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What are some selected aspects of events that have influenced the nursing practice? |
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* Women's Roles and Status- Traditional female roles of wife,mother,daughter, and sister have always included the care and nurturing of other family members.
* Religious (Christian) values
* War
*Societal Attitudes
*Visionary Nursing Leadership
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Her efforts in reforming hospitals and in producing and implementing public health policies made her and accomplished political nurse: She was the first nurse to exert political pressure on government. She is recognized as nursing's firstscientist-theorist for her work. She improved the standards for the care of war casualties in the Crimea. Who is she?
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| She became the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses responsible for recruiting nurses and supervising the nursing care of all women nurses working in the army hospitals. |
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| Nursing is defined as...... |
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| Caring, an art, a science, client centered, holistic, adaptive, concerned with health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration, a helping profession. |
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What are the 3 recepients of nursing called?
Define them. |
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Consumer - is an individual,group of people, or a community that uses a service or commodity. People who use health care products or services are consumers of health care.
Patient - is a person who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care.
Client - is a person who engages the advice or services of another who is qualified to provide this service. The term clientpresents the receivers of health care as collaborators in the care, that is, as people who are also responsible for their own health. |
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| Nursing practice involves four areas which is considered the Scope of Nursing. What are they? |
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1.) Promoting Health and Wellnes
2.) Preventing Illness
3.) Restoring Health
4.) Caring for the Dying |
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| What is the common purpose of the Nurse Practice Acts? How does it regulate practice and what are it's jurisdiction variations? |
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* It regulates the practice of Nursing in the US and Canada.
*Each state in the US and each province in Canada has its own act.
* Although npa differ in various jurisdictions, they all have a common purpose: to protect the public.
* Nurses are responsible for knowing their state's nurse practice act as it governs their practice. |
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| What is the ANA Standards of Practice? |
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| it describes the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable. |
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| What are the ROLES and FUNCTIONS of a NURSE? |
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•Caregiver
•Communicator
•Teacher
•Client and advocate
•Counselor •Changeagent •Leader •Manager
•Case manager
•Research consumer
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What are the criteria of a profession? |
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| a.) its requirement of prolonged, specialized training to acquire a body of knowledge pertinent to the role to be performed b.) an orientation of the individual toward service, either to a community or to an organization c.)ongoing reasearch d.)a code of ethics e.) autonomy f.)a profesional organization |
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| List the 5 stages of Benner's Nursing Expertise in increasing experience. |
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Stage 1- novice
Stage 2 - Advanced Beginner
Stage 3- Competent
Stage 4 - Proficient
Stage 5 - Expert |
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| What are the Critical Values of Nursing? |
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•Code of ethics
•Standards
•Nurse practice acts
•NSNA’s Code of Academic and Clinical Conduct |
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