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Transition Deck 1 Flashcards

1
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___ of a professional nursing practice is the process whereby the values and norms of the nursing profession are internalized into the nurse’s own behavior and self-concept.

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Socialization

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Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, and Expert describe __’s five stages of socialization

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Benner’s five stages

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Earliest group associated with the community health nurse of today, helped associate nursing with devotion to patients beyond salary or good working conditions

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Order of the Deaconesses

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__ ___ . She cleaned up the hospitals during the Crimean War, reducing mortality rate from 60% to 1%. This led to the British Army Nursing Service and Queen Alexandria Imperial Military Nursing Service.

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Florence Nightingale

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During the American Revolution, laywomen following their husbands into battle provided the only nursing care in barns and homes. This became one of the earliest preventive treatments: ___ vaccine

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smallpox

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She cared for soldiers in the American Civil War and founded the American Red Cross.

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Clara Barton

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The US __ ___ ___ was created in June 1943 by the Bolton Act out of necessity caused by WWII. Ideal students were 17-35, in good health, and had a good academic record. Married women and those who could only work part-time were now acceptable.

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US Cadet Nurse Corps

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MASH units (Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals) were used to treat and stabilize the wounded before returned to the field or transferred to a formal hospital. Triage care evolved. These began in the __ and __ Wars.

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Korean and Vietnam

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She helped organize better nursing management (transfer to Red Cross) and radically changed nursing education

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Isabel Hampton Robb

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She established the Frontier Nursing Service after WWI and the first midwifery schools in the US; healthcare to rural areas

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Mary Breckinridge 1881-1965

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This war is associated with greater recognition of PTSD and treatment of medical personnel, as well as increased personnel to combat areas and GI bill term inclusion of college tuition

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Gulf War (Iraq/Afghanistan)

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She was a nursing leader and women’s suffrage activist.

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Lavinia Dock

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A Boston school teacher known for her efforts on behalf of the mentally ill, which resulted in better separation of criminals and the insane, and state mental institutions 1802-1881

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Dorothea Dix

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America’s first African American nurse

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Mary Mahoney

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Abolitionist worker of the underground railroad who also worked with Clara Barton to tend to Civil War soldiers regardless of race 1820-1913

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Harriet Tubman

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She was America’s first trained nurse, developed first record-keeping system for hospitalized patients

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Linda Richards

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She and her sister opened the first birth control clinic in America

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Margaret Sanger

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Born into slavery, nursed Union soldiers 1797-1883

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Sojourner Truth

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She initiated the study “Community College Education for Nursing” 1959, which resulted in associate degree nursing

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Mildred Montag

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She was an early theorist who taught that a patient is a person who requires help toward independence.

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Virginia Henderson

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She was a psychiatric nurse instructor who described the nurse-client relationship

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Hildegard Peplau

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She established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in NYC, the founder of public health nursing

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Lillian Wald

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What resulted from the “Nursing and Nursing Education in the US” study in 1923 by Goldmark and the Rockefeller Foundation?

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pointed out fundamental faults in hospital training, resulted in Yale School of Nursing, and focused on better educational preparation including public health nurses

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What was the focus of the “Nursing for the Future” Brown report of 1948?

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Described inadequacies in nursing school based on society’s need for nursing. Recommendation for nurse education in colleges and universities and encouraged recruitment of men and minorities

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The Ginzberg Report “A Program for the Nursing Profession” of 1948 focused on what?

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Reviewed nurse shortages and recommended teams of variously educated nurses to meet that shortage

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Mildred Montag’s “Community College Education for Nursing” of 1959 encouraged what?

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Established associate degree nursing programs (more of them?)

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ANA’s position paper on Educational Preparedness for Nurse Practitioners and Assistants to Nurses of 1965 took these positions:

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  • education for licensure to practice should be in higher learning institutions
  • minimum preparation for beginning professional nurse should be baccalaureate degree
  • minimum training for technical (LPN) should be associate degree education
  • education for assistance should be short, intensive programs in vocational educational institutions rather than on the job
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Lysaught Report of 1970 “An Abstract for Action” -

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examined current practices and patterns of nursing. suggested joint practice committees, master planning for nursing education, funding for nursing education and research

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1995 Health Profession Education for the Future: Schools in Service to the Nation (Pew Health Professions Commission)

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develop programs that allow undergraduate and graduate nursing students to interact in a collaborative manner with a range of disciplines in healthcare

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30
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The ICN

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International Council of Nurses

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The ___ concerns itself with social and economic welfare of nurses, role of nurse in healthcare, roles of national nursing organizations throughout the world and their relationships to their governing bodies. Has representatives from 104 national nurse’s organizations, HQ in Geneva, Switzerland

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ICN - International Council of Nurses

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32
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The ANA

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American Nurses Association

33
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Professional association for RNs, its origins in a meeting of nursing leaders at the World’s Fair Chicago in 1890.

