Nursing Organizations
the professional organization represented by the acronym ANA
What is the American Nurses Association?
Why do you think many nurses don't belong to this potentially powerful, politically active, and very influential organization?
The extent to which a concept is accurately measured in a quantitative study
What is Validity
This law passed in 2010 identified APRN's as extremely valuable assets in the health care system
What is the Affordable care act?
Originally named the State Board Examination, this test was renamed in 1987, and computerized in 1994
What is the NCLEX-RN, CAT test or NCLEX
A group of people who don't receive an intervention in a study for comparison
What is the control group?
National nursing organizations need this to claim that they are truly representative of the profession
What is the participation and membership of all nurses?
Why is it important to belong to a professional organization?
The clinical question asked that guides a research study.
What is the PICOT question?
These are the four APRN roles
What are the CRNA, CNM, CNS, and CNP
What is the difference between these four roles?
This type of licensure allows individual health care institutions to determine which individuals are qualified to practice nursing within general guidelines.
What is Institutional Licensure?
This has been used to allow foreign graduate nurses to work without having a US license. Do you think this is safe? why or why not? what problems do you see with this approach?
Factors that influence how the intervention affects the outcome.
What are confounding variables?
What confounding variables can you see affecting the validity of your study?
The first national nursing organization to provide accreditation for nursing programs at all levels.
What is the National League for Nursing?
What is the primary purpose of the NLN?
This concept relates to the consistency of a measure.
What is Reliability
A process that will allow a nurse to continue at the same level of practice when regulations change as long as they maintain their license.
What is grandfathering?
Allows individuals to practice nursing as long as they do not use the letters RN after their name.
what is permissive licensure
An experiment in which subjects are randomized to a treatment group or control group.
What is a randomized control trial? The second highest level of evidence.
Have you thought of how you will assign participants to you control and intervention groups?
Two accrediting bodies of Nursing programs in the United States.
What are the ACEN- Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing
and CCNE- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
When participants in a study are recruited from a readily available population.
What is a Convenience Sample?
Retains the responsibility of verifying the nurse's education and license
Who is the Employer?
requires anyone who wishes to practice nursing to pass a licensure exam and become registered by the state board of nursing.
what is Mandatory licensure.
All states now have mandatory licensure.
A study where the person being enrolled and the person enrolling the participant don't know who will be chosen to be in the control or intervention group.
What is a double blind study?
What is the point of a double blind study?
legal corporation established in 1953, benefits include: scholarships, conferences and the official publication of the organization.
What is the National Student Nurse's Association (NSNA)
Do you think it is important for nursing students to attend nursing school committees regarding curriculum and evaluation techniques? Why or Why not?
The highest Level of Evidence for a research study
What is a Systematic Review or Metaanalysis?
The basic educational requirement for an APRN needed to qualify to sit for examination
What is a Master's degree?
A nurse who name appears on the official roster of the state board of nursing
what is a registered nurse?
A study that gathers data on human behavior to understand why and how decisions are made.
What is a Qualitative study?