Nursing Theory
Foundation of theory, included physical, psychological, and social.
Florence Nightingale - Environmental Theory
(1860) - Established Nurse as a profession and founded a Nursing school.
Florence Nightingale
Within the field of nursing, various roles are performed in numerous arenas. Each of these roles is governed by minimum set of criteria which are: Deliver quality care and Provide Safe Patient Care.
Stand of Care
How many mL in a tsp?
5 mL
To prepare students for their interactions during their profession, it promotes engagement of students in interprofessional education and practice (IPE / IPP) to improve health outcomes by delivering team-based care.
National League for Nursing (NLN)
Acknowledgment of the environment and influence of culture and other factors.
Peplau - Theory of Interpersonal Relations
(1881) - Established the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
The nurse supports the patient's right as well as wishes and communicates them to the other health care providers.
Advocate
how many mL in a tbsp?
15 mL
Published Standard of Professional Nursing Practice that helps ensure quality of care and serve as legal criteria for adequate patient care.
American Nurses Association (ANA)
The environment is an "irreducible, four-dimensional energy field identified by pattern and integral with the human field.
Rogers - Science of Unitary Human Beings Model
(1918) - US Navy Nurse Corps awarded with Navy Cross
Lena Higbee
The process of entrusting or transferring the responsibility for certain tasks to other personnel including UAP, LVNs, and LPNs.
Delegation
30 mL
Accredit a variety of different nursing programs, including practical, diploma, associate, baccalaureate, and graduate programs.
Accrediting Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
NLN's Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (CNEA)
Environment seen as all conditions that shape an individual's behavior.
Roy - Adaptation Model
Dorothea Dix
Global concepts that identify and describe central phenomena and explain the relationship between concepts.
Metaparadigm
8 oz.
Provides scope of practice defined by each state and jurisdiction and set forth the legal limits of nursing practice.
Nursing Practice Acts
Caring and society affect health.
Watson - Human Caring Theory
(1873) - America's first trained nurse.
Linda Richards
Unconscious strategies that allow an individual to decrease or avoid unpleasant circumstances.
Defense mechanisms
2.54 cm
Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, adapted the Institute of Medicine (IOM) competencies for nursing.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)