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| organized care for victims of the Black Plague in the 14th Century in Germany |
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| a role that has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically |
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| a nurse who works with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and monitor outcomes |
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| persons (or groups) who initiate change or who assist others in making modifications in themselves or in the system |
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| a schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War. Most notably, she organized the American Red Cross, which linked with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva Convention in 1882 |
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| a person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service |
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| acts to protect the client |
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| nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team |
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| an individual, a group of people, or a community that uses a service or commodity |
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| Continuing Education (CE) |
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| formalized experiences designed to enlarge the knowledge or skills of practitioners |
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| the process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth |
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| the study of population, including statistics about distribution by age and place of residence, mortality, and morbidity |
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| Diagnostic-related Groups (DRGs) |
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| a Medicare payments system to hospitals and physicians that establishes fess according to diagnosis |
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| woman leader who provided nursing care during the Civil War |
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| a wealthy Roman matron; viewed by some as the patron saint of early nursing who used her position and wealth to establish hospitals for the sick |
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| considered the founder of modern nursing, she was influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration |
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| the establishment and maintenance of social, polotical, and economic arrangements by which practitioners control their practice, self-discipline, working conditions, and professional affairs |
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| known as "the Moses of Her People" for her work with the Underground Railroad; during the Civil War she nursed the sick and suffering of her own race |
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| education that is designed to upgrade the knowledge or skills of employees |
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| an order of knights that dedicated themselves to the care of people with leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin conditions |
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| a nursing leader and suffragist who was active in the protest movement for women's rights that resulted in the U.S. Constitution amendment allowing women to vote in 1920 |
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| a person who influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal |
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| founder of the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service, which provided nursing and social services and organized educational and cultural activities; considered the founder of public health nursing |
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| America's first trained nurse |
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| male nurse of distinction; many firsts for first graduate male nurse in 1939, he faced discrimination, but had to pass the same licensure exam as every nurse. first man nominated for president of ANA, elected to the American Academy of Nursing, and to be inducted into the ANA's Hall of Fame |
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| delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses, and supervises and evaluates their performance |
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| considered the founder of Planned Parenthood, was imprisoned for opening the first birth control information clinic in Baltimore in 1916 |
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| a nurse who practiced midwivery in England, Australia, and New Zealand; founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in 1925 to provide family-centered primary health care to rural populations |
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| first African American professional nurse |
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| a person who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care |
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| Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) |
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| legislation requiring that every competent adult be informed in writing on admission to a health care institution about his or her rights to accept or refuse medical care and to use advance directives |
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| an occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation |
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| a set of attributes, a way of life that implies responsibility and commitment |
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| the process of becoming professional; acquiring characteristics considered to be professional |
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| a character in the Charles Dickens book Martin Chizzlewit who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800s |
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| a process by which a person learns the ways of a group or society in order to become a functioning participant |
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| an abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent, preacher, and women's rights advocate, she was a nurse for more than 4 years during the Civil War and worked as a nurse and counselor for the Freedman's Relief Association after the war |
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| descriptions of the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable |
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| Standards of Professional Performance |
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| as set by the American Nurses Association (ANA), describe behaviors expected in the professional nursing role |
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| a nurse who helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health |
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| the transmission of information from one site to another, using equipment to transmit information in the forms of signs, signals, words, or pictures by cable, radio, or other systems |
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