You DEFINE me...
A blend of of SCIENCE and ART.
What is NURSING?
She was an American nurse who established the Red Cross, following the Civil War in the U.S.
Who is CLARA BARTON?
This nursing organization was founded in the late 1800s and is responsible for the document "Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements".
What is the ANA or American Nurses Association?
A 2 year nursing degree obtained in a community college setting.
What is an Associate Degree in Nursing?
It means supporting what we do as nurses with researched guidelines or science.
What is EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE?
It originated from the Latin word NUTRIX, meaning "TO NOURISH."
What is the origin of the word NURSE?
She was an American nurse who had a calling to serve her neighbors, especially the poor and ill in New York City---eventually it came to be called public health nursing.
Who is LILLIAN WALD?
This organization in Missouri that oversees nursing licensure.
What is the Missouri State Board of Nursing?
Formerly, this nursing educational program was sponsored by a hospital and was usually 3 years in length.
What is a Diploma degree in Nursing?
Many patients and their families are surprised by how short this is now.
What is HOSPITAL LENGTH OF STAY?
To promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health, and facilitate coping with disability or death.
What are the four broad aims of nursing?
This brave-hearted nurse assisted in helping black slaves gain their freedom via the "underground railroad" during the American Civil War.
Who is HARRIET TUBMAN?
This major US nursing organization publishes "Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice", a very important document to nurses.
What is the ANA or American Nurses Association?
This academic degree would require attendance of a college or university and would total 4 years, either resulting in Arts or Sciences.
What is a Baccalaureate Nursing Degree?
As the nursing workforce ages, and the nursing faculty workforce ages, this may become critical condition.
What is a nursing shortage?
Caregiver, communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate and collaborator.
What are the roles of a nurse?
A British war nurse and nurse educator who made a point of keeping records, insisting on education in nursing, and wrote a book: "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not."
Who is FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE?
The first INTERNATIONAL organization of professional women that was founded in 1899, it provides a way for national nursing groups to work together.
What is the ICN or International Council of Nurses?
Generally, this degree would enable a nurse to teach, be an nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist.
What is a Master's degree in Nursing?
It is just a natural consequence of the post World War II "baby boom".
What is the increase in the age of the population in America?
It is a defined body of specific knowledge, with a strong service orientation, recognized as an authority, it has a code of ethics, it has set standards, it conducts its own research, and is autonomous.
What is the definition of a PROFESSION?
Although he is much more famous for his poetic work "Leaves of Grass," this American man volunteered to nurse soldiers during the Civil War.
Who is WALT WHITMAN?
A group that gives students in nursing a voice and ability to to be active in social and political issues within the profession.
What is the NSNA or National Student Nurses' Association?
This is a terminal degree in nursing, and I don't mean end of life!
What is the Doctor of Nurse Practice (DNP) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ?
The largest group of healthcare providers in the United States.
What are NURSES?