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Chapter 1: Succeeding as a Nursing Student
Introduction to nursing
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Nursing
Pre-School
04/15/2012

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SQ3R
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survey, question, read, recall/recite, review
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Florence Nightingale
Definition
-achievements in improving the standards for the care of war casualties in Crimea="Lady with the Lamp"
-reformed hospitals
-produced and implemented public health policies
-1st nurse to exert political pressure on govt
-Nursing's first scientist-theorist
-Established Nightingale training school for nurses in 1860
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Clara Barton
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-teacher who volunteered as a nurse during American CW.
-organized the American Red Cross
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Lillian Wald
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-founder of public health nursing
-founded the Henry St Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service, which provided nursing and social services and organized educational and cultural activities
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Lavinia Dock
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-feminist, writer, political activist, suffragist, friend of Wald
-protest movement that resulted in the passage of 19th amendement-women suffrage.
-campaigned to allow nurses rather than physicians to control their profession
-Dock, Mary Adelaide Nutting, and Isabel Hampton RObb founded American Society for Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the US and Canada. precursor to National League for Nursing
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consumer
Definition
someone who uses a service or a commodity
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patient
Definition
someone who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care
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client
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someone who engages the advice or services of someone who is qualified to provide the service
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Nursing Goals
Definition
promote health and wellness, prevent illness, restore health, care for dying
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hippocrates
Definition
father of medicine
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Mary Mahoney
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1st African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse
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Dorothea Dix
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-advocate for mentally ill and prisoners
-CW superintendent of Union Army Nurses
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Isabel Hampton Robb
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1 of the founders of modern American nursing theory and 1 of the most important leaders in history of nursing
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Friar Juan de Mena
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1st nurse in US
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ALexian Brothers1
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opened their 1st hospitals in US and a school to educate men in nursing
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James Derham
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black slave, worked as a nurse, bought freedom
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St. Camillus de Lellis
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soldier then became a nurse
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Nurse practice acts
Definition
legal acts for professional nursing practice, regulates the practice of nursing in the US and Canada
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Smith Hughes Act
Definition
provided federal funding for vocationally oriented schools for practical nursing
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Wellness
Definition
state of well-being
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illness
Definition
highly individualized response a person has to a disease
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