Becoming an RN
This is established in each state to regulate the practice of nursing by defining the legal scope of nursing practice, creating a state board of nursing, and establish criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
Nurse Practice Acts
Nursing, a vital profession in the reforming health care system, functions to continuously inform education and practice.
Spirit of Inquiry
Involves the storing and recalling of new knowledge
Cognitive learning
Recognizing the patient as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values and needs.
Patient-Centered Care
Nondirective leadership, the leader relinquishes power to the group, such that an outsider could not identify the leader in the group.
What Laissez-Faire Leadership?
-Promote health
-Prevent illness
-Restore health
-Facilitate coping with disability or death
This is the definition of_______________
Nursing Practice or Definition of Nursing
Growth is integral to the development of the nurse educator as a leader who pursues and values professional and personal advancement.
Professional Identity
Learning a physical skill involving the integration of mental and physical activity
Psychomotor learning
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Evidence-Based Practice
Also called participative leadership, is characterized by a sense of equality among the leader and other participants. Decisions and activities are shared.
What is Democratic leadership?
Optimal functioning or well-being defined by the WHO
Health
Nurse educators use learning and teaching skills to enhance the ability to live a good life for students, colleagues, patients, and communities.
Human Flourishing
This learning includes changes in attitudes, values and feelings
Affective learning
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Teamwork and Collaboration
A Charismatic leader who is unique in their ability to inspire and motivate others.
What is Transformational Leadership?
The practice of nursing in which interventions are based on data from research that demonstrates that they are appropriate and successful
Evidence-based Practice
Nurses demonstrate logic in decisions and actions related to quality nursing education and patient care.
Sound Nursing Judgement
This refers to the extent to which a patient's behavior coincides with the clinical advice, implying he health care provider is viewed as the authority and the patient passively follows recommendations.
What is Compliance?
Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making.
Informatics
This is a leadership style based on a task-and-reward orientation. Team members agree to a satisfactory salary and working conditions in exchange for commitment and compliance to their leader.
What is Transactional Leadership?
National Student Nurses Association (NSNA)
The organization promotes excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of our nation and the global community.
National League for Nursing (NLN)
Unplanned teaching sessions that deal with the patient's immediate learning needs and concerns.
What is informal teaching?
Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
Quality Improvement
Also called directive leadership or authoritarian leadership, involves the leader assuming control over the decisions and activities of the group.
What is Autocratic Leadership?