Scope & Standards
The body that can revise and amend the scope and standards of nursing
Who is the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
What is the code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements?
Foundational documents that guide nurses in their professional commitments
What are the Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice and the Code of Ethics for Nurses
Nursing integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence. Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations in recognition of the connection of all humanity.
What is the Definition of Nursing?
The number of provisions in the Code of Ethics for Nurses
What is nine?
Nursing's professional association that carries out self governance activities
Who is the American Nurses Association?
The who, what, where, when, why, and how of nursing
What is the scope of nursing practice?
The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health and safety of this person
Who is the patient?
Own knowledge base, authority over education, registration, altruistic service, code of ethics formal training, socialization process, autonomy
What are the characteristics of a profession?
The authoritative statements of action and behaviors that all RNs regardless of population, specialty, and setting are expected to perform competently
What are standards of professional nursing practice?
The nurse exercises these values to help her/him recognize the inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of every person
What are compassion and respect?
Education takes place at college or university, education is prolonged, workers have autonomy, values, beliefs, and ethics are an integral part of preparation, decisions are largely based on theory and evidence, workers are committed
What are characteristics of a profession? (vs. an occupation)
Assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching and health promotion, evaluation
What are nursing standards of practice?
The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient whether the patient is...
What is an individual, family, group, community, or population?
Work that historically has been perceived as women's work, perceived lack of autonomy and subservience to medicine, lack of standardized education, lack of recognition of unique body of knowledge
What are threats to nursing's recognition as a profession?