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Professional Nursing: Concepts And Challenges Ch.
Hospital-based nursing
They provide direct patient care, serve as educators, managers, and administrators who teach or supervise others and establish the direction of nursing hospital wide.
Community Health nursing
Work in ambulatory clinics, health departments, hospice, and a variety of oth...
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Professional Nursing: Concepts and
Challenges Ch. 1-3, 7
Hospital-based nursing - Answer They provide direct patient care, serve as educators,
managers, and administrators who teach or supervise others and establish the direction
of nursing hospital wide.
Community Health nursing - Answer Work in ambulatory clinics, health departments,
hospice, and a variety of other community-based settings including homes where they
provide nursing care to home bound patients
nurse entrepreneurs - Answer Identifies a need and creates a service to meet the
identified need; Enjoy autonomy
office based nursing - Answer Supervise other office workers, such as practical nurses,
nurse aides, scheduling clerks, and record clerks
occupational and environmental health nursing - Answer Provides basic health care
services, health education, screenings, and emergency treatment to company
employees at the workplace
military nursing - Answer Practice in peacetime and wartime settings in the army, navy,
and air force.
school nursing - Answer A specialized practice of professional nursing that advances
the well-being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students
hospice and palliative care nursing - Answer Dedicated to improving the experience of
seriously ill and dying patients and their families
case management nursing - Answer Growing field in nursing developed as a way of
managing health care costs and patient length of stay; Involves systematic collaboration
with patients, their significant others, and their health care providers to coordinate high-
quality health care services in a cost effective manner with positive patient outcomes
nursing informatics - Answer Help bridge the gap between information technology and
nursing practice; Combines the nursing science with information management science
and computer science to manage information nurses need and to make that information
accessible
travel nurse - Answer Fixed-term, temporary nurses who usually work at the same
hospital for 13 weeks and are scheduled at least 2 months in advance.
APN - Answer The umbrella term applied to an RN who has met advanced educational
and clinical practice requirements beyond the 2 to 4 years of basic nursing education
demanded of all RNs; The four categories include: nurse practitioner, clinical nurse
specialist, certified nurse midwife, and certified registered nurse anesthetist.
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Challenges Ch. 1-3, 7
NP - Answer Can perform physical examinations, take medical histories, diagnose and
treat common acute and chronic illnesses and injuries, order and interpret laboratory
tests and X-ray films, and counsel and educate clients
CNS - Answer Are experts in a particular field of clinical practice such as mental health,
gerontology, cardiac care, cancer care, community health, or neonatal health, and they
perform health assessments, make diagnoses, deliver treatment, and develop quality
control methods
Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) - Answer Provide well-woman care and attend to or
assist in child birth in various settings, including hospitals, birthing centers, private
practice, and home birthing services
CRNA - Answer Administer anesthetics; Collaborate with a physician or work
independently
CNL - Answer Clinical experts who are involved in the care of a distinct group of
patients and who may, on occasion, actively provide direct patient care themselves;
Coordinate the direct care activities of other nursing staff and health care professionals,
gather and evaluate patient outcomes, and have the authority to change plans of care
when necessary
Dorthea L. Dix - Answer Appointed superintendent of Women Nurses of the Union
Army; Created a month-long training program for nurses
Mary Ann Bickerdyke - Answer Brought order out of chaos and created clean conditions
in a western from hospital camp; Not a formally trained nurse
Clara Barton - Answer Began an independent campaign to provide relief for the
soldiers; Set up a makeshift field hospital and cared for the wounded and dying;
Revolutionized how to sort and care for soldiers; Received the title "Angel of the
Battlefield"; Founded the American Red Cross
Sallie Thompkins - Answer Commissioned a "Captain of the Calvary, unassigned";
Established a hospital in Richmond; Only woman in the Confederacy to hold a military
raking
Mary Eliza Mahoney - Answer First African American professionally educated nurse
Chicago's World Fair - Answer Hampton presented lack of uniformity across nursing
schools; Paper by Florence Nightingale was presented; Set the stage for formalized
nurse training
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