NUR2058 Dimensions in Nursing Practice Final Exam Concept Guide
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NUR2058 Dimensions in Nursing Practice Final Exam Concept Guide
Module 1 – Professional Nursing: History, Roles, Scope, and Standards of Practice Nursing Now Chapters, 2,
4, 5
• Quality and Safety Educating for Nurses (QSEN): (Chapter 4, pg 75; pg 390) is the process of
developing a framework for nursing schools; curriculum. Guidelines for what is taught in schools.
Client-centered Care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
Quality Improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
• Nurse Practice Acts: (Pg 100) is state legislation regulating the practice of nurses; defines scope of
practice and makes nurses accountable for their actions.
Establishes State Boards of Nursing (SBNs)
Defines SBN powers regarding practice within state
Rules written by SBNs become statutory law
Defines Scope of Practice for nurses
Ruling on who uses RN and LPN/LVN
Sets up application procedure for state licensure
Determines fees for licensure
Establishes requirements for renewal of licensure
Determines responsibility for any regulations governing expanded practice for nurses in that
state
• American Nurses Association: (pg 9) concerned with the quality of nursing practice in the daily
healthcare setting.
Reason for lack of power: less than 10% of all nurses are members at the national level
Gives modern definition of nursing (pg 20): Nursing is the protection, promotion, and
optimization of clients’ health and abilities, the prevention of disease and illness..
• Board of Nursing:
• Confidentiality: (pg188) Right of the client to expect the communication with a professional to remain
unshared with any other person unless a medical reason exists or unless the safety of the public is
threatened.
• Florence Nightingale: (pg 30) (1820-1910) viewed as person who elevated nursing to the status of a
profession.
Lady with a Lamp
She introduced the concept of research.
: Impact of Wars on Nursing (pg22-25)
Case Management:
, • (pg 81) holds health-care services together across practitioners, agencies, funding sources, locations,
and times. Refers to method of coordinating care with an individual client or on a system-wide basis.
• Professional Organizations
Module 2 – Professionalism in Nursing
Nursing Now Chapters 1, 17
• Professional Nursing Organizations: national nursing organizations need the participation of all nurses
in order to claim that they are truly representative of the profession. Allows the membership to speak
with one voice when making values about health care issues .
• Code of Ethics: (pg9) a written list of a profession’s values and standards of conduct. RN’s often face
ethical dilemmas which require an individual to make a choice between two equally unfavorable
alternatives.
• Registered Nurse: (pg10) scope of practice is admission assessment, iv meds, blood products, care
plans, client teaching, unstable clients, and acute diseases. Must perform the history and physicals.
• Licensed Practical Nurse: scope is vital signs, uncomplicated skills, chronic diseases, oral and IM, and
medications.
• Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP): CNA, monitor techs, PCT… scope of practice for CNA - feeding,
basic hygiene, stable clients, chronic diseases, ambulation….
Module 3 – Healthcare Delivery Settings Nursing Now Chapter 16
• Telehealth and Telemedicine: (pg369;444) service where nurses answer the phone, supply answers to
health-related questions, advise callers on how to handle nonurgent health situations; is the use of
electronic information and communication technologies to provide and support health care when
distance separates the physician and client.
• Medicaid: (pg362) federally funded, state-operated medical assistance program for people with low
incomes. Individual states determine eligibility and benefits. Finances a large portion of maternal and
child care for the poor; reimburses for nurse midwifery and other advanced practice nursing;
reimburses long-term care facility funding.
• Medicare: (pg362) federally funded national health insurance program in the US for people older than
65 yrs. Part A provides basic protection for medical, surgical, and psychiatric care costs based on
diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Part B is a voluntary medical insurance plan that covers physician and
certain outpatient services. Part D is an unfunded insurance for medications.
• Private Insurance: (pg362) offered through employers or other organizations. Some employers offer
only one type of health insurance plan. Others may allow you to choose from more than one plan.
usually costs more
Traditional Private Insurance: traditional fee-for-service plan. Payment, computed after
services are provided, is based on the number of services used. Policies typically expensive;
most policies have deductibles that clients must meet before insurance pays.
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