates to men, expected to remain at home caring for children; this decreased the number of women practicing nursing.
The Reformation
-Inadequacy of care given to soldiers that led to public outcry in Great Britain.
-Florence Nightingale.
- Asked by Sir Sidney Herbert of the British War Department to recruit a contingent of female nurses to provide care to the sick and injured in the Crimea
Crimean War (1854)
Moses of her people; nursed the sick and suffering of her own race
Harriett Tubman