NUR2058- Dimensions of Nursing Practice Exam-Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified/ Latest Update 2024/2025
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What are the characteristics of a profession? -️️High intellectual level, individual responsibility,
specialized knowledge, higher education, public service, autonomy, organized representation, code
of ethics, professional identity, competency and license
What is the importance of a speciali...
NUR2058- Dimensions of Nursing Practice Exam-Questions with
Correct Answers/ Verified/ Latest Update 2024/2025
What are the characteristics of a profession? - ✔️✔️High intellectual level, individual responsibility,
specialized knowledge, higher education, public service, autonomy, organized representation, code
of ethics, professional identity, competency and license
What is the importance of a specialized body of knowledge in a profession? - ✔️✔️It distinguishes a
profession from other occupations
What is the importance of a code of ethics in a profession? - ✔️✔️It guides members in their
practice
What is the purpose of a professional organization? What are the benefits of joining a professional
organization? Know the following professional organizations and their contribution: National League
of Nursing (NLN), American Nurses Association (ANA0, The National Student Nurses' Association
(NSNA), & Grassroots Organizations - ✔️✔️- group of people banding together to achieve a specific
purpose
- By working together for a specific purpose, an association or organization amplifies its impact; and
by developing a strategic plan, it focuses that impact to achieve certain results
· NLN (National League for Nursing)
advances excellence in nursing education to prepare nurses to meet the needs of a diverse
population in a changing health care environment.
· American Nurses Association (ANA)
Professional organization that represents all registered nurses
· NSNA (national student nurses association)
is an independent legal corporation established in 1953 to represent the needs of nursing students.
The main purpose of the NSNA is to help maintain high standards of education.
· Grassroots Organization
Local nursing groups that are trying to solve a particular problem.
What are diploma schools? What are some of the benefits of diploma school nurses? - ✔️✔️-Types
of schools that were closely associated with hospitals and could provide a source of free or
inexpensive labor in the form of nursing students.
, What role did Christianity play regarding healthcare? - ✔️✔️-Following the teachings of Jesus
meant that caring for the sick, poor, and disadvantaged was of primary importance
What are the major nursing symbols affiliated with the nursing profession? Who or what was the
influence for these symbols? - ✔️✔️- Lamp
· Often represents the eternal flame that dispels darkness and evil
- Nursing pin
· Acknowledges nursing graduates as belonging to a unique group and identifies them as a new
member of the health-care community
- Cap
Primary purpose was to keep the nurse's long hair form getting in the way, but it also identified
nurses who had graduated
Know the contributions for each of the following nursing leaders: Nightingale, Hampton Robb, Wald,
Dock, Goodrich, & Ford - ✔️✔️- Florence Nightingale
- Regarded as the founder of modern nursing
- Realized the only way to improve health care was to educate women to be reliable, high-quality
nurses
- Believed that nursing schools should be run by nurses and independent of hospitals and physicians
- Advocated a program of at least 1 yr that included biological science, techniques to improve
nursing care, and supervised practice
- Isabel Adams Hampton Robb
- became the first director of the Illinois Training School for Nurses
- advocated for the reduction of long training hours
- headed new John Hopkins Training School for Nurses
- brought leaders together to form the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for
Nurses, the precursor to the NLN
- 1896 became the first president of Nurses Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada, which later
became the ANA
- Helped develop the American Journal of Nursing, the official journal of the ANA
- Lillian Wald
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