Nursing 254 Chapters 1, 5 Review Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 254
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NUR 254
Profession definition a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation
Factors that impact nursing practice legislation Patient demands and expectations Health care cost Patient outcomes cause shift in practice Changes and demands of practice environment
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Nursing 254 Chapters 1, 5 Review
Questions and Correct Answers
Profession definition ✅a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and
intensive academic preparation
Factors that impact nursing practice ✅legislation
Patient demands and expectations
Health care cost
Patient outcomes cause shift in practice
Changes and demands of practice environment
What is entry into practice ✅basic level of education for professional nursing
Who is licensing to practice? ✅all nurses are: finish BSN to take licensing exam: state
board of nursing
3 paths of a RN ✅BSN: 4 year degree at college/university
ADN: 2 year degree from community/technical school
Diploma: 3 year degree program affiliated with hospital
Largest growth of nursing jobs is predicted to be where?? ✅OUT of the hospital
Locations of nursing profession ✅physician or nurse offices or clinics
-free standing emergcy and surgical center
Ambulatory care ✅a nurse's practice setting
Linda aiken's study: better professsional nurse staffing improves quality and safety of
patient care ✅With BSN or higher degree, had better patient outcomes
Why define nursing? ✅-to show who nurses are and what nurses do
-help set parameters (boundaries) on nursing practice
-distinguish nursing as a profession
-guide policy at local, state, and national levels
-guide curriculum and research agendas
Clarity work, other people can understand differences
(CNA vs nurse)
Make nursing work visible to public and policy makers
Who regulates nursing outlines? ✅state level at state legislature by state board of
nursing
, Why define nursing? ✅if we cannot name it, we cannot ....AND not put into public
policy
-affects nursing practice, who we are and what we do and others are clear on it too
(ANA what is nursing)
Florence nightingale's definition of nursing ✅-Made reference to the environment as it
relates to care of the patient
-Referenced the importance of nutrition (diet) in the care of the patient
So environment and diet in care of patent
-foreshadow therapeutic environment and health promotion and maintenance
Mother of modern nursing ✅florence nightingale: difference between nursing care vs
ley person's care
State nurse practice acts ✅contains legal definition of nursing in a particular state
-regulated by state legislature
-drafted by state nurse associations, boards of nursing, and legislator
-nurses must be familiar with their state's practice act
NC practice act ✅dymanic discipline.. Implementing of treatment
Professional identity development-professional socialization ✅learning to "think like a
nurse"
Develop professionalism
Internalizing new knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors, values, and ethical standards
-socialization: goal is to develop professionalism not just teaching tasks of nursing
-see healthcare through nursing lens
-take occupation as identity
-starts at school
Role transition ✅formal socialization
Informal socialization
Learning new roles
Formal socialization ✅course work, clinical work, directly being taught
Informal socialization ✅observe nursing in practice, pick up what it means to be a
professional nurse
Socialization influences the process ✅-personal feelings
-personal beliefs
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