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NRSG 100 Study Guide Questions With Complete Solutions
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NRSG 100 Study Guide Questions With Complete Solutions
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NRSG 100 Study Guide Questions WithComplete Solutions
American Nurses Association (ANA)
Provides framework for all nurses and clarifies what nursing involves.
Nursing Scope of Practice
What the nurse does, what the nurses responsibilities are, where and when client care is to be performed, and why and how client
care is achieved.
Nurses Practice Act (NPA)
Establishes common definitions, rules, and regulations to guide the nurse.
Code of Ethics
Ethical decision making, value system, duty, obligation to client,
and upholding profession.
Florence Nightingale
Crimean war, pioneered first correlation between infection and unclean conditions - evidence based practice.
Recognized importance of careful data collection in form of note
taking and hand drawn graphs and charts. Reported data to authorities to create change, providing foundation for current practice in infection control strategies.
Nursing Education
Level of programs with varied learning experiences - ASN, BSN, MSN, DNP, PhD
Health Literacy
Clients' knowledge about their own health management and decision-making ability.
Holistic Nursing Care
Providing care for the whole person, mental emotional, physical,
spiritual.
Respect unique differences of all individuals
Trusted to address their diverse clients with integrity, honesty, and compassion - regardless of nurses feelings/beliefs.
Nursing Roles
Conduit between clients and health care system, ensuring clients
are receiving care they need to safely navigate the healthcare system and to achieve a safe outcome.
Care provider, case manager, researcher, educator, leader, manager, change agent.
Mobility Motion or movement, muscles, skeleton, and nerves in unison.
Restoring mobility that is lost - to ambulate a patient.
Four properties of Muscles
C - contractibility - shorten and relax
E - excitability - receive/respond to nerve/hormone stimulation
E - extensibility - ability to stretch/extend
E - elasticity - bounce back/recoil
Main muscle types
Cardiac - located in heart functions involuntarily
Smooth - blood vessels and visceral organs - involuntary
Skeletal - attached to skeleton, tendons/bones, voluntary
Types of movement
Flexion, extension, abduction, abduction, rotation, pronation, supination, circumspection, inversion, version, dorsiflexion, plantar flexion.
Postural alignment
Lordosis - lower back curve, pelvis anteriorly
Kyphosis - upper back rounded, pelvic tilt forward
Flat back - loss in curvature
Sway back - back extends back while lower back curves in and pelvis tilts forward.
Scoliosis - c or s shaping in back
Pressure injury Stage 1
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