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Kozier Chapter 1
Chapter 1
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Which women made significant contributions to the nursing care of soliders during the Civil War? Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightgale, Fabiola, Dorothe Dix, Sojourner Truth | Harriet Tubman, Dorothea Dix, Sojourner Truth |
Fabiola | converted Christianity and used their wealth to provide houses of care and healing for the poor, the sick, and homeless |
Knights of St Lazarus | dedicated themselves to the care of people w. leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin conditions |
Alexian Brothers | organized care for victims of the Black Plaque in the 14th century in Germany |
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth | provided care and safety to slaves fleeing to the North on the Underground Railroad |
Dorothea Dix | become the Union's superintendent of femal nurses responsible for recruiting nurses and supervisiong the nursing care of all women nurses working |
Sairy Gamp | A character of Dickens-she care for the sick by neglecting them, stealig from them and physically abusing them. |
Linda Richards | America's 1st trained nurse. Graduated from New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1873 |
Mary Mahoney | First African American professional nurse graduated the New England Hospital for Women and Children 1879 |
Lillian Wald | Considered the founder of public health nursing |
Lavinia L. Dock | a feminist, prolific writer, political activist, suffrogette, and friend of Wald. campaigned for legislation to allow nurses rather than physicans to control their profession. |
Margaret Higgin Sanger | public health nurse in New York, has a lasting impact on women's healthcare |
Mary Breckinridge | notable pioneer nurse established the Frontier Nursing Service FNS, worked w. American Committee for Devasted France distributing food, clothing, and supplies to rural villages, taking care of sick kids. |
Continuing Education | refer to formalized experience designed to endhance knowledge/skills of practicing professionals |
In-Service Education | program, specific type of CE program that is offered by an employer |
Consumer | an individual, a group of people or community that uses service or commodity |
Patient | waiting for or undergoing medical tx and care "to suffer" or "to bear" |
Client | a person who engages the advice or services of another who is qualified to provide this service |
Luther Christman | male nurse of distinction in the U. S., chairman of the board of AAMN. |
ANA Standards of Practice | to describe the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable |
Standards of Professional performance | behavior expected in the professional nursing role |
Caregiver | role has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and phycologically while perserving client's diginity |
Communicator | identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of health team |
Teacher | helps client learn about their health and health care procedures, perform to restore or maintain health |
Change Agent | when assisting clients to make modification in their behavior |
Case Manager | work w. the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and to monitor outcomes |
Leader | influence other to work together to accomplish a specific goal |
Manager | delegate nursing activies to ancillar workers and other nurses and supervises and evaluates their performance. |
Profession | defined as an occupation that require extensive education or calling that requires special knowledge skill, and preparation |
Client advocate | act to protect the client |
Professionalism | refer to professional character, spirit, or methods, set of attributes, a way of life implies responsibilty. |