Florence Nightingale - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- founder of modern nursing
- established professional education of nursing
Standards of nursing practice - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔allow nurses to carry out
professional roles, serving as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the institution where health
care is provided
Nurse Practice Act - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- laws in each state that regulate the practice
of nursing
- sets scope of practice in each state
- sets requirements for nursing school curriculum
Code of ethics for nurses - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- statements of the professional nurse
values and beliefs
- 9 total provisions
- practice with compassion and respect
- primary commitment is to the patient
- promotes, advocates, and protects patients' rights
Social policy statement - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- contract of nursing with society and
society's contract with nursing
- What does society expect from nursing - stay up to date with nursing practice, continuing
education
- What does nursing expect from society - provide facilities, allow nursing to grow
Roles of nurses - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- caregiver
- communicator
, - teacher / educator
- counselor
- leader
- researcher
- advocate
- collaborator
4 aims of nursing - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- to promote health
- to prevent illness
- to restore health
- to facilitate coping with disability or death
Nursing process - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
Types of assessment - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- comprehensive
- focused
- emergency
- time-lapsed
- assessment of communities/special populations
Comprehensive assessment - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- complete health history (medical,
surgical, family, social)
- allergies
- medications
- safety
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