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Nursing 273 Exam 1 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Role of the Professional Nurse - Answer✔✔-direct patient care, teaching, advocacy,
manager/coordinator of care
nurse as a teacher - Answer✔✔-helps patient acquire knowledge required for health
maintenance or improvement, to prevent illness or injury, to manage therapies and to make
decisions about health and treatment
nurse as a caregiver - Answer✔✔-"traditional" role
holistic approach
provides direct and indirect care to pt
indirect care --> delegation of activities to other members of the team
Nurse reseacher - Answer✔✔--Identifies problems regarding patient care, designs plans of study
and develops tools
-may work in clinic, hospital, or lab and be focused on patient care outcomes, administering
treatments for clinical trial or collecting data to help understand population based outcomes
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nurse practioner - Answer✔✔--advanced degrees and certified by theh American Nurses
Credentialing Center, American Association of NP, Pediatric Certifcation Board and other
organizations
-practice independently in primary or acute care
-typically include family, geriatric, psychiatric mental health, women's health, pediatrics or
adults
nurse anesthetist - Answer✔✔-A registered nurse who has received additional training and
education in the administration of anesthetic medications.
-provide full range of anesthesia services
certified nurse midwife - Answer✔✔--advanced practice who can practice independently and
attends to the health and well being of women in all ages and stages of life
-generally for gynecologic, family planning needs, care for pregnancy, labor and birth, and
menopause care
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Answer✔✔--advanced degrees and education in a specific population
of patients and/or aspect of practice
-provide direct patient care, direct and teach other team members providing care, and conduct
nursing research within their area of specialization
nurse administrator - Answer✔✔--nurse adminstrator/nurse leader/nurse manager
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-manage complex patient care areas, staffing, budgets, organizational and staff performance,
consulting, and ensuring that the goals of the agency are being accoplished
nurse educator - Answer✔✔--teach nursing in a variety of settings like university, community
college, healthcare agency, or hospital
Evidence based practice - Answer✔✔--clinical decision making that integrates the best available
research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
-"the use of a focused problem solving approach to clinical decision making that involves the
conscientious use of the best available scientific edvidence, clinical expertise, and patient
preferences and values"
-came from Nightingale's work whose idea it was ti improve sanitation and nutrition, patients
health would improve
EDP and Cochrane - Answer✔✔--before his work much of medical practice was carried out
based on the individual physician's notes and assumptions.
-Cochrane's work discovered many assumptions upon which medical care was implemented
were unfounded.
-believed limited resources would always be an issue in the healthcare system
evidence-based medicine - Answer✔✔-the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current
best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients
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EDP and nursing - Answer✔✔--expected to implement changes to practice based on scientific
studies showing improvement in patient outcomes, increased patient satisfaction and other
metrics
-The amount of time from bench research proving a positive outcome to implementation in
practice based policy has been as long as 15 years. Still time gaps but has shortened
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Answer✔✔-reviews scienfitic literature on
clinical, behavioral, organizational and financial topics to produce evidence reports and
technology assessments
-intended to improve healthcare thru the support of research on the quality of services and
patient outcome
The Nursing Process - Answer✔✔--Systematic, rational, dynamic and cyclic process used by the
nurse for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for the patient
critical thinking - Answer✔✔-using cognitive skills to acquire new knowledge and making
judgments in the processes of delivering safe quality healthcare
subjective data - Answer✔✔-information that the patient experiences and communicates to the
nurse, known as covert data or symptoms
objective data - Answer✔✔-information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer;
signs
Nursing Process: Assessment - Answer✔✔--first step of nursing process
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