NUR 205 Profession to Nursing Verified Questions And Answers With Verified Updates
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accountability - The nurse is answerable for the outcomes of actions taken.
-accountable for actions, don't cover up mistakes/wrongdoings
Accreditation - Mandatory (passing NCLEX) and Voluntary
advocacy - to advocate for someone means to speak for that person when the person is unable to
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NUR 205 Profession to Nursing
accountability - The nurse is answerable for the outcomes of actions taken.
-accountable for actions, don't cover up mistakes/wrongdoings
Accreditation - Mandatory (passing NCLEX) and Voluntary
advocacy - to advocate for someone means to speak for that person when the person is unable to
speak for themselves.
Aims of nursing - 1. *To promote health:* increase a person's well-being and health potential
2. *To prevent illness:* avoid illness; achieve early detection; or maintain function within the constraints
of an illness
3. *To restore Health:* direct care for diagnosis or treatment of disease
4. *To facilitate coping with disability or death:* To facilitate an optimal level of functioning; provide
quality end of life care
American nurses association definition of nursing - -nursing is a professional discipline concerned
with the health promotion and risk reduction, illness and disease management and facilitating quality of
life and death
ANA Standards of Practice Contents - pg. 18 Taylor/Lillis
ANA's nursing social policy statement - Describes the values and social responsibility of nursing,
provides a definition and scope of practice of nursing, and discusses nursing's knowledge base and the
methods by which nursing is regulated
-The PATIENT is the central focus of all definitions
areas of potential liability for nurses - -failure to monitor and assess
-failure to ensure safety
, -improper implementation of skills or procedures
-documentation errors
-medication errors
Assault and Battery - Assault is an attempt or threat to touch someone unjustly. Battery is actual
willfully touching of another person that may or may not cause harm.
autonomy - Patients right to make individual choices
beneficence - The promotion to do good for the patient
Certification - Validates specialty knowledge, experience, and clinical judgement.
Examples:
-American Nurses Association
APRN, BC
-American Association of Critical Care Nursing
CCRN
-American College of Nurse Midwives
CNM
-American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
CRNA
-National Association of School Nurses
CSN
Clients rights and how they influence nursing practice? - 1.High Quality Hospital Care
2. Clean and Safe environment
3. Involvement in your care.
4. Protection of Privacy
5. Help prepare you and your family for when you leave the hospital.
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