Week 1 & 2 Flashcards
(50 cards)
What is a comprehensive assessment?
It provides baseline client data.
What are the 9 essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice?
1) liberal education
2) leadership
3) evidence based practice
4) information management and technologies
5) policy, finance and regulatory environments
6) communication and collaboration
7) clinical prevention
8) professionalism
9) generalist nurse practice who can work in a variety of environments
What is a focused assessment?
It targets a particular need or health concern.
What is an ongoing assessment?
It is systematic monitoring and observation related to a specific problem.
What is a nursing diagnosis?
Problem statement, etiology (r/t) and defining characteristics (AEB).
What are the three types of nursing diagnosis?
Actual nursing diagnosis
Risk nursing diagnosis
Wellness nursing diagnosis
Actual nursing diagnosis
A problem exists
Risk nursing diagnosis
Indicates the problem doesn’t exist, but risk factors exist.
Wellness nursing diagnosis
Indicates the patient’s desire to attain a higher level of wellness in some areas.
What is the difference between a goal and an intervention?
Goals are patient centered (what the patient will do) and interventions are nurse centered (what the nurse will do).
List maslow’s hierarchy of needs:
Self actualization Esteem Love/belonging Safety Physiological
What are the three types of intervention?
Independent
Interdependent
Dependent
Independent intervention:
Initiated by nurse
Interdependent intervention:
Implemented in conjunction with others (refer to physical therapy)
Dependent intervention:
Require a physician’s order
Evaluation
Determine whether goals were or were not met and why.
What is the universal sign of medicine?
The staff of Asclepius.
Wh is the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
Where and when what’s the first hospital in North America?
Mexico in 1524
What is Florence nightingale’s nickname?
Lady with the lamp
How old was Florence nightingale when she began nursing?
Age 31
What was nightingale the founder of?
Statistics statistics, the pie chart, self care and nursing.
Nursing research, ascetic techniques and political activism.
What happened in Scutari with Florence?
Florence led 38 nurses to a barracks hospital in 1858. Changed death rate from 42% to 2%.
Who was Mary seacole?
Jamaican nurse during Crimean war, but received no recognition. She was denied entrance to nightingale’s brigade, so she used her own money to provide care in the battle fields. Had extensive knowledge of tropical medicine.
