Evidence-Based Practice
The source of nursing knowledge used during this situation is?
After reviewing several research articles, the clinical nurse specialist on a medical surgical unit rewrites the procedure on assessing the placement of a nasogastric tube.
Scientific Knowledge
This is based on objective data
Culturally competent care
When 2 or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action.
Ethical dilemma
Who determines the scope of practice for LPN's and RN's ?
State Board of Nursing
This theorist influenced nursing knowledge by differentiated between health nursing and illness nursing.
Florence Nightingale
Research method used to study perceptions
Qualitative Research
The view of one culture is the only correct standard by which people should live. For example, a nurse disregards a patient's concern about using the tv to help his sleep and instead suggests a glass of warm milk.
Ethnocentrisim
The process by which people come to understand their own values and value system. For example, a middle age man has increasing difficulty breathing. He never exercises, eats fast food regularly, and smokes two packs of cigarettes a day. He tells the nurse he wants to change the way he lives.
Values clarification
The type of law involves a nurse that is arrested for possession of illegal drugs.
Criminal
These outline the process of human growth and development
Development theories
The body of nursing knowledge best describes what?
The science of Nursing
A client of English descent reports to the primary health care facility with symptoms of fever, cough, and running nose. While interviewing the client, should the nurse keep in mind?
Maintain eye contact
Many healthcare institutions have developed these to function to include education, policy making, case review, and consultation.
Institutional Ethics Committees
This is the legal source of rules of conduct for nurses.
Nurse Practice Acts
This is a nurse's best legal safeguard.
competent practice
During the first half of he 20th century, what changed in the structure of society, resulting in changing roles for women and nursing?
Nursing research was conducted and published
A male nurse is preparing to take the vital signs of a female client. Which ethnic group would consider this improper?
Arab Muslim
A dying client tells the nurse that he doesn't want to see his family because he doesn't want to cause them more sadness. The most appropriate action by the nurse would be?
help the client clarify his values
This accreditation is a legal requirement for a school of nursing to exist.
This ethical principle means doing good or promoting good.
Beneficence
A variable is apart of what type of research
quantitative
Because the nurse-client interaction is the focal point of nursing what should nurses consider when conducting assessments of clients, their families, and friends?
Their own cultural orientation
This informs both nurses and society of the primary goals and values of the nursing profession.
Code of Ethics
This is a threat or attempts to make bodily contact with another person without that person's consent.
Assault
This would guide the nurse's care for a Native American/First Nations male.
There may be a role for a trial medicine man in the client's care.