Intro to professional nursing Flashcards
Who made significant contributions to the nursing care of soldiers during the Crimean War?
Florence Nightingale contributed to the nursing care of soldiers in the Crimean war.
Who developed the theory of self-care needs?
Dorothea Orem
Who was the first American trained nurse? and who was the first African American trained nurse?
Linda Richards and Mary Mahoney
The nurse best performs health promotion by what activity?
preventing accidents in the home; health promotion focuses on maintaining normal status w/o consideration of diseases.
A nurse with 2 to 3 years of experience who has the ability to coordinate multiple complex nursing care demands is in which stage of Benner’s nursing expertise?
The competent nurse has some experience, which allows coordination of multiple complex nursing care demands that can be managed independently.
Nurses anticipate which social force will be most likely to significantly impact the future supply and demand for nurses?
Aging will impact the supply and demand for nurses. The aging population increases demand while retiring nurses and nurse faculty will impact supply.
The nurse is undergoing continuing education by doing what?
Continuing education refers to formalized experiences designed to enlarge the knowledge or skills of practitioners. Ex: completing a workshop on ethical aspects of nursing.
The nurse, when critiquing a published nursing research article, is responsible for doing what?
Evaluate whether the findings are applicable to the nurse’s specific clients. Since the primary purpose of research is to improve the quality of client care, the nurse should determine if published research results are applicable to the nurses specific client population. Public studies have flawed designs, data collection. or analysis.
“A group of related ideas or statements” is best defined by what?
Conceptual framework
A belief system
philosophy
A supposition or system of ideas proposed to explain a given phenomenon is a:
Theory
A pattern of shared understandings and assumptions about reality and the world is:
Paradigm
An 85 year old client in a nursing home tells a nurse, “because the doctor was so insistent, I signed the papers to e part of that research study. I was afraid he would not continue taking care of me if I didn’t agree. He seemed so excited about this project.” Which right of the client was violated?
The right of self-determination means that subjects feel free of constraints, coercion, or any undue influence to participate in a study. There is no information given to indicate other rights have been violated.
What provides a good explanation for describing nursing as a practice discipline?
Nursing focuses on performing the professional role; practice disciplines are fields of study in which the central focus is performance of a professional role.
Person, environment, health, and nursing constitute the metaparadigm for nursing because of what?
They can be utilized in any setting when caring for a client; are relevant when providing care for any client in any setting whether in the hospital, at home, in the community, or elementary school systems. These elements can be used to understand diseases, conduct and apply research, develop nursing theories, as well as implement the nursing process which is one part of the metaparadigm.
Scope of nursing practice?
Promotion, prevention, restoration, and caring of the dying
Professionalism
set of attributes, way of life- maintaining a specific character, spirit, or methods
Characteristics of nursing:
confidentiality, integrity, professional commitment, critical thinking, compassionate, and assessment
3 essential components of professional nursing:
Care, cure, and coordination
4 major concepts central to nursing theory:
person, environment, health, and nursing
Self-care/self-care deficit model theorist:
Orem
Florence nightingale “Lady with the lamp”
founder of nursing, nursing education, first scientist-theorist, upper british family, felt her mission in life was among the sick, Crimean war, demonstrated effective public health measures, died of Crimean fever
Achievements and contributions of Florence Nightingale:
Established nursing, first scientist and theorist, statistican and researcher, advocated broad-based education, model for nursing education programs
Clara Barton
established American Red Cross, persuaded the Geneva convention to include humanitarian efforts in peace time.
Dorothea Dix
Unions supervisor of nurses in civil war army hospitals, responsible for recruitment of nurses, and supervised nursing care of all women nurses working in army hospitals
World War II:
created acute shortage of nurses, “practical” nurses, aids, technicians, medical specialties developed
Vietnam:
90% of 11,000 American military women stationed in Vietnam were nurses, most volunteered immediately after graduation, and youngest medical services group in war
Linda Richards
American first trained nurse, graduated from New England Hospital for women and children (1873), Introduced nursing notes and doctors orders, and initiated nursing uniforms
Mary Mahoney:
first African American nurse, graduated from new England hospital for women and children (1879)
