Ethics
Belief of somethings worth, may differ from others beliefs around you.
Value
Organization charged with enforcing the nursing practice act in NC
NC Board of Nursing
Founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightengale
Thinking critically while carrying out orders and handling other tasks that may arise
Responsibility
Selye's first phase of stress response
Alarm
The values that influence your decisions and behaviors. Partially determined by what you believe is morally right and wrong
Ethics
Applying the scientific evidence to care for real patients, considering their preferences and values
Evidence Based Practice
An activist for better mental health care and the establishment of psychiatric hospitals
Dorothea Dix
Telling the truth, even if we've made a mistake
Honesty
Phase of illness in which a person may not feel good, without observable symptoms.
Prodromal phase
A written statement indicating a patients wishes regarding future medical care in the event the patient becomes unable to voice their decisions.
Advance Directive
The quality nurses develop to know when to act and when to wait and watch
Critical Judgement
First school of nursing was founded here
Kaiserworth, Germany
A ______ Nurse sees patients as people who have needs for touch and understanding as much as they have needs for IV fluids and antibiotics.
Caring
An illness that strikes suddenly and lasts a limited time
Acute illness
Legal written designation making another person responsible for one's medical decisions.
Healthcare Power of Attorney
A type of nursing in which nurses and assistive personal provide care to a group of patients. Often effective when there are a limited number of nurses to provide care.
Team nursing
Providers of nursing care in ancient history
Family members and priests
Keeping track of all of the information required to care for patients.
Organization
Actions people use to combat stress
Coping strategies
Failure to provide certain care that another person of the same education and locale would generally provide under the same circumstances.
Negligence.
Nurses role when they speak up for patients who may not be able to speak for themselves, even when it may not be in the best interests of the hospital.
Patient advocate
The decade all states started requiring nurses to be licensed
The 50's
Arriving on time, clean and together, completing assigned work
Professionalism
The ability of individuals to understand basic health information and use that information to make good decisions about their health.
Health Literacy