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Nursing 221 Exam 1What is a profession? - ANS-A vocation requiring knowledge of some department of
learning or science.
The body of persons engaged in an occupation of calling.
Characteristics of a Profession: - ANS-Specific body of knowledge.
Specific skills.
Administration of the highest quality care.
Performing care/duties safely.
Responsibility.
Accountability.
Characteristics of a Job: - ANS-Can typically be performed without "thought".
May or may not require an advanced degree.
May not have a specific body of knowledge.
Typically, does not have an association such as ANA.
May require less training than a profession.
May pay less than a profession.
May not have a "scope of practice".
What is nursing? - ANS-The protection, promotion, and optimization of health abilities,
prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations.
It is an art and a science.
Nursing as a profession: characteristics - ANS-Requires an extended education.
Requires a body of knowledge.
Provides a specific service.
Has autonomy.
Incorporates a code of ethics.
Principals of Practice: - ANS-Assessment.
Diagnosis.
Establishing outcomes.
Planning.
Implementation > evaluation
,Advanced Practice Nurses can: - ANS-Consult.
Prescribe.
Evaluate.
Standards of Professional Performance: - ANS-Continuing evaluation of own practice.
Collegiality.
Collaboration.
Ethics.
Research/EBP
Resource utilization.
Safety, cost, effectiveness.
Nursing is both an art and a science: - ANS-Artfully care for patients through
compassion, caring, and respect for individual dignity and personal values.
Scientifically care for patients through the nursing body of knowledge which is
constantly changing through new discoveries and innovations which result in changing
standards of care.
Clinical Judgements based on: - ANS-Body of knowledge, experience, standards of
care.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Ethics - ANS-the RN practices ethically
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Education - ANS-the RN attains knowledge competency that reflects current nursing
practice.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Evidence-based Practice and Research - ANS-the RN integrates evidence and
research findings into practice.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Quality of Practice - ANS-the RN contributes to quality nursing practice
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Communication - ANS-the RN communicates effectively in all areas of practice
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
,Leadership - ANS-the RN demonstrates leadership in the professional setting and the
profession
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Collaboration - ANS-the RN collaborates with health care consumer, family, and others
in the conduct of nursing practice
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Professional Practice Evaluation - ANS-the RN evaluates her or his own nursing
practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes,
rules, and regulations.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Resources - ANS-the RN uses appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing
services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance:
Environmental Health - ANS-the RN practices in an environment mentally safe and
healthy manner.
Rewards of Nursing: - ANS-Making a difference in patient's lives.
Helping your patient to remain independent.
Teaching your patient to care for themselves.
Educating the public about the role of a professional nurse.
Providing public health information.
Disaster relief.
Comfort for the dying.
Roles of the professional nurse: - ANS-autonomy (independence).
accountability.
Advocate.
Educator.
Communicator.
Manager.
Why study history? - ANS-History helps us to understand how we arrived at where we
are now.
It helps us to see mistakes and make improvements.
It helps us to see trends and modify practice.
It helps us to understand the social and intellectual origins of the discipline of nursing.
, Nursing leaders of the past are powerful influences of nursing practice today.
Historical Perspectives of Nursing: - ANS-Nurses have always been committed to meet
the needs of patients, families, and communities.
Nurses constantly respond and adapt to new challenges.
Nurses affect change by participating in policy making.
Nursing roles have changed to meet the changing healthcare landscape.
Florence Nightingale: - ANS-Author of "Notes on Nursing: what it is and what it is not".
Established the first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration.
Nursing is having "charge of somebody's health".
Developed first organized training program for nurses; The Nightingale Training School
for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
First practicing nurse epidemiologist.
Reduced risk of mortality for soldiers during Crimean War.
Civil War to Start of 20th Century: - ANS-Nursing growth in the US exploded.
Tended soldiers on the battlefield, changed dressings, met basic needs and provided
care for the dying.
Hospital nursing grew rapidly.
Clara Barton - ANS-Founder of the Red Cross in 1822.
Mother Bickerdyke - ANS-organized ambulances for wounded soldiers.
Harriet Tubman - ANS-assisted with the Underground Railroad
Mary Mahoney - ANS-first african american professionally trained nurse; noted leader.
Lilian Wald and Mary Brewster - ANS-established the Henry Street Settlement in 1893
which focused on healthcare needs of tenement residents.
(patients who were underprivileged).
Sigma Theta Tau - ANS-Established in 1922 as an honor society of nursing.
Twentieth Century - ANS-Movement toward development of scientific, research-based
defined body of nursing knowledge and practice.
Instrumental in moving nursing to universities.
Army and Navy Nurse Corps were established and nurses specialized (nurse
midwifery).
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