Nursing History
First nurse epidemiologist
Focused on sanitary/hygiene reform
Florence Nightingale
Collects subjective and objective data relevant to the patient's health or the situation.
May include review of systems, laboratory and diagnostic data
Assessment
Professional identity of a nurse is that he/she is able to perform independent nursing interventions.
Autonomy
Ability to answer for one’s own actions.
Accountability
Unintended harm by an error rather than as a result of disease process
Adverse Event
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
Analyze assessment data to identify a specific problem related to the disease
Diagnosis
Helps to manage physical needs, prevent illness, and restoration of health
Caregiver
HIPAA
Confidentiality
Error that could have harmed a patient, but harm did not occur as a result of chance
Near miss
Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, to provide professional health care to underserved populations in the Appalachian Mountains
Nurse-midwife
Mary Breckinridge
Involves priority setting and identifying expected outcomes/goals for the plan of care
Development of an individualized plan of care
Planning
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 communicateAdvocate
Taking positive actions to help others
Practicing in the best interest of helping patients
Do goodBeneficence
Unexpected occurrence involving death or serious injury
Sentinel event
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
This phase of the nursing process encompasses interventions based on clinical judgment and knowledge that a nurse performs to improve patient outcomes
Implementation
Nurse explain disease processes, teach about medications, skills, reinforce learning, and evaluate their learning process.
Educator
Do no harm
Refers to the avoidance of harm or hurt
Nonmalficience
Identifies patient using two approved patient identifiers (name and date of birth)
Right Patient- Rights of Medication Administration
Advocate for the rights of individuals with mental illness.
Educator and social reformer for individuals with mental illnesses
Dorothea Dix
Was the intervention effective?
What was the patient's response to the intervention?
Evaluation
Interaction and collaboration with other nurses, patients, and members of the health care team
Communicator
Fairness to all
Just distribution of scarce resources
Justice
Goals and specific actions directed to reduce the risk of medical errors
National Patient Safety Goals of The Joint Commission