1. Accountability - ANS-The ability to answer for one's actions
2. Active strategies of health promotion - ANS-Activities that depend on the patient's
motivation to adopt a specific health program
3. Acute illness - ANS-Usually reversible, has a short duration, and is often severe;
symptoms appear abruptly, are intense, and often subside after a relatively short period
4. Adult Day Care Centers - ANS-Provide a variety of health and social services to specific
patient populations who live alone or with family in the community
5. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - ANS-Most independently functioning
nurse; has masters degree in nursing
6. Advocacy - ANS-Support of a particular cause
7. Advocate - ANS-You protect your patient's human and legal rights and provide
assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises; you act on behalf of your patient
and secure your patient's health care rights
8. ANA definition of nursing - ANS-The protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and 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
9. ANA Standards of Nursing Practice - ANS-Assessment
10. Diagnosis
11. Outcomes Identification
12. Planning
13. Implementation
14. Coordination of Care Health Teaching + Health Promotion
15. Consultation
16. Prescriptive Authority + Treatment
17. Evaluation
18. ANA Standards of Professional Performance - ANS-Ethics
19. Education
20. Evidence-Based Practice
21. Quality of Practice
22. Communication
23. Leadership
24. Collaboration
25. Professional Practice
26. Resources
27. Environmental Health
28. Assisted Living - ANS-Offers an attractive long-term care setting with an environment
more like home and greater resident autonomy
29. Autonomy - ANS-Refers to freedom from external control
, 30. Autonomy/Accountability - ANS-An essential element of professional nursing that
involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders
31. Back channeling - ANS-Reinforce your interest in what a patient has to say through the
use of good eye contact and listening skills
32. EX. "all right" "go on" "uh huh"
33. Beneficence - ANS-Refers to taking positive actions to help others
34. Benner's Model of Novice to Expert - ANS-Novice
35. Advanced beginner
36. Competent
37. Proficient
38. Expert
39. Burnout - ANS-The condition that occurs when perceived demands outweigh perceived
resources; a state of physical and mental exhaustion that often affects health care
providers because of the nature of their work environment
40. Caregiver - ANS-You help patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and
symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing
process
41. Casuistry (case-based reasoning) - ANS-Turns away from conventional principles of
ethics as a way to determine best actions and focuses instead on an "intimate
understanding of particular situations"
42. Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP) - ANS-Are prepared to provide direct client care in
primary care settings, focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis,
and treatment of common health problems
43. Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) - ANS-An APRN who is also educated in midwifery and is
certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives
44. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) - ANS-An APRN with advanced
education from a nurse anesthesia-accredited program
45. CHAPTER 1 - ANS-Nursing Today
46. CHAPTER 16 - ANS-Nursing Assessment
47. CHAPTER 2 - ANS-Health Care Delivery System
48. CHAPTER 22 - ANS-Ethics & Values
49. CHAPTER 6 - ANS-Health and Wellness
50. Chronic illness - ANS-Persists, usually longer than 6 months, is irreversible, and affects
functioning in one or more systems
51. Clara Barton - ANS-Founded the American Red Cross in 1881
52. Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) - ANS-An APRN who is an expert clinician in a
specialized area of practice
53. Close-ended questions - ANS-Form of question that limits a respondent's answer to one
or two words
54. Code of Ethics - ANS-The philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the
principles you will use to provide care to your patients; set of guiding principles that all
members of a profession accept
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