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USI Nursing 246 Final Exam Study Guidewith correct answers
Florence Nightingale - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Founder of modern nursing
Lady with the Lamp
Crimean War Nurse
Pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light.
Additional warmth, quiet, and diet
Clara Barton - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American
Red Cross
Dorthea Dix - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Helped the mentally ill receive quality healthcare
Helped the Native Americans
Harriet Tubman - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Cared for sick and wounded black soldiers.
One of the first black nurses
Mary Mahoney - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ First professionally trained African American nurse
Isabella Hampton Robb - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Founder of the ANA and first nurse author of
a nursing textbook
First nursing theorist.
Virginia Henderson - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ the patient is an individual who requires help to
reach independence
,Different levels of nursing education - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ LPN: Licensed Practical Nurse- 1
year of schooling
RN: Registered Nurse- 2 years of schooling
RN, BSN: Registered Nurse with bachelor- 4 years of schooling
APRN: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse: 6+ years of schooling
MSN prepared APRN roles - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Nurse midwife: Works under an OBGYN,
delivers healthy pregnancies, and provides female care
Nurse Practitioner: Worked under MD or DO, provides family care to healthy children and adults.
Nurse Anesthetist: works under an anesthesiologist and provides anesthesia to patients
Clinical Nurse Specialist: Have the same roles as a Nurse practitioner but typically teach or do higher
management
Autonomy and Accountability - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Autonomy: the patients right to make
decisions about themselves and their care
Accountability: the responsibility to do what is right
NLN - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ National League of Nursing: promotes excellence in nursing
education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce
ANA - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ American Nurses Association: political action, advocacy, social
policy, standards of practice, code of ethics
IC4N - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Indiana Center for Nurses: workforce data sets, unites academia
and practice, nursing scholarships
NSNA - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ National Student Nurses Association: mentor students
preparing for initial licensure, convey standards, ethics, and skills needed to be responsible and
accountable
Sigma Theta Tau International - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Focuses on research, leadership and
global repository
, Main initiatives instigated by Future of Nursing Report - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ practice to full
extent of education
Higher levels of education
Full partners with physicians and other professionals
Policy and data collection of workforce
IOM 2011
How can student nurses impact National Patient Safety Goals - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ ID
patients, improve communication, Medication safety, use alarms safely, prevent infections, ID
patient safety risks, prevent surgical mistakes.
What is the purpose of nursing theories - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ They are specific concrete
concepts and propositions that purport to account for some phenomenon.
Nursing Metaparadigm - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Includes the person, health, environment, and
nursing. It is a large concept that envelops the nursing theories as a whole
Nursing Theorist: Watson - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Philosophy of Transpersonal Caring-Science
of Caring.
Through caring behaviors, nurses assist patients in attaining unity and harmony within mind-body,
and soul
Nursing Theorist: Orem - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Self-care deficit theory: nurses support their
patients so that patients can maintain self-care. Supports the importance of independence in patients
Nursing Theorist: Roy - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Roy Adaptation Model: Nurses help the patient
adapt to changes in physiological needs, self-concept, role function, and interdependent relations
during health and illness.
Nursing Theorist: Neuman - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Systems Theory: nurses promote stability
in the system by preventing stressors or promoting integrity in the lines of defense.
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