Professionalism Flashcards
What were the big accomplishments of Florence Nightingale?
- Practice Epidemiology (Tracking of the spreading of disease)
- Organized the first school of nursing
- Institutioned sanitization (handwashing) in battlefield hospitals
What is Florence Nightingale known as?
Lady with the lamp (Made rounds with a lamp to check on soldiers)
What was the history of nursing education?
Used to be Diploma programs from hospitals, has now shifted away from hospitals and gone to more academic settings
What’re the 3 ways to get RN education?
- 2-year associate degree
- 2-year diploma
- 4-year baccalaureate degree
What are the 3 Master’s degree for nursing.
- Education
- Management
- Advanced Practice
What are the 3 Doctoral degrees for nursing?
- Phd (Nursing Philosophy)
- DNP (Nursing Practice)
- DNS (Nursing Science)
What is nursing?
- An art to deliver care with kindness and respect for the patient
- Also a science based on the knowledge of the body and EVIDENCE-BASED practice
What are the important aspects of professionalism?
- Not just you performance of specific skills but also the responsibility and accountability to yourself and those around you
What is a “calling”?
A strong inner impulse toward a specific course of life or action to take accompanied by conviction or even divine influence
What is the ICN?
International Council of Nursing a group of nurses who advocate for nurses
What is the Nursing Process?
The foundation of clinical decision making for nurses
What is the order for the nursing process?
- Assessment: Collect information related to patient’s health and situation
- Diagnosis: Analyze the previously collected data to determine the current or potential problems of the pt
- Outcome identification: Identify the outcomes you want from a plan for the pt
- Planning: Develop a plan to attain the outcomes you want
- Implementation: Implement the plan that was developed
- Evaluation: Evaluate the progress toward the wanted outcomes
What are the ANA’s standards of professional nursing?
- Ethics
- Cultural Congruent Care: Practice equally throughout diversity
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Education: seek to learn all the time
- Evidence-based practice and research
- Quality
- Professional Evaluation
- Resource Utilization
- Environmental Health
What are the nursing Concepts and roles?
- Autonomy
- Accountability
- Caregiver
- Advocate
- Educator
- Communicator
- Manager
What are Benner’s stages of nursing proficiency?
- Novice: Goal oriented
- Advanced Beginner: Knows meaningful aspects of nursing
- Competent: Focused on situations, Not tasks
- Proficient: Can see whole situation, can assist new nurses
- Expert: Can anticipate worsening condition
