nursing hx Flashcards
One of the founders of ANA and ANJ
Isabel Hampton Robb
Lilian Wald and Mary Brewster
Autonomous, helped poor in NY
First black RN
Mary Mahoney
Founder of American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Harriet Tubman
Helped free 300 slaves, Underground Railroad movement
First professor of nursing
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Center for ethics and human rights
By ANA in 1990
QSEN competences
Patient centered care, teamwork / collaboration, EVP, quality improvement, safety, informatics
National patient safety goals
IID patients correctly, improve staff communication, use meds safely, reduce health care infections, check meds, ID patients at risk
Nurse practice acts -statutory law
Legal boundaries of practice in a state
ADA
Federal statue
Regulatory or administrative law
Decisions by admin bodies - eg state board of nursing rules and regulations
Common law
Based on cases- informed consent, negligence, malpractice, tx refusal
Statutory law types
Civil and criminal
Malpractice -4 elements
Duty, breach, causation, harm