Test 1 Flashcards
American nurses Association
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. Their purpose is to improve standards of health and the availability of healthcare, to foster high standards for nursing and to promote the professional development and general economic welfare of nurses. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. They defined nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities. Prevention of illness and injury. Alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response. And advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, in populations.
Clinical nurse specialist
An APRN (advanced practice nurse) Who is an expert in a specialized area of practice, carries out direct client care, consultation, teaching clients, families, and staff, and conducting research.
Nurse practitioner
An APRN Who provides healthcare to a group of patients, usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community based setting. They provide care for patients with complex problems and a more holistic approach than physicians. They are able to establish a collaborative provider patient relationship. The major categories are acute care, adult, family, pediatric, women’s, psychiatric mental health, in geriatric. They have the knowledge and skills necessary to detect in manage self-limitingacute and chronic stable medical conditions.
Nurse educator
Work primarily in schools of nursing, staff development Department of health care agencies, and patient education departments. They need experience in clinical practice to provide them with practical skills and theoretical knowledge.
Nurse administrator
Manages patient’s healthcare in the delivery of specific nursing services within a healthcare agency. They begin with positions such as the assistant nurse manager. They usually require at least a bachelorette degree in nursing. They need to be skilled in business and management and understand all aspects of nursing and patient care functions include budgeting, staffing, strategic planning of programs and services, employee in evaluation, and employee development.
Nurse researcher
Investigates problems to improve nursing care and further defined and expand the scope of nursing practice. They often work in an academic Setting, hospital, or independent professional or community service agency. Requirement is a Docktor agree with at least a masters degree.
National league for nursing
Advances excellence in nursing education to prepare nurses to meet the needs of diverse population in a changing healthcare environment. They set standards for excellence and innovation in nursing education.
Nurse practice act
Statutes enacted by the legislator of any of the states or the appropriate officers of the districts or possessions that describe and define the scope of nursing practice.
Nurse anesthetist
A nurse who completes a course of study in anesthesia school, carries out preoperative visit and assessments, and ministers and monitors anesthesia during surgery, evaluates post operative status of clients.
Licensed practical nurse or licensed vocational nurse
Trained in basic nursing skills and in the provision of direct patient care
Nursing theory
A conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that describes, explain, predict or prescribes nursing care. Series constitute much of the knowledge of a discipline. Syrian scientific inquiry are vital links to another, providing guidelines for decision-making, problem-solving, and nursing interventions.
Nursing
is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems. The scope of nursing is broad. From a nursing diagnosis the nurse create a patient centered plan of care for each of the patient’s health problems.
Physician assistant
Physician assistants, also known as PAs, practice medicine on a team under the supervision of physicians and surgeons. They are formally educated to examine patients, diagnose injuries and illnesses, and provide treatment.
Pharmacist
healthcare professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use
Professional organization
A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) is usually a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession and the public interest.
Continuing education
is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs
Independent nursing actions
When nurses care for patients they follow the nursing process. This includes making a plan and setting goals for the patient. Nursing interventions are the actual treatments and actions that are performed to help the patient to reach the goals that are set for them. The nurse uses his or her knowledge, experience and critical thinking skills to decide which interventions will help the patient the most.
Dependent nursing actions
Actions prescribed by physician or by operational protocol in a health care facility; physician-initiated interventions carried out by nurses for patient care.
In service education
An inservice program is a professional training or staff development effort, where professionals are trained and discuss their work with others in their peer group. It is a key component of continuing medical education for physicians, pharmacists, and other medical professionals.
Interdependent nursing actions
pertaining to actions or activities that require one individual to work with another. Interdependent nursing actions are those that are performed by the nurse after mutual determination by the nurse and the physician. They also include activities directed by the physician but requiring nursing judgment to perform.
Social worker
Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. One group of social workers, clinical social workers, also diagnose and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional issues
Lavinia Dock
1858-1956 Lavinia Lloyd Dock (February 26, 1858 – April 17, 1956)[1] was a nurse, feminist, author, pioneer in nursing education and social activist.[2] Dock was an assistant superintendent at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing under Isabel Hampton Robb. With Robb and Mary Adelaide Nutting, she helped to found the organization that would become the National League for Nursing. Dock was a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing and she authored several books, including (with M. Adelaide Nutting as co-author) a four-volume history of nursing and what was for many years a standard nurse’s manual of drugs.[3] She campaigned for women’s rights for many years.
