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This type of nursing education, compared with ADN preparation, has been associated with more positive patient outcomes.
What is BSN education?
Daily double: what are the 3 different educational routes one can take to become an RN?
This nursing pioneer played an important role in establishing the foundation for evidence-based nursing practice.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is distinguished from an occupation by characteristics such as specialized knowledge, education, and ethical constructs.
What is professionalism?
This type of research uses numerical data and statistical analysis.
What is quantitative research?
This systematic process guides nurses in providing patient-centered care.
What is the nursing process?
This type of nursing role requires education beyond the basic RN level.
What are advanced practice nursing roles?
DAILY DOUBLE: Name 2 roles and explain their job.
This historical nursing figure established the Henry Street Settlement in New York City serving immigrants and the poor.
Who is Lillian Wald?
This is the legal authority granted by a state board to practice a profession.
What is licensure?
This framework helps nurses structure a focused clinical question using Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Time.
What is PICOT?
Daily Double: create a PICOT research question about falls
A nursing diagnosis differs from a medical diagnosis because it focuses on the patient's response to this.
What is a health condition or situation?
This ongoing workforce challenge occurs when there are not enough nurses available to meet the healthcare needs of the population.
What is a nursing shortage?
The Frontier Nursing Service founded by Mary Breckenridge specialized in this type of care.
What is midwifery?
This is a voluntary credential demonstrating specialized knowledge or expertise.
What is certification?
This type of reasoning begins with specific observations and moves toward a general conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
Daily Double: give an example of inductive reasoning in nursing
These goals should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
What are SMART goals?
Name 3 nursing roles that are outside of the acute care setting?
What are: school nurse, educator, researcher, public health nurse, home health nurse, long-term care, correctional
This historical nurse was considered the "Angel of the Battlefield" and founded the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
The process by which a nursing student or new nurse learns the values, norms, skills, and behaviors of the nursing profession and begins to adopt a professional identity.
What is professional socialization?
These three categories describe different levels of scientific investigation, from foundational laboratory work to applying research findings in practice.
What is bench, transitional, and clinical science?
This type of thinking involves examining one's own thoughts, experiences, and actions to improve future practice.
What is reflective thinking?
Identify three factors that contribute to nurse attrition.
What are burnout, staffing ratios, pay, health, unrealistic job expectations, stress, bullying, etc?
These two national organizations emerged from the movement toward standardized nursing education and professional practice championed by Isabel Hampton Robb.
What is the NLN and the ANA?
A nurse educator asks students to analyze why nursing may experience inconsistent professional identity and influence across healthcare settings. Identify at least 3 or more factors that contribute to nursing’s professional variability.
What are educational variability, gender issues, historical influences, external conflicts, internal conflicts, and nursing image?
The 3 foundational elements of EBP (evidence-based practice).
What are the best available research, clinical expertise, and patient preferences/values?
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): “an approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from research studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values.” (Black, pg. 231)
This describes the difference between a nurse who relies heavily on rules and a nurse who recognizes patterns and uses extensive clinical experience.
What is novice versus expert practice?