The Profession of Nursing-week 2 Study
Guide Solutions
Nursing is the: - ANSWER✔✔-1.Protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities
2.Prevention of illness and injury
3.Facilitation of healing
4.Alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response
5.Advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
Central Themes in Nursing - ANSWER✔✔-1.Caring
2.An art
3.A science
4.Client centered
5.Holistic
6.Adaptive
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7.Health prevention, health promotion, health maintenance and health restoration
Helping profession
Nursing as an ART - ANSWER✔✔--the intentional creative use of oneself, based upon knowledge and
expertise, to transmit emotion and meaning to another.
-subjective and requires interpretation, sensitivity, imagination, and active participation. Understanding
and appreciation are derived.
Nursing Accountability and Responsibility - ANSWER✔✔-1.ANA Code of Ethics
2.Standards & Scope of Nursing Practice
3.Nursing's Social Policy Statement
4.State Nurse Practice Acts
ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015) - ANSWER✔✔-1.Conveys
shared ethical values, obligations, duties and ideals of nurses individually and collectively
2.Informs society of the moral values and ideals by which it functions
3.Informs new professionals of the expected moral behaviors
4.Provides a framework for ethical decision-making
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