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Excelsior College Transition Course

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show Florence Nightingale  
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Who organized the American Red cross and was responsible for relief operations during the Civil War?   show
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show Dorothea Dix  
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Conductor of undergrown railraod who assisted Clara Barton to tend to wounded soldiers during the Civil War.   show
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show Sojourner Truth  
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Radical changes in nursing education, reduced student work day from 10 to 8 and eliminated FREE private duty services   show
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Created FNS Frontier Nursing Service- 1st midwifery training school   show
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did a study which resulted in establishment of associate degree nursing education   show
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Nursing leader and women's right activist giving women the right to vote- also a key figure in community nursing and introduced nuring in schools   show
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show Virginia Henderson  
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show Mary Mahoney  
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a psychiatric nurse- described Nurse- Client relationships   show
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show Melinda Ann (Linda) Richards  
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show Margaret Sanger  
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show Lillian Wald  
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Religion- *R* Protestant Churches- women subordinate to men- nurse most menial of servants   show
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show Order of the Deaconesses  
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show Sisters of Mercy  
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sisters that visited pt's in homes, hosp, and poorhouses and asylums. Deveoped educational programs for Nurses   show
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show Monastic Orders  
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Founded during Crusades- staffed 2 hospitals in Jerusalem   show
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show Crimean War  
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Phiadelphia Dispensary was fomed for free pt care, homes and barns were makeshift hosp, women left during war were there to care for sick and injured Controlled disease and smallpox vaccination was given   show
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Public saw the need for trained nurses, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth tended to the soldiers   show
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Nursing schools were already established and Isabel Robb developed a plan for managing nurses   show
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show World War 1  
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Bolton Act created the US Caet Nurse Corps. Nurses got full military commission, post war- Hill Burton Act   show
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show Korean War and Vietnam conflicts  
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show Gulf War- Afganistan- Iraq  
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show ICN- International Council of Nurses  
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For RN'S- Is involved in all issues that nursing has confronted with Legislation, Collective bargaining, advancement of profession   show
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Was formed to assist collegiate schoold of nursing to improve higher education for nursing.   show
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show CCNE- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education  
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Provides a legal regulatory bodies of all states to act together re: boards, exams, licensing   show
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show NLN- National League for Nursing  
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Baccalaureate program honorary organization for exceptional standards   show
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show AAN- American Academy of Nursing  
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Student nursing organization   show
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4 Purposes to 1. speak for associate degree nursing education and practice 2. Reinforce the value of that degree 3. maintain endorsement for grads with associte degree, 4. retain the RN exam for assocaite degree grads   show
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Organization for nurses who design, facilitate, and manage care   show
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show NANDA- North American Nursing Diagnosis Association  
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Misc Others-   show
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Free or low cost screens & health info   show
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Different financial situations change ins. coverage, ability to get care and what type of care   show
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show HMO- Health Maintenance Organizations  
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Healthcare provided in defined demo area. Is centered to individuals and family   show
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show Managed Care  
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used by HMO's & PPO's to keep costs low - usually seen as a way to deny tx   show
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wearable/ implantable monitors for medical conditions   show
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IVD computer analysis speeds diagnosis ( blood, urine, body tissue samples)   show
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show Drug Admin  
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3 types of health organizations   show
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contact with pt. is minutes to hours   show
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Provides care to pts where stay is less than 24 hours   show
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care is more than 24 hours but less than 30 days   show
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longer than 30 days for chronic illness may be for a lifetime or recovery period   show
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show Government Owned facilities (ex-VA)  
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investor owned and operated by corp or stockholders   show
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Operated by universities, religious organizations, fraternal groups. All profit above that needed for maint. and operations must go to improvement and growth   show
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show Acuity  
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type of service that is often a special unit in a hospital usually less than 30 days   show
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service that does observation, assessment, teaching and training, direct skilled nursing such as tube feedings, vents, RN must be in charge of care   show
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refers to care focused on meeting deficits of ADL's   show
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show Hospice Care  
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designed to restore health and function   show
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Care is provided and then the patient is discharged soon after   show
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care that is provided outside of a health care clinic, hosp. usually provided in the home   show
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show General or Community Hospital  
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Level 1 Trauma Center, Burn Center, Oncology, and other levels of care   show
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show Specialty Hosp  
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Places offering healthcare must ne approved by the gov't agency, usually the Dept of Health they need this cert   show
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show Medicare/ Medicaid Certification  
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show JCAHO- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare ORganizations  
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show CHAP- Community Health Accreditation Program  
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show National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)  
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She used her contacts with powerful men in govt to obtain supplies and personnel needed to care for the wounded during Crimean War   show
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show Hannah Ropes  
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show Isabel Hampton  
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show Nurse Practice Act  
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"The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery"   show
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show Virginia Henderson  
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show Nursing Theory  
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A theory is a set of concepts & propositions that provides an orderly way to view phenomena.   show
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show BLANK  
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Nursing is the synthesis of many theories.   show
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show BLANK  
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Nursing is always in a state of change.   show
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Nursing knowledge continues to expand in a multiplicity of ways.   show
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show empirical (scientific), aesthetic (creative) knowledge, personal knowledge and ethical knowledge.  
