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nurs 211
nursing today chapter1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does ANA stand for? | American Nurses Association. |
| What was Florence Nightengale's Philosophy? | She established the first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration. |
| Who was the founder of the Red Cross? | Clara Barton. She tended to soldiers on the battlefields, cleansing their wounds, meeting their basic needs, and comforting them in death. |
| What are some societal influences on nursing? | demographic changes, womens health care issues, human rightes movement, medically underserved, and threats of bioterrorism. |
| What were Demographic changes? | They affect the population. |
| What were womens health care issues? | They demanded economic, political, occupational, and educational equality. |
| What were the Human Rights Movements? | Changed the way society viewed all its members, including minorities, clients with terminal illness, pregnant women, and older adults. |
| Who were the medically underserved? | Rising rates of unemployment and low paying jobs, mental illness, and homelessness and rising health care cost contribute to a increase in the medically underserved. |
| What are threats of bioterrorism? | The world is a changing place; threats of bioterrorism are continuous. |
| What is evidence based practice? | A 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. |
| Where can you find your scope and standards of practice for a nurse? | A document in the ANA. |
| How many standards of practice are there for nursing? | 6; assessment, diagnosis, outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation. |
| How many standards of professional performance are there? | 9; quality of practice, education,professional practice evaluation, collegiality, collaboration, ethics, research, research utilization, and leadership. |
| What is the code of ethics? | The philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principles you will use to provide care to your clients. |
| What is a RN and how can one become one? | A registered nurse. The most frequent way to become one is either through completion of an associate or baccalaureate degree program. |
| What is the exam you must take to be successfully registered as a nurse? | The N-CLEX exam. |
| What is the Nurse Practice Act? | It is overseen by the State Board of Nursing, they regulate the scope of nursing practice and protect public health, safety, and welfare. |
| What are some professional roles and responsibilities of a nurse? | Caregiver, advocate, educator, communicator, and manager. |
| What is the role of caregiver? | help the client regain health and maximum level of independent function throught the healing process. |
| What is the role of advocate? | Protect your client human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting those rights if the need arises. |
| What is the role of educator? | You explain concepts and facts about health, demonstrate procedures such as self care activities, reinforse learning or client behavior, and evaluate the clients progress in learning. |
| What is the role of communicator? | Communication is essential fro all nursing roles and activities. |
| What is the role of manager? | Coordinates the activities of members of the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel, policy and budgetary responsibilty for a specific nursing unit or agency. |
| What is an APN? | Advanced Practice Nurse. The most independently functioning nurse. Has a masters degree in nursing, advaced education in pharmacology and physical assessment, and certication and expertise in specialized areas of practice. |
| What is a CNS? | Clinical Nurse specialist. An APN with nursing expertise in a specialized area of practice and works in any practice setting. |
| What is a NP? | Nurse Practitioner. Provides health care to group of clients, usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community based setting. |
| What is a CNM? | Certified Nurse Midwife. Educated in midwifery and certified by American College of Nurse Midwives. |
| What is a CRNA? | Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesist. A RN wit advanced education in a nurse anesthesia accredited program. |
| What is a nurse Educator? | works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development dept. of health care agencies. and client education dept. |
| What is a nurse administrator? | Manages client care and the delivery of specific nursing services within a healthcare agency. |
| What is a nurse researcher? | Investigates problems to improve nursing care and to further define and expand the scope of nursing practice. |
| What is the purpose of the ANA? | Improve standards of health and the availabilty of healthcare, to foster high standarsd of nursing, and to promote the professional development and general economic welfare of nurses. They are also lobbyists. |
| What is a professional organization? | Deals with issues of concern to those practicing in the profession. i.e NLN, ANA, ICN, NSNA, CSNA. |
| What is the NLN? | National league for nursing. advances excelence in nursing education to prepare nurses to meet the needs of a diverse population in a changing healthcare envrionment. |
| What is the ICN? | Internation council of nurses. Parallel those of the ANA; promoting national association of nurses, improving standards of practice, seeking a higher status for nurses, and providing an international power base for nurses. |
| What is the NSNA? | National student nurse asscociation. |
| What is the CSNA? | Canadian student nurses association. |
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