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Dimensions of Nursing Final (Rasmussen) Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Hippocrates - Answer✔️✔️-"Father of Modern Medicine.
Beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead of on appeasing the gods.
Emphasized treating the whole client, mind, body, spirit, and the environment.
Made diagnosis on the basis of symptoms rather than on an isolated idea of a
disease.
He was concerned with ethical standards for physicians, expressed in the now-
famous Hippocratic Oath.
Why have the use of integrative health practices increased - Answer✔️✔️-
dissatisfaction with conventional health care, desire for greater control of health,
desire for cultural and philosophical congruence with personal beliefs, belief in the
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effectiveness of alternative therapies, individual health status, rising cost of
conventional health care
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) - Answer✔️✔️-Using research findings to guide
nursing practice. It uses statistical data to estimate the risk-benefit ratio.
The Cap (Common Nursing symbols) - Answer✔️✔️-A symbol of service to others.
The first one was in 1874, primary used to keep long hair out of the way. Each
school designed their own. Separate ceremonies for pinning and capping. Capping
was after 6 months of classroom education. Signs of rank were first year, white
cap, 2nd year, vertical black band on the edge, and 3rd year, graduation, vertical
band removed and a black band across the front.
The Nursing Pin (Common Nursing Symbols) - Answer✔️✔️-During the crusades,
Knight's hospitallers wore a white Maltese cross around their neck, showing they
were skilled in treating injured soldiers.
The first modern nursing pin attributed to Nightingale, which was the blue cross
with her head in the middle. Each program designed a unique pin to represent
values, philosophies, beliefs, and goals.
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The Lamp (Common Nursing Symbols) - Answer✔️✔️-Flame of Life, extinguished
by death. The burning of the lamp symbolized enlightenment that accompanies
knowledge. Florence used the lamps during her rounds at night.
Isabel Adams Hampton-Robb (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles)
- Answer✔️✔️-Focused on the academics rather than clinically raised standards of
education in the U.S. She was an advocate for reducing long hours. She was the
first president of the ANA, and helped develop American Journal of Nursing.
Lillian Ward (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - Answer✔️✔️-
Opened the Henry Street Settlement (a storefront health clinic in a poorer part of
NYC. The nurses made home visits and focused on sanitary conditions and
children's health). She was an advocate for wellness education, Founded the
National Organization for Public health nursing, in 1912.
Lavinia Lloyd Dock (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) -
Answer✔️✔️-Write the medical textbook for nurses. She addressed problems of
poverty and squalor. She was dedicated to the pursuit of equal rights. She spent of
20 years fighting for women's rights to vote.
Annie W. Goodrich (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) -
Answer✔️✔️-She ran multiple nursing schools throughout New York. In 1910, she
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was appointed State Inspector of Nursing Schools (a position on physicians held),
and was the Dean of Nursing in the Army Nursing School, and Yale School of
Nursing. She established a nursing training program at Vassar College.
Loretta C. Ford (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - Answer✔️✔️-
Founded Nurse Practitioner (NP) Practice.
Florence Nightingale (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) -
Answer✔️✔️-Universally regarded as the founder of modern nursing, Florence
Nightingale dedicated her long life to improving health care and nursing standards.
She worked tirelessly for the reform of health care and nursing and was appointed
to many related committees and commissions. A prolific writer, she wrote
extensively about improving hospital conditions, sanitation, nursing education, and
health care in general.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) - Answer✔️✔️-Using the model
contributed to the adoption of quality and safety competencies as core practice
values. Built on 5 competencies developed initially by the Institute of Medicine.
What are the 5 Competencies? (QSEN) - Answer✔️✔️--Client centered care.
-Teamwork & collaboration.
-Evidence-based practice.
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