The profession of Nursing Flashcards
Clara Barton
Founder of the Red Cross and tended to soldiers on the battlefield cleaning their wounds, meeting their needs, comforting them in death.
Dorthea Lynde Dix
She was Superintendent of the female nurse of the Union Army, she organize hospitals, appointed nurses, and regulated supplies to troops. She is known for her work with the mentally ill.
Mary Ann Ball (Mother Bickerdyke)
She organized ambulance services and look for injured troops at night on the battlefield. She is from Illinois.
Harriet Tubman
She was active in underground railroad movement.
Mary Mahoney
She was the first professionally trained African-American nurse. She was concerned with the relationship between culture and race inequality in care. She brought forth awareness of cultural diversity and respect for the individual regardless of background, race, color or religion.
Isabel Hampton Robb
She helped found the nurses Association alumni which became the ANA. She also authored many text books
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster
They open the Henry Street settlement which focused on healthcare needs of poor individuals in New York City
20th century nursing
The 20th century movement to develop the scientific research base definition of knowledge and practice evolving. Nursing began to assume expanded and advanced practice roles.
Mary Adelaide Nutting
She was instrumental to nursing education. She became the first professor of nursing at Columbia university. She suggested university of nursing get money
1920s nursing
Army and navy nurse corps were established. 1920s nurse specialization was developing. The last half of the century specialty nursing organizations were created.
1990 nursing
The ANA established a center for ethics and human rights
Clara Maass
She was a nurse who died as a result of participating in a test to prove mosquitoes carry yellow fever.
Lavinia Dock
She was a lecture, author, activists, companion for woman suffrage and participating in antiwar protest sometimes leading to her arrest. Leadership in the international Council of nursing
Influences on nursing
Healthcare reform Demographic changes Medically undeserved Threat of bioterrorism Rising healthcare cost nursing shortage
A profession has what primary characteristics?
-It requires a basic liberal foundation and an extended education of members.
– It has a theoretical body of knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms.
– Provides a specific service.
– Members of a profession have autonomy in decision-making in practice.
– Has a code of ethics.
ANA standards of nursing practice
- Assessment 2. Diagnosis 3. Outcome identification 4. Planning 5. Implementation 6. Evaluation
Code of ethics
The philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principals you will use to provide care to your patients
ANA standards of professional performance
- Ethics 2. Education 3. Evidence-based practice and research 4. Quality of practice 5. Communication 6. Leadership 7. Collaboration 8. Professional practice evaluation 9. Resources 10. Environmental health
Registered nurse
Completion of associates or baccalaureate degree program. Graduates of both programs are eligible to take the national Council licensure examination for registered nurse to become an RN in the state of which they practice
Continuing education
Involves formal, organized educational programs offered by universities, hospitals, state nurses associations, professional nursing organizations, and educational and healthcare institutes.
In-service education
Programs are instruction or training provided by healthcare agency or institution. Held in the institution and designed to increase the knowledge, skills, and competencies of nurses and other healthcare professionals employed by that institution.
Nurse practice act
Regulate the scope of nursing practice and protect public health, safety, and welfare. Create a state board of nursing to enforce rules. Define important terms. Establish criteria for education of nurses
Licensure of RN
Provides the standardized minimum knowledge base for nurses
Autonomy and accountability
Essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders
Caregiver
Help patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and obtain a maximum level function and independence through the healing process
Patient advocate
Protect your patients human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting these rights if the needs arise
Educator
Explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for routine care activities, demonstrate procedures, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate the patient’s progress in learning.
Communicator
Essential to the patient nurse relationship. Allows you to know your patients including their strengths and weaknesses and their needs
Manager
Establish an environment for collaborative patient centered care to provide safety, quality care with positive patient outcomes. Coordinate the activities of members of the nursing staff in developing nursing care.
Advanced practice registered nurse
Mostly independently functioning. Has a Masters degree.
Clinical nurse specialist
A advanced practice registered nurse who is an expert clinician in a specialized areas of practice
Nurse practitioner
An advanced practice registered nurse who provides healthcare to a group of patients usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based setting. Provide care for patients with a complex problem and a more holistic approach then physicians
Certified nurse midwife
Advanced practice registered nurse who is educated in midwifery and certified by the American College of nurse midwives. Provides independent care for women during normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery and care of newborns
Certified registered nurse anesthetist
Advanced practice registered nurse with advanced education in a nurse anesthesia accredited program. Nurse anesthetist provides surgical anesthesia under the guidance and supervision of an anesthesiologist
Nurse administrator
Manages patient care and the delivery of specific nursing services within a healthcare agency
Nurse researcher
Investigates problems to improve nursing care and further define and expand the scope of nursing practice
Professional organization
Deals with issues of concern to those practicing in the profession
National League for nurses (NLN)
Advances excellence in nursing education to prepare nurses to meet the needs of a diverse population in changing healthcare environment
Quality and safety education for nurses
Patient centered care – recognize the patient or designee as source of control in providing compassionate and coordinated care.
Teamwork and collaboration – function effectively in team to achieve quality patient care.
Evidence-based practice – integrate best evidence with patient preference in delivery of optimal care.
Quality improvement – use data to monitor outcomes and improve methods to improve the quality and safety of the healthcare system.
Safety – minimize risk of harm to patients and providers.
Informatics – use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, support decision-making.
Genomics
The study of inheritance, or the way traits are passed down from one generation to another.
American nurses Association (ANA) define 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 that efficacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Florence Nightingale
Establish the first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration. Developed the first organized program for training nurses. She was the first practicing nurse Epidemiologist. She volunteered during the Crimean war in 1853. Traveled battlefield at night with her lamp. Connected poor sanitation with disease
Nursing theory
A conceptualization of some aspects of nursing that describe, explain, predicts, or prescribes nursing care
Evidence-based practice
A problem-solving approach to clinical practice that integrates the conscientious use of best evidence in combination with a clinicians expertise and patients preferences in values in making decisions about patient care
Accreditation
To clarify as meeting I’ll formal, official requirements of academic, curriculum, facilities, ect.
Dependent nursing
Nursing action prescribed by physician or by operational protocol in healthcare facility
Independent nursing actions
Nurse initiated interventions
Interdependent nursing action
Multi-disciplinary collaboration or consultation
Licensed practical/vocational nurse (LPN)
Nurse who works under the direction of the RN
Occupational therapist
Use of assessment or treatment to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living in work skills of people with a physical, mental, or cognitive disorder
Pharmacist
Healthcare professionals who practice pharmacy, the field of focus on safe and effective medication use
Physical therapist
Hope patient to reduce pain and improve or restore mobility
Physician
A person legally qualified to practice medicine
Physician assistant
License to practice medicine as part of a team with physicians and other providers
Respiratory therapist
Treats patients with healthcare issues affect in the cardio pulmonary system
Social worker
Promotes social change and development, social cohesion, empowerment and liberation of people
