Professional Behaviors Flashcards

1
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A state of being obligated, emotionally impelled.

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Commitment

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2
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Strength of person’s relationship to - sense of belonging to an organization.

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Organizational commitment

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3
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4 Factors of Professional Commitment

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1- Belief - accept profession’s code, role, goals, values…
2- Willingness to exert personal effort for profession
3- Strong desire to maintain membership in profession
4- Pattern of behaviors congruent w/ nurses professional code of ethics.

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4
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Types of Commitment (3)

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  • Continuance
  • Affective
  • Normative
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5
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Affective Commitment

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-Identifies with and involves themselves with profession

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6
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Normative Commitment

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Feelings of obligation to continue in profession.

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7
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Continuance Commitment

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  • Aware of costs associated with leaving profession.

- Develops when consequences of leaving profession are seen as reasons to stay.

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8
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5 Stages of Commitment

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1- Exploratory
2- Testing
3- Passionate
4- Quiet & Bored
5- Integrated
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9
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Stage where person explores positive aspects of profession. Excited.

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(1st) Exploratory Stage

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10
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Stage where person discovers negative aspects of profession.
-Starts assessing willingness & ability to deal with negative elements.

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(2nd) Testing

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11
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Stage of commitment which begins as person synthesizes both positive & negative elements from first two stages.

  • Willing to commit to profession & contribute to well-being.
  • Students who become involved.
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(3rd) Passionate

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12
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Stage where person settles into humdrum routine - become more comfortable.

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(4th) Quiet & Bored

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13
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Stage where person integrates both positive & negative elements of profession into more flexible, complex & enduring form of commitment.
-Act on commitment as matter of habit.

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(5th/Final) Integrated

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14
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Inconsistency between academic world and the world of work.

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Reality Shock

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15
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When does reality shock occur.

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When novice nurses realize that they are not prepared for the work environment.

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16
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4 Phases of Reality shock:

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  • Honeymoon
  • Shock or rejection
  • Recovery
  • Resolution
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17
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Phase that often occurs during orientation when everything in work world is as the graduate imagines.

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Honeymoon Phase

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18
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Phase where new nurse encounters:

  • conflict, differing way of performing skills, lack of security of an expert as a resource.
  • nurse may feel fear, react by forming shell.
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Shock (rejection) phase

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19
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Phase where novice nurse begins to understand the culture, experiences less anxiety… healing begins

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Recovery Phase

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20
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Phase where nurse adjusts to new environment, work expectations are easily met…

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Resolution Phase

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21
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Native
Runaway
Rutter
Burned Out
Compassion fatigue
Loner
New nurse on block
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Inappropriate approaches to dealing with shock phase:

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22
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Adopts ways of least resistance and mimics other nurses

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Native

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23
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Real world is too difficult, leaves profession or returns to school w/ goal to teach nursing.

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Runaway

24
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Considers nursing just a job - shows up for the paycheck.

On the job retirees

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Rutter

25
Q

Bottles conflict, fatigued, depressed, angry
Looks chronically constipated.
More intelligent hard workers have this more often.

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Burned out

26
Q

decline in compassion from exposure to events of traumatized patients.

  • can become biased & unfriendly
  • make inappropriate comments.
A

Compassion fatigue

27
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adopts attitude to “just do job & keep mouth shut”.

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Loner

28
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Changes jobs frequently & is always the new nurse.

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new nurse on block.

29
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How many stages in from novice to expert

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5

30
Q

Stage ?

  • Nurses with few clinical experiences
  • Skills are learned by rote
  • Occurs when nursing education is completed
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Stage 1

31
Q

Stage ?

  • Able to perform adequately
  • Make some judgement calls on basis of experience
  • occurs on entry to workforce
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Stage 2

32
Q

Stage ?

  • Competent nurses
  • Able to foresee long-range goals
  • Mastering skills
A

Stage 3

33
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Stage ?

  • Proficient nurses
  • Views situations as whole rather than parts
  • Develop effective solutions
A

Stage 4

34
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Stage ?

  • Expert nurses
  • Intuition & decision making are instantaneous
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Stage 5

35
Q

Special needs of novice nurses:

__________: lack of comfort w/ interpersonal skills

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Interpersonal skills

36
Q

Special needs of novice nurses:

______: Doubt in ability to perform skills without supervision.

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Clinical skills

37
Q

Special needs of novice nurses:

_____________: feeling disorganized.

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Organization skills

38
Q

Special needs of novice nurses:

________________: uncertainty w/ delegation

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delegation skills

39
Q

5 Strategies to Ease Transition

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1- Mentors & Role Models
2- Preceptorships
3- Self-Mentoring
4- Residency Programs
5- Preprofessional and professional organizations
40
Q

Assessing clients, planning therapeutic interventions, coordinating & evaluating care.

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Care provider

41
Q

Teaching health promotion and health maintenance.

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Educator and counselor

42
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Promoting what is best for the client; protecting the client’s rights.

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Advocate

43
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Identifying client & health care delivery problems.
Assess motivation & capacity to change
-leading change process

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Change agent

44
Q

Improve health status and potential of individuals, families and communitites.

  • manage multiple resource in health facility
  • Educate citizens & legislators
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Leader and manager

45
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Leading or participating in nursing research

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Researcher

46
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  • Coordinate practice relationships among several health care disciplines.
  • use successful health care team models.
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Coordinator of interprofessional team

47
Q

2 Hospital Opportunities for Nurses

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  • Infection Control Nurse

- Quality Management Nurse

48
Q

Nontraditional Roles in Nursing

  • role of the community health nurse in helping patients remain in homes.
  • Can administer chemo, radiography, telemetry, uterine monitoring, dobutamine.
A

Home Care Nurse

49
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Nontraditional Roles in Nursing

  • minimum of masters degree
  • competent in clinical practice
  • Expectation of teaching, scholarship, service to community
A

Nurse Educator

50
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Nontraditional Roles in Nursing

  • Masters degree generalist
  • oversees care of distinct group of patients in any setting
  • provides direct pt. care in complex situations
  • evaluates pt. outcomes
  • puts EB into practice
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Clinical Nurse Leader

51
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Nontraditional Roles in Nursing

  • Assess & manage nursing & medical problems.
  • Emphasis on prevention & health promotion.
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Advanced Practice Nursing (APN)

52
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APN

-possess clinical expertise in defined area of nursing practice

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clinical nurse specialist

53
Q

APN

-Provides anesthesia and anesthesia-related care on request, assignment or by referral.

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Certified registered nurse anesthetist

54
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APN

-manages womens health care, focus on pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum

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Certified nurse-midwife

55
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-Unites the leadership perspective or professional nursing w/ various aspects of business and health administration.

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Nurse Administrator / Executive

56
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APN

  • Expert in advanced nursing practice who has an earned clinically focused doctorate in nursing.
  • variety of specialty areas
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Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)