Test #1- lecture 1 Flashcards
Who is considered your patient?
individuals, families, and communities
What do health care advocacy groups recognize?
the importance of the role quality professional nursing has on the nations’ health care.
What are Benner’s stages of nursing proficiency?
Novice advanced beginner competent proficient expert
What is a novice nurse?
Completed through the course of the nurse’s education, a time of new experiences and performance of tasks.
What is an advanced beginner nurse?
A new nurse merging into professional practice.
What is the ANA definition of nursing?
Nursing is 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, and populations.
What does the ANA define the scope of nursing as?
guides nurses to make significant and visible contributions that improve the health and well-being of all individuals, communities, and populations
What does the nursing scope and standards of practice describe?
Who What Where When Why How
What is the Who in the ANA scope of practice?
Registered Nurses
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
Have been educated, titles and maintain active licensure to practice nursing.
What is the WHAT in ANA scope of practice?
The protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities
prevention of illness and injury
facilitation of healing
alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response
advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations
What is the WHERE in ANA scope of practice?
Wherever there is a patient in need of care.
What is the WHEN in ANA scope of practice?
Whenever there is a need for nursing knowledge, compassion, and expertise.
What is the WHY in ANA scope of practice?
The profession exists to achieve the most positive patient outcomes in keeping the nursing’s social contract and obligation to society.
What is the main focus of the ANA?
to protect and advance the scope of practice for nurses and to ensure that nurses practice in the full extent of their education and abelites to provide evidence-base care to patients.
What are the professional responsibilities and roles?
autonomy and accountability caregiver advocate educator communicator manager
What is autonomy?
An essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
What is accountability?
that you are responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of nursing care provided.
What is caregiver?
you help patients maintain and regain health and find their max level of independent function through the healing process.
What do a patient’s health care needs include?
emotional, spiritual, and social well-being
What is patient advocate?
you protect your patient’s human and legal rights and help patients assert those rights when needed.
How are you and educator?
can be formal or informal.
always use teaching methods that match your patient’s capabilities and needs, and incorporate other resources, such as the family, in teaching plans.
What is a communicator?
effectiveness is central to the nurse– patient relationships.
allows you to know your patients, including their strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
What is a manager?
you will establish an environment for collaborative patient-centered care to provide safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes.
What did Florence Nightingale do?
established 1st nursing philosophy base on health maintenance and restoration.
organized 1st school of nursing
1st practicing epidemiologist
Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
When did Nightingale organize the 1st school of nursing?
1860- Nightingale Training School for Nurses
Located at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London
How did Nightingale practice as an epidemiologist?
1st practicing one
used her keen mind and statistical analysis to show the connection between poor sanitation and diseases like cholera and dysentery
What was Nightingale known as?
Lady with the Lamp
From crossing the battlefields of the Crimean War with her lantern
What are the QSEN competencies?
patient-centered care Teamwork and collaboration evidence-based practice quality improvement safety informatics
What is preventative health care?
focuses on reducing and controlling risk factors for disease through activities such as occupational health programs.
What is primary health care?
Focuses on improved health outcomes.
What is secondary health care?
Provided by a specialist upon referral from PCP.
What is tertiary health care?
Specialized consultative care, usually provided on referral from secondary medical personnel.
What is restorative health care?
serves patients recovering from an acute or chronic illness/disability?
What is continuing health care?
for people who are disabled, functionally dependent, or suffering a terminal disease
What is discharge planning?
develops plan for continuing care
determines post-hospital destination
identifies patient needs
begins process while still hospitalized.
What happened during the curriculum era of nursing?
1900-1940s
nursing education expanded beyond basic anatomy and physiology courses to include courses in the social sciences, pharmacology, and nursing arts that addressed nursing actions, skills and procedures.
What happened during the research era?
1950-1970s
nurses became increasingly involved in conducting studies and sharing their findings.
What happened during the graduate education era?
1950-1970s
early versions of nursing theories were developed that offered more structure to nursing research
What happened during the theory era?
1980-1990s
significantly contributed to knowledge development.
Resulted in the publication of several nursing journals, the development of nursing conferences, and the offering of more doctoral programs in nursing.
What happened during the theory utilization era?
2000s-today
nurses strive to provided evidence-based practice, which stems from theory, research, and experience.
What is nursing knowledge?
Derived from basic and nursing sciences, experience, aesthetics, nurses’ attitudes, and standards of practice.
