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Nursing
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02/09/2010

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Leah Richards
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1st trained nurse in 1874
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Mary Breckinridge
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Founder of frontier nursing service
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Frontier nursing service
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provided healthcare and midwifery for isolated areas
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Clara Barton
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Gathered supplies for troops, known as the angel of the battlefield, and founded the red cross in 1882. Helped begin the army nurse corps
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Florence Nightengale
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Est. 1st nursing school, helped lower the death toll during crimean war
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Nightengale principles 
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Health promotion, illness prevention, and health restoration
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Margaret Sanger
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Founded planned parenthood, birth control activist 
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Mary Eliza Mahoney
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1st educated African American Nurse
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Lillian Wald
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Public Health founder, Henry Street Settlement
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Henry Street settlement
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Educated people in their homes, began school nursing
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Jesse Sleet Scales
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established the Stillman house
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Stillman House
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Served blacks in community health
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Kohlberg
Definition

preconventional, conventional, and postconventional

Only used men in study

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Gilligan
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Moral development based on relationships
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ICN
Definition
International Council of Nurses, state registration of nurses
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ANA
Definition

American nurses association

enhanced collaboration, dealt with collegiete aspect

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NLN
Definition

National league for nursing

Advance profession through advocacy and education standards

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HIPAA
Definition
Law to protect health insurance coverage when workers lose their jobs (1996)
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Patient self determination act
Definition
right to informed consent, know what treatment you want and document it in case incapable later
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Nurse Practice Act
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Defines scope of practice
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Patients bill of rights
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responsibilites we have towards patients and families during hospitilizations
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Informed consent
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Sign form once procedure has been explained, understood, and privacy is ensured. Never done by nurse, always by doctor
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NCLEX-RN
Definition
Exam graduates take to become liscensed
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Statuatory law
Definition
formal legislation
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administrative law
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regulates abbreviations and the nurse practice act
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criminal law
Definition
when something illegal occurs
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Civil law
Definition
rights of individuals
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Traditional death
Definition
no breathing or heart beat
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whole brain death
Definition
no brain function or activity
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Higher brain death
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permanent loss of consciousness but brainstem works ( vegetative state)
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Personhood
Definition
 No features to identity..no communication or function
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Justice
Definition
fairness, equals should be treated as such
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autonomy
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make independent choices
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mentoring
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experienced nurse shares knowledge with others to advance their careers
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lateral violence
Definition
peer scrutinizes or sabotages you
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futile care
Definition
physiologically has no benefit
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Rule of double effect
Definition
one act can cause another effect. In medicine there are two outcomes for one thing
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code of ethics
Definition
guidelines for actions to make a moral decision. Right or wrong
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Fidelity 
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fairness
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veracity
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telling the truth
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beneficence
Definition
benefitting others in what you do
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nonmaleficence
Definition
avoiding harm
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Utilitarianism
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Judge action based on outcome. Good if good for everyone, bad if consequences

 

ex:natural disaster

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Deontology
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Depends on nature of act. Doing honor, duty, obligation. 
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Virtue Ethics
Definition
natural tendencies, how you act feel and judge
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Power of attorney
Definition
most legal. Designate someone to make your decisions
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Living will
Definition
What you want done for you
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Medical Directive
Definition
Tell doctor to put specific plan in record. not legal at all
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Classical Era
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Disease was punishment, nursing was performed by families, est hygiene and sanitation
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Roman Era
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Sewers and public health
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Middle Ages
Definition
Community disease was popular, christianity in healthcare, bubonic plague, and witch craze
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Reformation
Definition
Eliminated nuns as nurses, nursing became dirty and a punishment
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Dorothea Dix
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Sanitary Commissioner
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Depression
Definition
Nursing schools closed
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World War 2
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mandated work hours, no more regulations
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#1 barrier to nursing
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educational variability
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state board
Definition
determines legal titles, disciplinary actions. Has 9 members
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Licensure does what
Definition
protects society
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Multi-state licensure  
Definition
mutual recognition model
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tort
Definition
civil wrongs, not always intentional
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negligence
Definition
failure to act prudent
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malpractice
Definition
not standard level of care that causes injury
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