Chapter 1 and 2
Who is the largest group of health care providers?
Who are nurses
In the early 1900's, what concerns arose regarding nursing education?
What is...poor quality of nursing education, lack of qualified faculty, and conditions for students
What is the purpose of nurse licensure?
What is to protect the public health, safety, and welfare.
What are 2 levels of need according to Maslow?
What is physiological, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.
This is a systematic way of thinking.
What is the scientific method.
What are the 3 ways to become a registered nurse?
What is a diploma, an associates degree, and a BSN.
This is the earliest form of education for nurses and is hospital-based
What is the diploma program.
What is the most common reason for disciplining nurses?
What is "is a dynamic balance achieved by effectively functioning open systems"?
What is homeostasis.
This type of research includes standardized experimental designs with hypothesis, measurable variables and outcomes, and statistical analysis.
What is quantitative research.
This type of nursing care improves the quality of life of patients and families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness…prevents and relieves suffering
What is palliative care.
Give one reason why we should define nursing?
What is it establishes boundaries of the profession, guides the educational preparation of nurses, and makes the work of nursing visible and valuable to the public and to policy makers.
True or false: Professional negligence (malpractice) may occur by commission and omission.
What is true.
•Commission—doing something that should not have been done
•Omission—failing to do things that should have been done
The suprasystem in which a person lives is called.
Environment...it can either promote or interfere with homeostasis and well bing of individuals.
This is an element of critical thinking and a good means of improving clinical judgment.
What is evidence-based practice.
This person is considered the mother of modern day nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale.
What is the overall goal of nursing education?
What is to teach students to think like a nurse.
This is commonly defined as "The doing of good."
What is beneficence.
When nursing knowledge is built on sound theory, nursing is considered a...
What is a profession.
What is the first phase of the nursing process?
The Henry Street Settlement on New York’s lower east side was opened due to poverty, disease, and poor living conditions. Who started this?
Who is Lillian Wald.
What is a strategy to avoid reality shock?
What is...seek practical experiences outside school, balance work with academic responsibilities, shadow a nurse, form a group for support, care for yourself.
This principle is refers to faithfulness or honoring one’s commitments or promises
What is fidelity.
This is an example of a philosophy of nursing.
What is Nightingale, Henderson, or Watson's theories.
Give me an example of a dependent intervention.
What is it would require instructions, written prescriptions, or supervision of another health professional with prescriptive authority.