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NUR 215 Exam 1 Questions And Accurate AnswersWhy is nursing considered a profession? - ANSWER Education, knowledge, selfless
concern for others, follow a code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability, and
responsibility, professional organizations
What is a nurse? - ANSWER Highly trained, well educated, caring, and competent.
6 basic skills - ANSWER critical thinking skills
Communication skills
Organizational skills
Leadership skills
Advocacy
technical skills
4 basic principals of nursing - ANSWER Advocacy
Responsibility
Accountability
Confidentiality
6 ethical principles of nursing - ANSWER autonomy, beneficence, fidelity, justice,
non-maleficence, veracity
autonomy-ANSWER the patient's right to make decisions regarding their medical care
w/out their healthcare provider attempting to sway their decisions
beneficence-ANSWER address the idea a nurse's actions should only promote good
, fidelity-ANSWER The nurse must be faithful to the promises they made as professionals
to provide quality care
justice-ANSWER the nurse needs to be impartial and fair to each patient
Non-Maleficence - nurse must be non-harming or do the least amount of harm to reach a
positive outcome
veracity - nurse must be truthful and honest
History of nursing- transformed to a women dominated profession in the 19th and 20th
century, had to become licensed in order to practice in the profession in 1903 in the US
angel of mercy - ANSWER religion based and shows nurses as self-sacrificing, moral
and noble
battle Ax - ANSWER showed nurses as cruel torturers, includes the bossy nurse Ratchet
naughty nurse - ANSWER shows nurses as sexy and risque women, seen as potential
dates for physicians
military nurse - ANSWER shows nurses on battlefield in uniform; striaghtedges
handmaiden nurse - ANS nurses as just a mere assistant that must assist the physician
at all costs
Florence Nightingale - ANS changed nursing from battle ax image to nursing as a
respectable profession, founder of modern nursing and the first nursing school
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