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Dimensions of Nursing FINAL Study Guide, Dimensions
of Nursing Test 2, Rasmussen Dimensions of Nursing Test
2 Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Evidence Based Practice - Answer✔️✔️-is the practice of nursing in which
interventions are based on data from research that demonstrates that they are
appropriate and successful.
Referent Power - Answer✔️✔️-dependent on establishing and maintaining a close
personal relationship with someone, either client or colleague.
Expert Power - Answer✔️✔️-derives from the amount of knowledge, skill, or
expertise that an individual or group has
Reward Power - Answer✔️✔️-depends on the ability of one person to grant another
some type of reward for specific behaviors or changes in behavior
Coercive Power - Answer✔️✔️-the ability to reprimand, withhold rewards, and
threaten punishment.
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Legitimate Power - Answer✔️✔️-depends on a legislative or legal act that gives the
individual or organization a right to make decisions that they might not otherwise
have the authority to make
Collective Power - Answer✔️✔️-often used in a broader context than individual
client care and is the underlying source for many other sources of power
Hippocrates - Answer✔️✔️-Beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead
of on appeasing the gods. He emphasized treating the whole client, mind, body,
spirit, and environment and making diagnoses on the basis of symptoms rather than
on an isolated idea of a disease. He was also concerned with ethical standards for
physicians, expressed in the now-famous Hippocratic Oath.
Hippocratic Oath - Answer✔️✔️-One of the oldest binding documents in history, and
is still held sacred by physicians: to treat the ill to the best of one's ability, to
preserve a patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation,
and so on.
Florence Nightingale - Answer✔️✔️-the founder of modern nursing, in 1851, she
attended a 3-month nurses' training program at the church-run hospital in
Kaiserswerth, Germany. Took a group of 37 volunteer nurses into the battlefield
area, in the Crimean War, and after 6 months of the nurses help, mortality rate
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dropped from 42 percent to 2 percent. Nightingale supervised 125 nurses in several
large hospitals, and advocated a program of at least 1 year that included basic
biological science, techniques to improve nursing care, and supervised practice.
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery - Answer✔️✔️-Opened in
1860 and began to train nurses, advocated health maintenance and the concept that
nursing was both an art and a science, and taught that each person should be
treated as an individual and that nurses should meet the needs of clients, not the
demands of physicians. Many early graduates went on to become important
nursing leaders, and Nightingale's ideas resurfaced and are now evaluated in the
light of a rapidly changing health-care system.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - Answer✔️✔️-her conviction that nurses needed a
solid theoretical education, she dedicated her life to raising the standards of nursing
education in the United States, and was the first as director of the Illinois Training
School for Nurses, headed the new Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb Facts - Answer✔️✔️-Formed the American Society of
Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses and served as chairwoman. In
1896, she became the first president of a group called the Nurses Associated
Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which would later become the
American Nurses Association (ANA). Robb helped develop the still the official
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journal called the American Journal of Nursing, the first professional journal for
nursing.
Lillian Wald - Answer✔️✔️-Opened a storefront health clinic called the Henry Street
Settlement in New York. Wald became a dedicated social reformer, an efficient
fundraiser, and an eloquent speaker, and advocated wellness education.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company saw value in her beliefs and asked her to
organize its nursing branch, and she founded the American Red Cross's Town and
Country Nursing Service.
Lillian Wald Facts - Answer✔️✔️-She founded and became the first president of the
National Organization for Public Health Nursing, was the first to place nurses in
public schools, and current proposals for health-care reform often include her ideas
about public health nursing, independent clinics, and health maintenance.
Lavinia Lloyd Dock - Answer✔️✔️-wrote the first medication textbook for nurses,
and was a lobbyist for equal rights for women
Annie Goodrich - Answer✔️✔️-appointed as state inspector of nursing schools,
many writings about nursing education and her experiences with military nursing
have been a great contribution to the nursing profession
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