Nursing History
Nursing Process
Nursing Roles
Ethics
Safety
100

First nurse epidemiologist

Focused on sanitary/hygiene reform

Florence Nightingale

100

Collects subjective and objective data relevant to the patient's health or the situation.

May include review of systems, laboratory and diagnostic data

Assessment

100

Professional identity of a nurse is that he/she is able to perform independent nursing interventions.

Autonomy

100

Ability to answer for one’s own actions.

Accountability

100

Unintended harm by an error rather than as a result of disease process

Adverse Event

200

Founded the American Red Cross

Known as the “Angel of the Battlefield” during the American Civil War (tended to soldiers on the battlefields, providing wound care, meeting their basic needs, and comforting them in death)

Clara Barton

200

Analyze assessment data to identify a specific problem related to the disease

Diagnosis

200

Helps to manage physical needs, prevent illness, and restoration of health


Caregiver

200

HIPAA

Confidentiality

200

Error that could have harmed a patient, but harm did not occur as a result of chance

Near miss

300

Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, to provide professional health care to underserved populations in the Appalachian Mountains

Nurse-midwife

Mary Breckinridge

300

Involves priority setting and identifying expected outcomes/goals for the plan of care

Development of an individualized plan of care 

Planning

300

Protect the patient's human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting these rights

The nurse is the voice of the patient when he/she is unable to communicate 

Advocate 

300

Taking positive actions to help others

Practicing in the best interest of helping patients

Do good

Beneficence

300

Unexpected occurrence involving death or serious injury

Sentinel event

400

First public health nurse in the United States

Opened the Henry Street Settlement, which focused on the health needs of poor people who lived in tenements in New York City


Lillian Ward

400

This phase of the nursing process encompasses interventions based on clinical judgment and knowledge that a nurse performs to improve patient outcomes

Implementation

400

Nurse explain disease processes, teach about medications, skills, reinforce learning, and evaluate their learning process.

Educator

400

Do no harm

Refers to the avoidance of harm or hurt

Nonmalficience

400

Identifies patient using two approved patient identifiers (name and date of birth)


Right Patient- Rights of Medication Administration

500

Advocate for the rights of individuals with mental illness.

Educator and social reformer for individuals with mental illnesses

Dorothea Dix

500

Was the intervention effective?

What was the patient's response to the intervention?

Evaluation

500

Interaction and collaboration with other nurses, patients, and members of the health care team

Communicator

500

Fairness to all

Just distribution of scarce resources

Justice

500

Goals and specific actions directed to reduce the risk of medical errors

National Patient Safety Goals of The Joint Commission

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