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| Protects the public by broadly defining the legal scope of nursing practice |
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| The science of nursing is the knowldegable base for the care that is given, nursing is considered both an art and a science, and nursing is a profession that is uses specialized knowledge and skills |
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| American Nurse Association (ANA) |
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| Provides a definition and a scope of practice for nursing. The nurse should deliver care in a non-judgmental manner that is sensitive to patient diversity |
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| A strong service orientation |
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| the response of a person to a disease |
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| Primary Health Promotion and Illness Prevention |
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| directed toward promoting health and preventing the development of disease processes or injury |
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| Secondary Health Promotion and Illness Prevention |
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| focus on screening for early detection of disease with prompt diagnosis and treatment of any found |
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| Tertiary Health Promotion and Illness Prevention |
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| Begins after an illness is diagnosed and treated with the goal of reducing disability and helping rehabilitate patients to a maximum level of functioning |
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| knowledge that comes from an expert and is accepted as truth based on a perceived level of expertise |
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| knowledge arrived at by applying scientific methods |
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| Knowledge passed down from generation to generation |
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| a concern for the welfare and well-being of others |
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| A systematic study of principles of right and wrong conduct, virtue and vice, and god and evil as they relate to conduct and human flourishing. The ability to be ethical begins in young adulthood, it is important to distinguish ethics from religion, law, custom, and institutional practices, values are intimately related to, and direct, ethical conduct. |
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Tune into the patient
Edit patient information
Act on every teaching moment
Clarify often
Honor the patient as a partner in the education process |
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| The ability to direct or motivate a person or group to achieve set goals. Attributes include: philosophical, charismatic, dynamic, and self-confident |
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| the movement of air into and out of the lungs |
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| gas exchange between the atmospheric air in the alveoli and blood in the capillaries |
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| the process by which oxygenated capillary blood passes through body tissues |
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| the active phase, involves movement of muscles and the thorax to bring air into the lungs |
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| the passive phase, the movement of air out of the lungs |
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a condition in which an inadequate amount of oxygen is available to cells.
Symptoms: dyspnea,elevated blood pressure, increased respiratory and pulse rate, pallor, and cyanosis.
Anxiety, restlessness, confusion, and drowsiness are common signs
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| a process in which a fluid passes through a semipermeable membrane, moving from an area in which a solute such as salt is present in low concentrations to an area in which the solute is present in high concentrations. |
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| the process whereby particles of liquids, gases, or solids intermingle as the result of their spontaneous movement caused by thermal agitation and in dissolved substances move from a region of higher to one of lower concentration |
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| the movement of a chemical substance by the expenditure of energy against a gradient in concentration or in electrical potential across a plasma membrane |
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| (1) The movement of water and solutes across the cell membrane due to hydrostatic pressure from the cardiovascular system. (2) The process of separating suspended particles from the fluid through a porous material in which the fluid can pass while the suspended particles are retained. |
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| of, relating to, involving, or being muscular contraction (as in isometrics) against resistance, without significant shortening of muscle fibers, and with marked increase in muscle tone |
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| of, relating to, or being muscular contraction in the absence of significant resistance, with marked shortening of muscle fibers, and without great increase in muscle tone |
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| exercise involving muscle contractions with resistance varying at a constant rate |
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