Nursing1000 final Flashcards

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Nursing knowledge

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Empirical
Aesthetic
Ethical
Personal
Emancipatory *
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Types of theories

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Grand
Middle Range
Despcreptive
Perscriptive

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Theories

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Nightingale: affect the healing of the patient with environment
McGill: strengths based, family involved
Watson: transpersonal care
Swanson: preserve human dignity, art and caring US

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Steps of Swanson

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Maintaining belief
Knowing
Being with
Doing for 
Enabling
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Evidence Informed practice

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Clinical question
Collect best evidence
Critique
Integrate 
Evaluate the practice/decision change
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Ethics

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Providing safe compassionate and ethical care
Promoting health
Respecting informed decision making
Preserving dignity
maintaining privacy
Promoting justice
Being accountable
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Nursing process

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Systematic approach

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Steps of nursing process

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Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
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Critical thinking

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Basic
Complex
Commitment

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Critical thinking steps

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Scientific knowledge base
Experience
Competencies
Standards
Attitudes
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Professionalism

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Specialized body of knowledge
Code of ethics
Self regulation
Professional accountability

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What does professionalism look like?

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Behaviour

Appearance

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What does self regulation mean?

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RN’s are accountable for their own practice, it is a privilege not a right

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What is the CRNNS accountable for?

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Ensuring that each nurse carries out the commitment to the public.

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What is the CRNNS’s role?

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Register, monitor and discipline nurses

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Reflective practice

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Evaluation
Knowledge of context
Outcomes
Critical thinking

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What is safety culture?

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The way safety is perceived in an organization, how the system works when people aren’t around

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The 3 main points of safety culture?

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Physical
Physiological
Patient

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Infection control?

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Questions on hand hygiene

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How can we ensure mistakes are not made?

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Pass offs to nurses
Full documentation
Communication and Collaboration with others

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Aspects of patient safety?

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Communication
Collaboration
Teamwork
Competence

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What aspects have to do with environmental safety?

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Buildings
Equipements
Lighting, etc

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What is primary health care?

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Everyone is entitled to it, includes all systems and levels of health such as:
Illness prevention
Diagnosis
Treatment

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Pillars of primary health care?

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Teams
Access
Information
Healthy living

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Health care system?

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Health promotion
Disease and injury prevention
Diagnosis and treatment
Rehabilitation
Supportive care
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What are some of the problems due to the health care system?

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Technologies

Equality and Quality

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What is person entered care?

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Involves the patient in the whole process, respecting and promoting their decision making, treating the person as unique

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Aspects of person entered care?

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Caring
Presence
Touch
Listening and knowing the patient 
Spiritual caring
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What is cultural safety?

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A way of being with the person, the fact that you are different from them
Acknowledging their background and culture

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Kinds of cultural safety?

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Mental
Physical
Spiritual
Emotional

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Difference between Equality and Equity?

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Equality= sameness
Equity= fairness
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What is therapeutic communication?

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Patient focused
Time limited
Knowing the patient as a unique individual
Can be structured

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What is collaboration?

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When multiple health care workers from difference backgrounds provide quality care

34
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Intra professional?

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Who share the same profession (RN, LPN)

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Inter professional?

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People from difference professions

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What are some values and beliefs?

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Attitudes
Conduct
Social responsibility

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What does CRNNS stand for?

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College of registered nurses of Nova Scotia

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What is the main job of the CRNNS?

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Annual license renewal
Commitment to being a life long learner
Continuing competence program

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What are standards of practice?

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Specific standards and policies that must be followed in practice through the CRNNS

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What does PICO question stand for?

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Patient population of interest
Intervention
Comparison of interest
Outcome