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Dimensions of Nursing FINAL Study
Guide, Dimensions of Nursing Test 2,
Rasmussen Dimensions of Nursing Test
2 Questions & 100% Correct Answers
Evidence Based Practice
✓ :~~ is the practice of nursing in which interventions are based on data from
research that demonstrates that they are appropriate and successful.
Referent Power
✓ :~~ dependent on establishing and maintaining a close personal
relationship with someone, either client or colleague.
Expert Power
✓ :~~ derives from the amount of knowledge, skill, or expertise that an
individual or group has
Reward Power
✓ :~~ depends on the ability of one person to grant another some type of
reward for specific behaviors or changes in behavior
Coercive Power
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✓ :~~ the ability to reprimand, withhold rewards, and threaten punishment.
Legitimate Power
✓ :~~ depends on a legislative or legal act that gives the individual or
organization a right to make decisions that they might not otherwise have
the authority to make
Collective Power
✓ :~~ often used in a broader context than individual client care and is the
underlying source for many other sources of power
Hippocrates
✓ :~~ Beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead of on
appeasing the gods. He emphasized treating the whole client, mind, body,
spirit, and environment and making diagnoses on the basis of symptoms
rather than on an isolated idea of a disease. He was also concerned with
ethical standards for physicians, expressed in the now-famous Hippocratic
Oath.
Hippocratic Oath
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✓ :~~ One of the oldest binding documents in history, and is still held sacred
by physicians: to treat the ill to the best of one's ability, to preserve a
patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation,
and so on.
Florence Nightingale
✓ :~~ the founder of modern nursing, in 1851, she attended a 3-month
nurses' training program at the church-run hospital in Kaiserswerth,
Germany. Took a group of 37 volunteer nurses into the battlefield area, in
the Crimean War, and after 6 months of the nurses help, mortality rate
dropped from 42 percent to 2 percent. Nightingale supervised 125 nurses in
several large hospitals, and advocated a program of at least 1 year that
included basic biological science, techniques to improve nursing care, and
supervised practice.
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
✓ :~~ Opened in 1860 and began to train nurses, advocated health
maintenance and the concept that nursing was both an art and a science,
and taught that each person should be treated as an individual and that
nurses should meet the needs of clients, not the demands of physicians.
Many early graduates went on to become important nursing leaders, and
Nightingale's ideas resurfaced and are now evaluated in the light of a rapidly
changing health-care system.
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Isabel Adams Hampton Robb
✓ :~~ her conviction that nurses needed a solid theoretical education, she
dedicated her life to raising the standards of nursing education in the United
States, and was the first as director of the Illinois Training School for
Nurses, headed the new Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb Facts
✓ :~~ Formed the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools
for Nurses and served as chairwoman. In 1896, she became the first
president of a group called the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United
States and Canada, which would later become the American Nurses
Association (ANA). Robb helped develop the still the official journal called
the American Journal of Nursing, the first professional journal for nursing.
Lillian Wald
✓ :~~ Opened a storefront health clinic called the Henry Street Settlement in
New York. Wald became a dedicated social reformer, an efficient
fundraiser, and an eloquent speaker, and advocated wellness education.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company saw value in her beliefs and asked her
to organize its nursing branch, and she founded the American Red Cross's
Town and Country Nursing Service.
Lillian Wald Facts
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