Profession
Nursing Terms
History
Communication
Potpurri
100
A two year program that trains RNs.
What is an Associates Degree?
100
Father, Mother, and children that live together with no extended members of the family.
What is a Nuclear Family?
100
A wealthy British woman who was famous for her work reforming military hospitals in the Crimean War. Also well known for her work with statistics, opening the first secular nursing school, and for improving standards of healthcare all over Britain.
Who is Florence Nightingale
100
A statement where you clearly state your own feelings without sounding like you are blaming or accusing others.
What is an 'I' statement
100
Marcus Engel's Hospital
What is Barnes Hospital?
200
A US-based nursing organization that deals with nursing employment, labor relations, and credentialing.
What is the ANA (American Nurses Association)
200
Honest expression of your rights/needs/feelings without appearing aggressive or treading on other's rights/needs/feelings.
What is Assertiveness?
200
The first African-American nurse to graduate from nursing school.
Who is Mary Mahoney?
200
A lose-lose conflict resolution technique that sometimes only postpones the inevitable.
What is Avoidance?
200
Developed the theory of trans-personal caring
Who is (Jean) Watson?
300
An advanced nursing career where a nurse's responsibilities include physical examinations, diagnostics, taking x-rays or other lab tests, and educating the clients.
What is a Nurse Practitioner? (CNP)
300
The member of a team who's job it is to keep track of the group's activities and brainstorming.
What is a Recorder?
300
Founder and first president of the American Red Cross, a civil war nurse, and humanitarian.
Who is Clara Barton?
300
Discussing and communicating about communication, as to be better at it and to understand deeper meanings within messages.
What is metacommunication?
300
Statements like 'All people can be leaders.' or 'Everyone at the top of their field is a leader.'
What are leadership myths?
400
6% of American Hospitals that are characterized by highly-educated nurses and a low turnover rate.
What is a Magnet Hospital?
400
A practical customer service program written by Sharon Dingman.
What is The Caring Model? (TM)
400
American nurse who was famous for her advocacy on the behalf of the mentally ill, her career in the civil war, and the reformation of many of America's asylum's and prisons.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
400
Interaction within a person's spiritual domain.
What is transpersonal communication?
400
Nonphysical traits specific to a culture such as values, language, heritage, etc.
What is ethnicity?
500
The RN employment setting with the worst average pay
What is School Health?
500
A grid with four sections exploring what you know about yourself versus what others know about you.
What is a Johari Window?
500
Florence Nightingale's nickname during her work in the Crimean war.
Who is 'The lady with the Lamp?'
500
When you sit facing the client, observe an open posture, lean towards a client, establish and maintain direct eye contact, relax.
What is SOLER (active listening)?
500
A campaign of videos showing that nurses are a diverse group of people with an important task, emphasizing the importance relationship-based care and communication.
What is the Johnson & Johnson campaign?
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