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a particular viewpoint or perspective "a worldview"   show
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show Meta-paradigm  
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show THEORIES  
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these are mental images of a phenomenon   show
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show PROPOSITIONS  
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show Conceptual framwork  
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a symbolic representation of a theory, shown through diagrams, words, or notations,   show
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show Grand theory  
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This is used to address more narrowy defined phenomena and can be used to suggest an intervention   show
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A meta-paradigm in nursing has 4 areas   show
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show PERSON  
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The continuum of wellness to terminal illness in the meta-paradigm   show
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The place or community where care is provided in a meta-paradigm   show
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show NURSING  
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show empirical, aesthetic, personal, ethical  
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She is recognized as the first nurse theorist. She describe nursing as both an art and science. She recommeded adjusting the environment to improve a person's health.   show
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She described 4 conservatin principles for nursing, specifically the conervation of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social stability. She also stated people need nursing when they are unable to care for themselves.   show
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show Jean Watson  
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She developed the theory of the Science of Unitary Human Beings, in which the person is a unified whole, greater than the sum of parts.   show
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show Rosemary Parse  
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This is an example of middle-range theory and uses 11 functional health patterns to provide a framework for assessment, nursing dx, and a plan of car.   show
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Hildegard Peplau- Peplau's interpersonal relations model *environment not defined   show
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show P- complete being who has 14 fundamental needs E- aggregate the external conditions & influences H- Requires independence 7 interdependence Must be able to do the 14 basics unaided N- to assist those who cannot do by themselves  
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14 funadmental needs   show
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show P- Human beings are caring & capable of feeling concern E- *none* H- a state of well being that is culturally defined, valued & practiced N- uses problem solving approach, 3 models of action- see next card  
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3 models of action in Leininger's theory   show
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show P- a unity who can be viewed as functioning biologically, symbolically & socially, and who initiates & performs on thier own to maintain health and well being. H- Well being is used in the sense of the person's percieved condition of existance.  
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Orem's theory regarding Nursing   show
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Roger's science of unitary human beings- Martha E. Rogers   show
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Roger's theory regarding Nursing   show
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show P- a bio-psycho-social being who is constantly intereacting with the environment & who has 4 modes of adaption H- a state & process of being & becoming an integrated & whole oerson. N- care & well being of humans, rooted in beliefs about the human person  
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Roy's 4 modes of adaption based on   show
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Watson's human caring theory- Jean Watson   show
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show Nursing combines the research process witht he problem solving approach & is concerned with promoting and restoring health, preventing illness & caring for the sick.  
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show P- 3 interacting systems, the personal systems is unified complex whole self who percieves, thinks, desires, imagines & decides, identifies goals & selects means to achieve it. E- is constantly changing H- continuous adaption to stress to achieve max pote  
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King's theory re: nursing-   show
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King;s 3 interacting systems   show
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show P- the total person is mad eof physiologic, socio-cultural & developmental varibales. E- people maintain varying degrees of harmony & balance H- Illness = lack of harmony among parts & subparts of the system  
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show unique profession in that it is concerned with all variables affecting an individual's response to stressors, which are intra, inter & extra personal in nature. THe nurse helps the pt through primary, secondary & tertiary prevention to maintain stability  
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Florence Nightingale's Environmental theory   show
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Florenece Nighingale's major concepts of health   show
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show Provision of optimal conditions to enhace the person's reparative process from being interupted.  
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show Standards of nursing practice  
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who sets the standards for nursing practice   show
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laws in each state that are instrumental in defining the scope of nursing practice. They protect public health, safety and welfare. State boards of nursing oversee this stautory law   show
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show they outline the nursing care to be provided. It is a set of actions the nurse will implement to resolve nursing problems identified by assessment.  
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show Intermediate- it guides in th ongoing provision of nursing cre & assists in the evaluation of that care.  
