Rules around Nursing
Governed and enacted by the state's legislature, has guidelines and parameters for nurses in each state
What is the Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
When nurse apply their knowledge in a compassionate manner and build a trusting relationship with their patient/client
What is the Art of Nursing?
A person who is: Autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups, and communities, whether sick or well, in all settings. Protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning. Prevention of illness and injury. Facilitation of healing. Alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence.
Who is a Nurse?
ENA (Emergency Nurses Association), ANA (American Nurses Association), NNA (Nebraska Nurses Association)
What are some of the professional organizations that nurses can belong to.
Who is Linda Richards (July 1841- April 1930)
"Services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform and permitted to undertake - in keeping with the terms of their professional license."
What is the Nursing Scope of Practice Statement?
The application of the knowledge of nursing and the technical aspects of the practice
What is the science of Nursing?
Person, environment, health, and nursing
What are the 4 concepts of the nursing metaparadigm?
A nurse attains this by completing a basic course of nursing studies in an approved program and has passed a national exam.
What is Nursing license?
They were among the first to build hospitals and hospital systems in the United States
Who are the Sister Nuns?
Regulations are made under this Act about the class of registration, title protection, controlled acts, practice requirements, quality assurance, and professional misconduct.
What is the Nursing Act?
Hospitals, long term care facilities, client's homes, clinics, and classrooms
What are different settings that nurses work in?
Nursing is a safety critical profession founded on four pillars: clinical practice, education, research, and leadership. Nurses use evidence-based knowledge, professional and clinical judgement to assess, plan, implement and evaluate high-quality person-centered nursing care.
What is the Nursing Profession?
When the government allows the Board of Nursing to regulate it's own members in order to protect the public from harm
What is self-regulation?
This person revolutionalized nursing as an acceptable profession for women in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Further defines and interprets laws around the NPA
State specific licensing and regulatory body
defines scope of practice and oversees disciplinary actions
Issues licenses
What is the State Board of Nursing
Clinical practitioner, administrator, teacher, researcher, advocate, consultant, and manager
What are the different roles of a nurse?
Specialized education, code of ethics, autonomy, body of language, service to society, belonging to a Professional organization.
What are the critical attributes of a Profession?
Their mandate is to protect the public's right to quality nursing care, and ensure that all nurses provide safe, competent, and ethical care.
Who is the Board of Nursing?
In 1932, this report found that hospital-nursing schools turned out a disciplined workforce, but did not provide the quality of education necessary for highly competent nurses
What is the Weird report?
Further defines scope of practice, give clear directive on how to perform nursing job duties, where you would look to see how something should be done
What are Hospital policies and procedures
When a nurse's practice includes supporting someone to ensure their voice is heard
What is advocacy?
The ability to carry out nursing responsibilities in an independent manner
What is autonomous practice?
This Professional organization represents all the Emergency Room Nurses
What is the ENA?
The year that Licensed Practical Nurse became an official title
When is 1944?