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| specialized nursing care provided at the end of life to patients and their families in homes and residential facilities. Aimed at a comfortable and dignified death that honors the wishes of patients and loved ones |
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| hospice and palliatory care nurses |
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| health services provided to those who visit a clinic or hospital as outpatients and depart after treatment of the same day |
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| medical, nursing, or custodial care provided to an individual over a prolonged period of time |
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| a nurse who is in charge of all activities in a unit, including patient care, continuous quality improvement, personnel selection and evaluation, and resource management. |
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| a nurse who engages in a business undertaking related to health care of nursing, such as owning a traveling nurse agency |
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| self-determination. Control over one’s own professional practice |
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| a nurse specializing in the care of a specific group of workers in a given occupational setting |
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| occupational and environmental health nurses |
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| nurse specializing in the care of the school-age children or adolescents and practicing in school settings |
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| systematic collaboration with patients, their significant others, and their health care providers, to coordinate high-quality health care services in a cost-effective manner with positive patient outcomes |
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| the delivery of nursing care services and related health care activities through telecommunication technology, such as telephones, video conferencing, and others. |
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| a nurse with an advanced degree who serves as a resource person to other nurses and often provides direct care to patients or families with particularly difficult or complex problems |
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| clinical nurse specialist |
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| a nationally certified nurse with advanced specialized education who assists women and couples during uncomplicated pregnancies, deliveries, and postdelivery periods |
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| a person who engages in one of the professions |
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| professional behavior, appearance, conduct |
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| work requiring advanced training and usually involving mental rather than manual effort. usually has code of ethics and a professional organization |
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| an organization of members with common interests |
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| a person's principal work or business |
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| the connection and feeling of similarity individuals in a particular group feel with one another; group identification |
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| responsibility for one's behavior |
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| unselfish concern for the welfare of others |
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| watching over, attending to, and providing for the needs of others |
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| the use of research findings as a basis for practice rather than trial and error, intuition, or traditional methods, such as problem solving |
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| a designation granted by the ANCC, provides excellent patient outcomes, a high level of job satisfaction among nurses, low staff nurse turnover rate, and appropriate grievance resolution |
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| a statement of professional standards used to guide behavior and as a framework for decision making |
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| the promotion of collaboration, cooperation, and recognition of interdependence among members of a profession |
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| 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 |
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| a critical thinking model used by nurses that comprises the integration of the singular, concurrent actions of these six components: assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation |
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| the person, client, family, group, community, or population who is the focus of attention and to whom the registered nurse is providing services as sanctioned by the state regulatory body |
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| an expected and measurable level of nursing performance that integrates knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment, based of established scientific knowledge and expectations for nursing practice |
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