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AH- CH 1
Adult Health I
Question | Answer |
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what is the center of your practice as a nurse? | the patient |
what does professional practice include? | knowledge from social and behavioral sciences, biological and physiological sciences, and nursing theories |
what does the nursing practice include? | social values, professional autnomy, a sense of commitment and community, and a code of ethics |
what is the foundation for nursing and is the basis for the advancement of nursing practice and the development of nursing science? | your ability to interpret clinical situations and make complex decisions |
_____ ______ skills are essential to nursing | critical thinking |
Florence Nightingale studied and implemented methods to improve ______, which reduced ______ | battlefield sanitation...< illness, infection, and mortality |
nursing is a combination of knowledge of the _____, ____, _____, and ______ | physical sciences, humanities, social sciences, and clinical competencies |
Florence Nightingale saw the role of nursing as ____ | taking charge of someone's health |
what did Nightingale develop for nurses? | a training program--Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London |
___ was the first practicing nurse epidemiologist | Nightingale |
what did Nightingales poor sanitation analysis connect to? | cholera and dysentery |
who was the founder of the red cross? | Clara Barton |
___ lobbied for the red cross for ___ years | Clara Barton....10 |
superintendfent of the female nurses during the civil war for the union army | Dorothea Lynde Dix |
organized ambulance services, supervised nurses, and walked abandonded battlefields at night looking for wounded soliders | Mary Ann Ball (Mother Bickerdyke) |
active in the underground railroad movement and assisted in leading over 300 slaves to freedom | Harriet Tubman |
first professionally trained African American nurse | Mary Mahoney |
helped found the Nurse's Association Alumnae of the USA and Canada in 1896, which became the American Nurses Association in 1911 | Isabel Hampton Robb |
who was known as the lady with the lamp and why? | Florence Nightingale--b/c walked around battlefields with a lamp volunteering as a nurse |
who was one of the orinigal founders of the American Journal of Nursing? | Isabel Hampton Robb |
Who opened the Henry Street Settlement in NYC | Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster |
what are 4 external forces that affect nursing? | demographic changes in the population, human rights, > # of medically underserved, and threat of bioterrorism |
recent decades the population shidt from rural to urban centers, > life span, > incidence of chronic illness are all ___ | demographic changes |
there is a greater sensitivity to health care needs of a women and the role of women in health care research | women's health care issues |
nurses advocate the rights of all clients and recognize the special needs of some groups | human rights movement |
what are the 2 biggest safety problems? | client falls and medication errors |
problem-solving approach to clinical practice that uses the best available evidence along with your expertise and client preferences and values in making decisions about care | evidenced based practice (most of what we do as nurses) |
what is a professional? | --requires an extended education of members and a basic liberal foundation --has a theoretical body of knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms --provides a specific service --have autonomy in decision-making and practice |
is the ideals of right and wrong that define the principles used to provide care to your clients | code of ethics |
6 standards of nursing practice | assessment, diagnosis, outcome identifications, planning, implentation, and evaluation |
involves formal, organized educational programs offered by universities, hospitals, state nurses ass, pro nursing org, and ed and health care institutions | continuing education |
help the client regain health and a max level of independent function through the healing process | caregiver |
you protect your client's human and legal rights and provide assisstance in asserting those rights if the need arises | advocate |
you explain concepts and facts anout health, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activites, reinforce learning or client behavior, and evaluate the client's progress in learing | educator |
is central to the nurbse-client relationship. helps you to know the clients strenghts, weaknesses, needs and fears | communicator |
establish an environment for collaborative care to provide quality care and good client outcomes | manager |