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show -It focuses on actions which are designed to solve or minimize the existing problem -it is a product of a delibrate systematic process -it relates to the future -it is based upon identifiable health & nursing problems  
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show NANDA nursing dx with related factors & diagnostic criteria -nursing outcome classifications with specified outcomes to be achieved including deadlines -Nursing intervention classifications with specified interventions  
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show Critical Pathway  
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a plan of care based on standards that reflect optimal timing of sequential steps provided by all members of the team or managing chronic health problems   show
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show -represents a sequential, interdisciplinary, minimal practice standard for specific pt population -provides flexibility to alter care to meet ind. pt needs -abbreviated format, broad prospective -phase or episode driven -ability to measure cause & eff  
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show integrating individualclinical expertise with the bst available external clinical evidence from systematic research.  
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these may be established for the careof pts with specific illness, treatments, or surgical procedures.   show
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components of these gidelines   show
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ASSESS, LINK, SYNTHESIZE, DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND EVALUATE, INTEGRATE AND MAINTAIN   show
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show Research  
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show Quanitative research  
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show basic research  
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also called practical research, it is designed to directly influence or improve clinical practice   show
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4 types of quantitive research   show
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show Descriptive Research  
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show Correlational Research  
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show Quasi- Experimental Research  
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examines cause & effect relationships between variables under highly contolld conditions   show
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show Variable  
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show Dependent variable  
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show Independent variable  
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statement of relationships between the independent & dependent variables that the researcher expects to find   show
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show Data  
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show Instruments  
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the systematic collection & analysis of more SUBJECTIVE narrative materials   show
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4 types of Qualiative Research Methods   show
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show -ETHNOGRAPHY- examines issues of a culure that are of interest to nursing -HISTORICAL- examinesevents of te passt to generate understanding of nursing profession  
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show QUALITATIVE RESEARCH -Subjective -inductive * generates theories -NOT generalisable -Words  
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Keys to critiquing research repors   show
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show the pt's right to consent knowledgeably to participate in a study or tx without coercion or to refuse to participate without jeopardizing the care that he/ she will recieve. The right to confidentiality, & to be protected from harm  
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show Quality Management/ Quality Improvement 1st- actual results are compared with standard results then any deficiencies noted or identified serve to prompt recommendations for improvement  
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a medicare/ medicaid review organization that evals preadmission, pre-procedure, concurrent or retrospective review.   show
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Outcome Measures   show
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include infection rates & morbidity/mortality rates associated with specific hospitals & procedures.   show
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3 groups under HCUP- Healthcare Cost & Utilzation Project used to determine quality of care & access to care   show
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Long term quality indicators   show
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Purpose of this was to establish national goals to serve as a focus by individuals, organizaations, & the governmnt.   show
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National Health Indicators do this   show
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Risk Management   show
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In review & appraisal they do this   show
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They then- PROCESS EVAL which is the nature & sequence of activities carried out by nures implementing the nursing process. Criteria make explicit acceptable levels of erformance for nursing actions r/t pt assessment, dx, planning, implemntation, & eval   show
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LEGAL- addresses tje general welfare of the public. A violation of this law is a called a crime & is prosecuted by the gov't.   show
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This law regulated condeuct between private individuals or businesses & is enforced through the courts as damages or monetary compensation.   show
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show Statue  
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show Statutory Laws  
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is derived from common usage, custom or judical law. it is based on occurances of events, it is less clear & exact that stauutory law   show
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these are civil wrongs committed by 1 person against another person or their property. It can include physical harm, pychological harm, harm to livelyhood, or some other less tangible value such as harm to repuation.   show
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When the outcome is planned, although the person involved may not have believed the outcome would be harmful   show
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show Unintentional tort. Most common cause of an unintentional tort is negligence.  
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show Negligence  
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show 1. harm must have occurred. 2. the negligent person must have been in a situation where they held a duty toward the person harmed. 3. Breach of duty 4. the harm must be shown to have been caused by a breech of duty.  
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Breech of duty   show
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used to identify a specific type of negligence of a specifically trained or educated person in the performance of his/her job   show
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Therapeutic communication includes;   show
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Elements of Malpractice   show
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intentional & unlawful offer to touch a person in an offensive, insulting or physically intimidating manner.   show
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show BATTERY  
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invasion of privacy   show
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the willful & purposeful misrespresentaion that could cause or has caused loss or harm to a person or property.   show
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show Defamation of character  
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show libel  
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oral form of defamation   show
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making a person stay in a place against their wishes   show
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show - each state has different definitions. Nurses cannot leave their patients when they are needed.  
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an agreement between 2 parties or more, especially one that is written & enforceable by law   show
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Elements of a valid contract   show
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