Session 1: Nursing Today Flashcards
What are the 3 things that make nursing an ‘art’?
- Compassion
- Caring
- Respect
Nursing care is based on a body of knowledge that is continually changing with new innovations and discoveries. Requires knowledge and practice standards with an insightful and compassionate approach
Nursing as a Science
Involved in defining scope and standards.
After becoming licensed, this association is responsible for obtaining additional specialized certifications.
American Nurses Association
promotion of health, patient advocacy, and safety in a patient-centered environment describes which TWO nursing associations?
1) ANA
2) ICN
What is allowed/safe to do with one’s training/education
Scope
Where is the scope of practice found?
Board of Nursing
Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcomes Identification, Planning, Implementation (coordination of care, health teaching, and health promotion), and Evaluation
ANA Standards of Nursing Practice
Ethics, Culturally Congruent Care, Communication, Collaboration, Leadership, Education, EBP & Research, Quality of Practice, Professional Practice Evaluation, Resources Utilization, Environmental Health
Standards of Professional Performance
What is the goal of the BON?
Protect the public
Who oversees NPAs and Regulate the scope of nursing to protect the public
State Board of Nursing
Who defines the Nurse Practice Acts?
ANA
Who regulates the Nurse Practice Acts?
Board of Nursing
Philosophical ideals of right and wrong
Ethics
Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements
Guide book for nurses
Who was aka “the lady with the lamp”?
Florence Nightengale
- first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration
- Studied and implemented ways to improve battlefield sanitation
- Considered the first practicing nurse epidemiologist
- Established the first organized program for training nurses in London
Florence Nightingale
- Initiative in response to reports about safety and quality patient care
- Includes several competencies
- Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
QSEN Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
- Patient Centered Care
- Team work and collaboration
- Evidence based practice
- Quality Improvement
- Safety
- Informatics
QSEN competencies
Involve family and friends in care. Elicit patient values and preferences. Provide care with respect for diversity.
Patient Centered Care
Recognize the contribution of other health care team members and the patient’s family members. Discuss effective strategies for communicating and resolving conflict Design methods to support effective teamwork.
Specific roles + overlapping roles
Teamwork and Collaboration
Demonstrate knowledge based on scientific methods. Appreciate strengths and weaknesses of scientific bases for practice. Appreciate the importance of reading relevant nursing journals and considering the contents with practice.
Ex. Reviewing articles for the most up to date information
Evidence Based Practice
Use tools such as flow charts and diagrams to make process of care explicit. Appreciate how unwanted variation in outcomes affects care. Identify gaps between local and best practices.
Quality Improvement
Examine human factors and basic safety design principles and commonly used unsafe practices. Value own role in preventing errors.
Ex. Putting side rails up
Safety
Navigate an electronic health record. Protect confidentiality of protected health information in electronic health records
Ex. Use of technology (electronic charting, barcodes, etc.)
Informatics
Advances excellence in nursing education; sets
standards for excellence and innovation in nursing
education
PRE-LICENSURE
National League for Nursing (NLN)
Improves standards of health and availability of health care, promotes professional development and high standards for nursing and economic welfare for nurses-strong lobbyist
POST-LICENSURE
SPECIALITY CERTIFICATIONS
American Nurse Association (ANA)
▪ Accreditation is a voluntary, self-regulatory process
▪ Non-governmental
▪ Accreditation assists in the further improvement of the institutions
▪ An option for any program type
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
▪ Enables student eligibility for funding support from federal and state agencies
▪ Strengthens educational quality
▪ Is a gateway to licensure, certification and higher education
▪ Assists employers seeking graduates who are competent nurses
▪ Identifies areas needing development
▪ Improves student retention and success
▪ Fosters ongoing self-examination
Benefits of Accreditation
