Unit 1 Flashcards
List 5 things that both the SRNA AND CNA have
- NCLEX-RN Exam
- Code of Ethics
- Nurse Practitioner Roles and Responsibilities
- Registered Nurse Roles
- Info on how to Become and Register Nurse
List 5 things that only the SRNA has
- Registered Nurses Act
- Standard and Foundation Competencies
- Hearings
- Registration
- Workplace Representative Program
List 3 things that only the CNA has
- Principles to Guide Health Care Transformation in Canada instead (2011)
- Taking Action on Nursing Fatigue
- Canadian Nurse Link
When was the systems model developed?
1970s and 1980s
What is the outline of the systems model?
The patient is viewed as the whole that is constantly interacting with the environment and the Nurse is a force the affects the main system
What is the standards of care?
Law requires a medical practicioner to prove care and skill expected of a normal and prudent practitioner
What was nursing at first? (Two point)
Midwifery and Charity
Who were the first nurses?
Aboriginals and Nuns
Where did nurses first serve?
In the millitary medical units
Who were the three nurses that were key figures and helped develope nursing as a healing and helping job in Canada?
Marie Hebert
Jeanne Mance
Marguerite d’Youville
Who is Florence Nightingale?
English Nurse, Writer and Statistician that served in Crimean War
What did Florence Nightingale promote?
Promoted nutrition
sanitary conditions
healthy environment
nurse-patient relationships for good outcomes
When is Florence Nightingale’s birthday?
May 12 (Nurses Week)
How did Florence reduce the death rate of soldiers by 2/3?
Trained more nurses
What is the Lamp a symbol of?
Modern Nursing
Reliability
Courage
Support
Nursing is a trusted profession with what 3 values?
Integrity, Strength, Ability
What was the name of the British Nurse that worked in the Belgium hospital during WW1?
Edith Cavell
What happened to Edith Cavell?
Arrested for treason and was executed
Where is Canada’s Nursing Siters memorial located?
Hall of Honour
Around how many nurses served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps?
3000+
What year was the first nursing training school incorporated
1874
Until when was student nurses a big part of the hospitals?
1940s
Until when was Apprenticeship training a primary model?
1970s
When did nurses gain control over credentialing the registration of the overabundance of nurses?
1900s
When was the First University Degree incorporated for nurses?
1919
When was there a nursing shortage?
1970s
What year was there a baccalaureate entry into nursing?
2000
Jean Goodwill was the first Aborignal Nurse who graduated from the Sask nursing program in what year?
1954
How many schools allowed male nurses in 1961?
25 out of 170
What is scope?
Its the activities that nurses are educated and legally authorized to perform
What is the main purpose of scope?
Promote health and wellness
Prevent illness
Restore health
Care for dying
Other characteristics of scope?
- Perform and coordinate care for stable to complex clients in diverse practice domains and environments utilizing critical thinking, clinical judgment and leadership.
- Possess the knowledge, skill and judgment to recognize, anticipate, assess and manage client care.
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic client care using assignment, collaboration and communication for ongoing care needs.
- Support direct care nurses in the provision of safe, competent and ethical RN care
What are some nursing roles?
- Entry point for client accessing health services
- Provide nursing care and treatment for those with health problems
- Help clients to identify and use health resources both formally and informally
- Act as a source of health and information
- Involve clients in decisions about their health
- Encourage clients to take action for their own health
- Assist clients to determine own health needs
- Involve clients in evaluating health services
- Encourage use of community services
What is the Provider of services legal roles, responsibilites and rights?
To provide safe, competent care commensurate with the nurse’s preparation, experience, and circumstances.
To inform clients of the consequences of various alternatives and outcomes of care.
To provide adequate supervision and evaluation of others for whom the nurse is responsible.
The right to reasonable and prudent conduct from clients
What is the employer or contractor of services legal roles, responsibilites and rights?
To fulfill the obligations of contracted service with the employer.
To respect the employer.
To respect the rights and responsibilities of other healthcare providers.
The right to adequate, safe working conditions.
The right to compensation for services rendered.
The right to reasonable and prudent conduct by other healthcare providers.
What is the citizens legal role, responsibilties, and rights?
To protect the rights of the recipients of care.
The right to respect of the nurse’s own rights and responsibilities by others.
The right to physical safety.
Florence Nightingale
Environment
Hildegarde Peplau
Therapeutic Relationship
Virginia Henderson
Independence of meeting fundamental needs
Sister Calista Roy
Adaption
Jean Watson
Energy, Caring, Transcendence
Rosemary Parse
Lived experience and human becoming
Madeleine Leininger
Culture
Margaret Newman
Consciousness
Margaret Campbell
Coping ability / mechanisms
F. Movra Allen
Social processes
What is our relulatory body?
SRNA
What can the SRNA do?
- Regulate entry into practice
- Approve nursing education programs
- Set standards of competent practice
- Establish continuing competence or education
- Draft bylaws for routine governance
- Credentialing
- Expansion of the role of the RN – advanced practice role
What is the Title of Control
Use of RN. Nurse, RPN, NP which are titles protected by legislation
What other regulatory body does the SRNA work with?
CNA
What do they work together to develope?
Standards of practice = values, expectations, performance benchmarks
Scope of practice = activities that RN’s are educated and authorized to perform
Continuing competence = ongoing evaluation of performance
What is a nursing standard?
Describes the required behavior of every nurse and is used to evaluate individual performance?
What are foundation competencies?
Minimum levels of expected registered nurse performance
