NURS 142 MIDTERM UMICH
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American Nurses Association (ANA) - Answer the only full-service professional
organization representing the interests of the nation's 3.4 million registered nurses
through its constituent member nurses associations and its organizational affiliates.
What does the ANA do? - Answer advances the nursing profession by fostering high
standards of nursing practice, promotes the rights of nurses in the workplace, projects
a positive and realistic view of nursing, and lobbies the Congress and regulatory
agencies on healthcare issues affecting nurses and the public
scope of practice - Answer the services that a qualified health professional is deemed
competent to perform and permitted to undertake - in keeping with the terms of their
professional license.
Scope of practice defined in nursing - Answer describe the "who," "what," "where,"
"when," "why," and "how" of nursing practice:
"Who" of scope - Answer Registered Nurses (RN) and Advanced Practice Registered
Nurses (APRN)
Definition of Nursing - Answer the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
"Where" of scope - Answer Wherever there is a patient in need of care
"When" of scope - Answer Whenever there is a need for nursing knowledge,
compassion, and expertise
"Why" of scope - Answer to achieve the most positive patient outcomes in keeping with
nursing's social contract and obligation to society
"what" of scope - Answer definition of nursing
Health care licensure - Answer state-based with variability between the qualifications
for each state
standard of care - Answer refers to the provision of services consistent with care, sets
minimum criteria for job proficiency
healthcare consumers - Answer patients
Registered Nurse (RN) - Answer individuals who are educationally prepared & licensed
, to practice
Graduate-Level prepared RNs - Answer RNs that have recieved a Master's or Doctoral
Degree
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Answer RNs that have completed a
grad-level program to be a CRNA, CNM, CNS, or CNP
Scopes of Nursing Ethics deals with obligations of nurses to - Answer Patients
Other health professionals
The profession
The wider public
Global humanity
Morality - Answer comprises personal values, character and conduct.
Metaethics - Answer Theoretical thinking about morality
Normative Ethics - Answer What is right/wrong, good/evil individual or collective
choices
Applied Ethics - Answer Right/wrong, good/evil of actions in a specific profession or
discipline
The Code of Ethics.. - Answer Conveys shared ethical values, obligations, duties and
ideals of nurses individually and collectively
Provides an implied contract with the public
Informs society of the moral values and ideals by which it functions
Informs new professionals of the expected moral behaviors
Guides the profession in self-regulation
Provides a framework for ethical decision-making
Is unapologetic, aspirational and nonnegotiable
Provision 1 - Answer The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the
inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of every
person.
Informed Consent for Treatment - Answer Elements of informed consent: Capacity to
decide Pertinent, understandable information Voluntary decision
EXAM LATEST UPDATE
American Nurses Association (ANA) - Answer the only full-service professional
organization representing the interests of the nation's 3.4 million registered nurses
through its constituent member nurses associations and its organizational affiliates.
What does the ANA do? - Answer advances the nursing profession by fostering high
standards of nursing practice, promotes the rights of nurses in the workplace, projects
a positive and realistic view of nursing, and lobbies the Congress and regulatory
agencies on healthcare issues affecting nurses and the public
scope of practice - Answer the services that a qualified health professional is deemed
competent to perform and permitted to undertake - in keeping with the terms of their
professional license.
Scope of practice defined in nursing - Answer describe the "who," "what," "where,"
"when," "why," and "how" of nursing practice:
"Who" of scope - Answer Registered Nurses (RN) and Advanced Practice Registered
Nurses (APRN)
Definition of Nursing - Answer the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
"Where" of scope - Answer Wherever there is a patient in need of care
"When" of scope - Answer Whenever there is a need for nursing knowledge,
compassion, and expertise
"Why" of scope - Answer to achieve the most positive patient outcomes in keeping with
nursing's social contract and obligation to society
"what" of scope - Answer definition of nursing
Health care licensure - Answer state-based with variability between the qualifications
for each state
standard of care - Answer refers to the provision of services consistent with care, sets
minimum criteria for job proficiency
healthcare consumers - Answer patients
Registered Nurse (RN) - Answer individuals who are educationally prepared & licensed
, to practice
Graduate-Level prepared RNs - Answer RNs that have recieved a Master's or Doctoral
Degree
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Answer RNs that have completed a
grad-level program to be a CRNA, CNM, CNS, or CNP
Scopes of Nursing Ethics deals with obligations of nurses to - Answer Patients
Other health professionals
The profession
The wider public
Global humanity
Morality - Answer comprises personal values, character and conduct.
Metaethics - Answer Theoretical thinking about morality
Normative Ethics - Answer What is right/wrong, good/evil individual or collective
choices
Applied Ethics - Answer Right/wrong, good/evil of actions in a specific profession or
discipline
The Code of Ethics.. - Answer Conveys shared ethical values, obligations, duties and
ideals of nurses individually and collectively
Provides an implied contract with the public
Informs society of the moral values and ideals by which it functions
Informs new professionals of the expected moral behaviors
Guides the profession in self-regulation
Provides a framework for ethical decision-making
Is unapologetic, aspirational and nonnegotiable
Provision 1 - Answer The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the
inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of every
person.
Informed Consent for Treatment - Answer Elements of informed consent: Capacity to
decide Pertinent, understandable information Voluntary decision