34
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This organization of RNs produced the Code of Ethics for Nurses in 2001

35
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AACN

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American Association of Colleges of Nursing

36
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This group includes deans and directors of programs that offer a baccalaureate degree in nursing; works in higher learning accreditation for nursing programs

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AACN - American Association of Colleges of Nursing

37
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NCSBN

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National Council of State Boards of Nursing

38
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This group provides a forum for the legal regulatory bodies of all states to act together in the development of the licensing exams; one delegate from each state agency meets this council

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NCSBN - National Council of State Boards of Nursing

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NLN

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National League for Nursing

40
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The first nursing organization in the US, founded in 1893, advances quality nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse population in an ever-changing healthcare environment

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NLN - National League for Nursing

41
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International organization established in collegiate schools of nursing to recognize those with superior ability and leadership potential as well as those who have made significant contributions to nursing.

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STTI - Sigma Theta Tau International

42
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International collegiate organization responsible for the first online nursing journal

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STTI - Sigma Theta Tau International

43
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Honorary nursing association in the ANA formed in 1973 to recognize nurses responsible for significant contributions to the profession of nursing.

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AAN - American Academy of Nursing

44
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Professional organization for students in schools of nursing founded in 1952. Fully run, financed, organized by nursing students. Developed the student bill of rights.

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NSNA - National Student Nurses’ Association

45
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AAMN is the name of a nursing association. It stands for

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American Assembly for Men in Nursing

46
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National group which advocates for ADN education and practice, membership open to individuals, states, agencies, organizations

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NOADN - National Organization of Associate Degree Nursing

47
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National organization for nurses who design, facilitate, and manage care

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AONE - American Organization of Nurse Executives

48
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NAHN is the name of a nursing organization. It stands for

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National Association of Hispanic Nurses

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NBNA is the name of a nursing organization, it stands for

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National Black Nurses Association

50
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For profit hospitals are termed __, and have shareholders to please

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proprietary hospitals

51
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This agency ensures healthcare institutions and agencies, like hospitals, that meet specific quality criteria

52
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Theorist involved with the “Core of Nursing”

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Jean Watson

53
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Developed the self-care model of nursing

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Dorothea Orem

54
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Developed nursing theory surrounding the unitary man

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Martha Rogers

55
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Founder of Modern Nursing/nursing education

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Florence Nightingale

56
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Pioneer of Psychiatric nursing (20th cent)

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Hildegard Peplau

57
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OBRA - omnibus budget reconciliation act - mandates national care in ___ (setting)

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skilled nursing facilities

58
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term meaning moral standards are independent of consequences

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Deontology

59
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term meaning the ends justify the means

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utilitarianism

60
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nonmalficence

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delivering care without harming the patient

61
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outpatient care that does not require overnight stay, minor surgeries and diagnostic surgeries

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ambulatory care

62
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one nurse will carry out one duty for a large number of patients

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functional nursing

63
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leadership style in which the leader makes all decisions

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authoritarian

64
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leadership style in which decisions are made by several employees, but not everyone

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multicratic

65
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leadership style in which all employees have a say in decision-making

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democratic

66
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1st state to protect whistleblowers

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New Jersey

67
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case law is also termed __ law, or a set precedence of cases already ruled on

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common law

68
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State Boards of nursing administer regulations via __ law

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administrative

69
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this empowers state boards to formulate and enforce regulations

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statutory law

70
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first international organization for professional women

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ICN - International Council of Nurses

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professional organization for RNs, represents nursing for legislative actions, sets standards of practice

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ANA - American Nurses Association

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This organization fosters development and improvement of all nursing services and nursing education, it’s open to all nurses, nonnurses, the public, and agencies; provides voluntary accreditation and testing services

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NLN - National League for Nursing

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National voice for baccalaureate and higher degree nursing programs

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AACN - American Association of Colleges in Nursing

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National organization advocating for student and patient rights, self-governed by students

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NSNA - national student nurses’ association

75
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This theorist centered her theme around caring, began transcultural nursing care

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Madeline Leininger

76
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This theorist described nursing as a series of human interactions, and believed the nurse and patient needed to collaborate to set and reach goals

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Imogene King

77
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Theorized on adaptation

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Sister Callista Roy

78
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Theorized on reducing stress and adverse conditions

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