Professional Nursing Flashcards
What is Florence Nightingale known for
Asepsis
What is Dorothea Dix known for?
Army Nurse Corps
What is Clara Barton known for?
Red Cross
Why is the year 1900 important?
American Journal of Nursing: evidence based practice in nursing
What are the four types of APRN?
NP
CRNA
Nurse Midwife
Nurse Educator
What are the four doctoral degrees in nursing?
DNP, PhD, EdD, DNS
What determines scope of practice?
State Board of Nursing develops Nurse Practice Acts
Which organization determines the Standards of Professional Practice?
ANA
Novice to expert: novice
follows rules (usually first year of nursing)
Novice to expert: advanced beginner
guided by prior experience
Novice to expert: competent
consciously and deliberately plans nursing goals
Novice to expert: proficient
perceives situation as a whole
Novice to expert: expert
has intuitive grasp of the situation and zeroes in on the problem
What are six roles of a nurse?
caregiver advocate educator decision-maker manager and coordinator communicator