Concepts in Nursing Exam 1 Questions With
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Standards of Practice - answer✔describe a competent level of nursing based on a decision
making model which includes:
Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcome identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Scope of Practice - answer✔Authoritative statements that describe the responsibility of the
profession. A complex system of intertwined responsibilities, including legal, ethical, and value
components.
A social contract with society of the expectations of the profession, and the professions
expectation of itself.
The purpose is to improve the health and well-being of our patients, families, communities.
Current Status of Nursing: Characteristics - answer✔Knowledge-based on education and
practice, the "Science of Nursing in all its complexity.
Mission-our shared goals, what those we care for can expect from us.
Education-our formal preparation
Social Contract-what we promise society, what society expects from us.
Autonomy-our independent capacity to make decisions for our patients within the confines of
our scope of practice.
Current Status of Nursing: Values - answer✔Respect for human dignity.
Care for health problems regardless of the nature of the health problem.
The patient's right to self determination.
The relationship with our nursing and non-nursing colleagues.
Our total commitment to the patient.
Current Status of Nursing: Barriers - answer✔The lack of acknowledgement the nursing has a
unique set of knowledge that in some manner is not entirely objective, observable and analytical.
Nursing knowledge is based on the human response to what is happening to the patient and
encompasses the biophysical as well as psychosocial realms. It is holism, the mind, body, and
spirit that make up the human-being.
Gender stereotyping
Lack of clarity on what it means to call oneself a nurse
Appearance (changing norms on nursing dress)
Health care organizations controlling nursing
Health care colleagues such as those in medicine consider nursing an "occupation", not a
profession.
Florence Nightingale - answer✔Believed the role of the nurse was to help the body recover, and
remain free from disease
Our first "nurse scientist"
An epidemiologist who analyzed statistics to show the connection between poor sanitation and
disease such as cholera and dysentery
Known as the lady with the lamp, she showed that fresh air, sanitation and nutrition were key
aspects of treatment for wounded soldiers
Practices she advocated are still a part of twenty first century nursing.
Clara Barton - answer✔Established the American Red Cross, is known as the "American
Florence Nightingale." (Pre American Civil War)
Dorthea Dix - answer✔supervisor of the Union Army Nurses (Civil War)
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