Unit 1 Flashcards

Question

When was the First University Degree incorporated for nurses?

Answer 1

25 out of 170

Answer 2

Its the activities that nurses are educated and legally authorized to perform

Answer 3

Promote health and wellness Prevent illness Restore health Care for dying

Answer 4

* Perform and coordinate care for stable to complex clients in diverse practice domains and environments utilizing critical thinking, clinical judgment and leadership. * Possess the knowledge, skill and judgment to recognize, anticipate, assess and manage client care. * Assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic client care using assignment, collaboration and communication for ongoing care needs. * Support direct care nurses in the provision of safe, competent and ethical RN care

Answer 5

* Entry point for client accessing health services * Provide nursing care and treatment for those with health problems * Help clients to identify and use health resources both formally and informally * Act as a source of health and information * Involve clients in decisions about their health * Encourage clients to take action for their own health * Assist clients to determine own health needs * Involve clients in evaluating health services * Encourage use of community services

Answer 6

To provide safe, competent care commensurate with the nurse’s preparation, experience, and circumstances. To inform clients of the consequences of various alternatives and outcomes of care. To provide adequate supervision and evaluation of others for whom the nurse is responsible. The right to reasonable and prudent conduct from clients

Answer 7

To fulfill the obligations of contracted service with the employer. To respect the employer. To respect the rights and responsibilities of other healthcare providers. The right to adequate, safe working conditions. The right to compensation for services rendered. The right to reasonable and prudent conduct by other healthcare providers.

Answer 8

To protect the rights of the recipients of care. The right to respect of the nurse’s own rights and responsibilities by others. The right to physical safety.

Answer 9

Environment

Answer 10

Therapeutic Relationship

Answer 11

Independence of meeting fundamental needs

Answer 12

Energy, Caring, Transcendence

Answer 13

Lived experience and human becoming

Answer 14

Consciousness

Answer 15

Coping ability / mechanisms

Answer 16

Social processes

Answer 17

* Regulate entry into practice * Approve nursing education programs * Set standards of competent practice * Establish continuing competence or education * Draft bylaws for routine governance * Credentialing * Expansion of the role of the RN – advanced practice role

Answer 18

Use of RN. Nurse, RPN, NP which are titles protected by legislation

Answer 19

Standards of practice = values, expectations, performance benchmarks Scope of practice = activities that RN’s are educated and authorized to perform Continuing competence = ongoing evaluation of performance

Answer 20

Describes the required behavior of every nurse and is used to evaluate individual performance?

Answer 21

Minimum levels of expected registered nurse performance