Licensure
This organization develops the NCLEX-RN exam and coordinates licensure standards nationwide.
What is National Council State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)?
This provides the foundation for nursing practice, guiding nurses in what to assess, how to interpret data, and how to care for clients.
What is the significance of nursing theory?
Environmental distractions, emotional state, and cultural background are examples of these influences on message transmission and understanding.
What are factors that can influence the communication process?
High patient acuity, nurse shortages, and increased patient-to-nurse ratios are examples of these challenges that affect safety, satisfaction, and outcomes in healthcare organizations.
What are key staffing issues in health care organizations?
Acupuncture, herbal supplements, meditation, yoga, massage, and aromatherapy are all examples of these nontraditional methods used to promote healing and wellness.
What are complementary and alternative healing or integrative health practices?
This ethical theory focuses on the consequences of actions, while another emphasizes duty and rules regardless of outcomes.
What is the difference between utilitarianism and deontology?
This process allows nurses, as employees, to negotiate collectively with employers regarding working conditions, wages, and benefits.
What is collective bargaining?
This process began in the early 20th century to ensure that nurses met minimum standards of competency and public safety before practicing professionally.
What is the development of nursing licensure in the United States?
The four key elements of nursing theory that form this essential framework.
What are person, environment, health, and nursing?
Spoken or written words convey meaning in one form of communication, while facial expressions, gestures, and posture convey meaning in another.
What is the difference between verbal and nonverbal communication?
Team nursing, primary nursing,and total patient care are examples of these systems that define how nursing responsibilities are organized and delivered to patients.
What are nursing care delivery models, and how do they differ in their advantages and disadvantages?
This mind-body technique uses controlled breathing, visualization, and focus to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and improve overall well-being.
What is meditation?
These are the 4 fundamental ethical principles in nursing practice.
What are autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice?
Job security and improved working conditions are advantages of joining this type of organization, while membership dues and potential for strikes can be disadvantages.
What are the pros and cons of being part of a nursing union?
Result on a nurse’s license for these actions, which include substance abuse, fraud, and practicing beyond the scope defined by the Nurse Practice Act.
What are the grounds for revocation of a nursing license?
This aspect of nursing defines the values, beliefs, and assumptions that shape a nurse’s practice and guide ethical decision-making
What is the philosophy of nursing?
These are the five conflict management styles or methods
What are competing, accommodating, avoiding, compromising, and collaborating?
This care-planning tool uses standardized, evidence-based timelines to ensure all members of the healthcare team provide coordinated, efficient care that reduces delays and improves outcomes.
What is a critical pathway (or clinical pathway) model?
This complementary therapy involves gentle hand movements over or near the patient’s body to detect and rebalance energy fields, promoting relaxation and healing.
What is therapeutic touch?
A nurse who ensures equitable distribution of resources in a community flu vaccine clinic is demonstrating this ethical principle.
What is the principle of justice?
The difference between health policy and politics
What is while health policy sets the laws, goals, and priorities for the healthcare system, politics involves this process by which those policies are influenced, negotiated, and enacted.
This law defines nursing scope of practice, sets educational requirements, and establishes the authority of the State Board of Nursing to enforce regulations.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Developed by Florence Nightingale, this theory emphasizes manipulating the environment — such as light, cleanliness, and ventilation — to promote healing and prevent illness.
What is Nightingale’s Environmental Theory of Practice?
Interrupting, being defensive, or giving false reassurance are examples of these behaviors that can block trust and distort the message between nurse and client.
What are negative communication techniques?
This system coordinates services for clients with complex needs by using a nurse who monitors quality, cost, and progress to ensure continuity across the continuum of care.
What is nursing case management?
A patient taking warfarin (Coumadin) reports using garlic and ginseng to “boost immunity and energy.” The nurse recognizes that combining these supplements with anticoagulants increases this dangerous risk.
What is an increased risk for bleeding due to herb–drug interaction?
When faced with a dilemma about withdrawing life support, the nurse systematically identifies the problem, gathers facts, explores alternatives, makes a decision, and evaluates the outcome using this structured process.
What is an ethical decision-making framework?
The purpose or focus of National League for Nursing (NLN).
What is focusing on excellence in nursing education?
This agreement allows nurses licensed in one member state to practice in other participating states without obtaining additional licenses, reflecting the concept of mutual recognition of practice.
What is the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)?
Through systematic inquiry and the use of quantitative and qualitative methods, this process validates nursing interventions, improves outcomes, and drives evidence-based practice.
What is nursing research, and how does it influence current nursing and health care practices?
When conflict arises, a nurse avoids blaming and instead uses assertive statements, active listening, and focuses on shared problem-solving—demonstrating this constructive approach to resolution.
What are constructive methods of communicating in conflict situations?
Using evidence-based standards, tracking adverse events, and implementing corrective actions are all part of this ongoing process that aims to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety.
What are the principles of quality improvement and the professional nurse’s role in promoting patient safety?
A patient interested in Reiki asks how it works. The nurse explains that it focuses on channeling universal life energy through the practitioner’s hands to support the body’s natural healing ability.
What is the concept of energy channeling in Reiki therapy?
A nurse faced with a conflict between a family’s wishes and a competent patient’s decision identifies the ethical dilemma, considers moral principles, and collaborates with the healthcare team before taking action.
How does the nurse analyze and resolve an ethical dilemma using a decision-making framework?
Nurses advocate for affordable, equitable care, patient safety, and access to preventive services. By voting, joining professional organizations, and lobbying, they fulfill this vital responsibility.
What is the role of the professional nurse in health care reform and political activism?