Isabell Hampton Robb
1860-1910 Isabel Adams Hampton Robb (1860–1910) was an American nurse theorist, author, nursing school administrator and early leader. Hampton was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, wrote several influential textbooks, and helped to found the organizations that became known as the National League for Nursing, the International Council of Nurses, and the American Nurses Association. Hampton also played a large role in advancing the social status of nursing through her work in developing a curriculum of more advanced training during her time at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
Florence Nightingale
1820-1910 Established the first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration. She saw the role of nursing as having charge of somebody’s house based on the knowledge of how to put the body in such a state to be free of disease or to recover from disease. She developed the first organize program for training nurses, the Nightingale training school for nurses at Saint Thomas’ hospital in London. She was the first practicing nurse epidemiologist. She volunteered during the Crimean war in 1853. Because of her the mortality rate reduced from 42.7% to 2.2% in six months.
Clara Barton
Founded the Red Cross
Dorothea Lynde Dix
1802-1887 Influence nursing during the Civil War. As a superintendent of the female nurses of the Union Army, she organize hospitals, appointed nurses, and oversaw and regulated supplies to the troops.
Lillian Wald
1867-1940 with Mary Brewster opens the Henry Street settlement, which focused on the health needs of poor people who lived in tenants in New York City. It required quick and innovative problem solving and critical thinking without the supervision or direction of a healthcare provider.
Mary Adelaide Nutting
1858-1948 was instrumental in the affiliation I’m nursing education with universities. She became the first professor of nursing at Columbia University teachers college in 1906. She thought nursing education needed increased financial support and suggested that university schools of nursing receive the money.
Roles and functions of nurses
Caregiver communicator teacher counselor leader researcher advocate rehabilitator
The seven basic elements of a profession
- Have a strong scientific base
- Have a strong service orientation
- Be the recognized authority by the professional group with the community sanction
- Have a code of ethics
- Have a professional organization that sets standards
- Conduct ongoing research
- Have autonomy
How is nursing a profession?
It’s practice involves specialized skills and application of knowledge. It is based on education that includes both theoretical and clinical components. It uphold standards set forth by professional organizations and follows a quart of attics. It carries out research defining the body of knowledge specific to atone practice. Nurses increasingly assume control and authority to direct and give care to clients, using the nursing process to identify the aspects of care that are unique to nursing.
International Council of nurses
The objectives of the ICN parallel those of the ANA promoting national associations of nurses, improving standards of nursing practice, seeking a higher status for nurses, and providing an international powerbase for nurses.
Quality and safety education for nurses QSEN
There initiative is to respond to reports about safety and quality patient care, they address the challenge to prepare nurses with the competencies needed to continuously improve the quality of care in their work environments.
National student nurses Association
Nursing students take part in this organization to consider issues of importance to nursing students such as crew development in preparation for licensing.
Informatics
Informatics is the science of computer information systems. As an academic field it involves the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems.
ANA standards of nursing practice
- Assess
- Diagnose
- Outcomes identification
- Planning
- Implementation
- coordinate
- health teach and promote
- consultation
- prescriptive authority and treatment - Evaluate
Significance of the nurse practice act
Regulate the scope of nursing practice and protect public health, safety, and welfare. This includes shielding the public from unqualified an unsafe nurses. Each state to find for itself the scope of nursing practice although most have similar NPAs
The purpose of in-service education programs
To increase the knowledge skills and competencies of nurses and other healthcare professionals employed by the institution. Often in service programs are focused on new technologies such as how to correctly use the newest safety syringes.
Purposes of continuing education
Update your knowledge about the latest research and practice development, helps you to specialize in a particular area of practice, and he’d use your new skills and techniques.
Swanson’s five caring processes
Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief
Caring behaviors
Providing presents, offering a caring touch, listening, knowing the patient, spiritual caring, relieving pain and suffering, and family care.
Caring
A universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another.
Watsons 10 carative factors
Forming a human-altruistic value system, instilling faith and hope, cultivating a sensitivity to oneself into others, developing a helping trusting human caring relationship, promoting and expressing positive and negative feelings, using creative problem-solving caring processes, promoting transpersonal teaching learning, providing for a supportive protective andor corrective mental physical societal and spiritual environment, meeting human needs, allowing for existential phenomenological spiritual forces.
