Terms
Consists of a network of agencies, facilities, and providers involved in a specified geographic area
What is the Health Care System?
Significant societal influences in the 21st century helped change which of the following for nursing?
a. womens health care issues
b. increase in abbriviated nursing programs
c. men in nursing
d. nursing shortage
a, c, d
Credited as the first nursing theorist, also known as "lady with the lamp"
Who is Florence Nightingale?
LVN / LPN, conducted in technical schools, colleges, and universities.
What is a Licensed practical nurse / Licensed vocational nurse?
licensure of members required by many professions
What is Certification?
Name two of the purposes, roles, or responsibility of the practical/vocational nurse.
caring for the sick
prevention of sickness and injury
demonatrate professional behavior
collect hostillic assesmit data and comunicate that data
effectively communicate with patients, family, and team members
Believed that an individuals behavior is formed by the individuals attempts to meet essential human needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
YMCA, the first school for training practical nurses.
What is the Young Womens Christian Association?
a dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher level of functioning; the highest level of optimal health
What is Wellness?
What is a nursing program considered when certified by a state agency?
a. accredited
b. approved
c. provisional
d. exemplified
b. approved
approved means certified by a state agency for having met minimum standards
Championed the rights and comforts of the soldiers; organized diet kitchens, laundries, ambulance service; and supervised the nursing staff. One of the greatest nurse heroines of the Civil War.
Who is Mary Ann Ball?
UAP, educated in basic learning techniques and performs under the supervision of the RN.
What is unlicensed assistive personnel?
an abnormal process in which aspects of the social, emotional, or intellectual condition and function of a person are diminished or impaired
What is Illness?
Which of the following must the nurse recognize regarding the health care delivery system?
a. it includes all states
b. it affects the illness of patients
c. insurance companies are not involved
d. The major goal is to achieve optimal levels of health care
d. the major goal is to achieve optimal levels of health care
Traveled to the United States with four of his highly trained nurse deaconesses and helped established the first Protestant hospital on american soil.
Who is Pastor Theodore Fliedner?
NLN, developed accreditation service for practical nursing programs.
What is the National League for Nursing?
a higher standard that signifies that an organization jas judged that a program has met its preestablished criteria
What is Accreditation?
What must we realize when assessing physical and social environmental factors affecting health and illness?
a. they cause illness
b. they affect one another
c. they cause patients to react similarly
d. they can be separated
b. they affect one another
Physical and social factors affect each other, cannot be separated, and cause each patient to react in a unique manner.
First trained nurse in America. Credited with the development of our present day documentation system.
Who is Linda Richards?
NAPNE/NAPNES, dedicated exclusively to practical nursing. Renamed three times.
The Association of Practical Nurse Schools / Practical Nurse Education / National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service