General
Professional Development
Theory
Letter Soup
Foundations
100

Association, specialized professional education, autonomy, research based, Altruism, Accountability, Code of Ethics adopted by practitioners

What are characteristics of profession?

100

This type of degree mainly focuses on core nursing courses with the advantage of being able to complete the degree in two years.

What is an associate's degree?

100

Concepts provide comprehensive, holistic perspectives in this model of nursing.

What is conceptual?

100

The legislation ensures that the nurse is following the Nurses Code of Ethics and is protecting the patient's privacy and confidentiality,

What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)?

100

These are free chosen principles, ideals, or standards held by an individual, class, or group that give meaning and direction to life.

What are values?

200

This nursing approach considers the mind, body, and spiritual aspects of a human being.

What is the holistic approach?

200

Nurses holding this degree or higher are on the rise.

What is a baccalaureate degree?

200

By observing for and assessing the patient's coping abilities within their environment, the nurse is applying this conceptual model.

What is Roy's Adaptation Model?

200

This organization guides development of nursing through scope of practice, accountability, and ethical code.

What is American Nurses Association (ANA)?

200

Choices and habitual actions that promote or diminish health.

What are health beliefs?

300

For the fourteenth year, this profession has been chosen as having the highest integrity and ethics?

What is nursing?

300

War, military, and epidemics have influenced this in nursing.

What is the development of nursing?

300

The nurse is caring for a patient that has been in an automobile accident and has several fractured bones.  By developing a plan of care based on the nurse's assessment of the patient's ability to provide adequate self-care, the nurse is using this conceptual model.

What is Orem's Self-Care Model?

300

This defines the scope and responsibility of nursing practice and determines the legal boundaries within which a nurse may practice.  It varies by state.

What is the Nurse Practice Act?

300

This system promotes the exchange of matter, energy & information with other systems & the environment.

What is an open system?

400

Increase in the aging population, faculty shortages, and limited clinical sites contribute to this.

What is nursing shortages?

400

This program offers nurses that hold a diploma or an associate's degree in nursing to continue their education.

What is a RN-BS program?

400

The nurse is caring for an American Indian family in the home health setting.  In an effort to provide the most patient centered care, the nurse should use this theory in the care plan development.

What is Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universailty?

400

These two organizations are responsible for accreditation of nursing programs.

What are Commission on Collegiate Nursing (CCNE) and Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)?

400

This consists of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of social and ethnic groups that have been perpetrated through generations.

What is culture (cultural systems)?

500

This is the hallmark of professional nursing practice, according to the Code of Ethics.

What is accountability?

500

A nursing student would be considered to be in this stage of Patricia Benner's five stages of nursing practice.

What is novice?

500

This philosophy focuses on the relationship between the nurse and the patient and includes 10 carative factors.

What is Watson's Philosophy?

500

This project ensures that nursing graduates have competencies in patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, EBP, QI, and informatics.

What is Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)?

500

This theory explains that human behavior is motivated by intrinsic needs.

What is Maslow's Human Needs Theory?