Chapter 1
Novice, Advanced beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert.
-adult screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, tobacco use, and cancer
-pediatric screenings for hearing, vision, autism, and developmental disorders
-HIV screening for adults at higher risk
-Wellness visits
What is preventative care.
-long term care: assisted living, nursing centers
-psychiatric and older-adult day care
what is Continuing care
Focuses on the patients environment, which ____ believed nurses should improve (i.e., ventilation, light, decreased noise, hygiene, nutrition) so that nature is able to restore a patient to health
Nightingale's Environmental Theory (grand theory)
Evidence based practice (EBP)
what is a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that combines the deliberate and systematic use of best evidence in combination with a clinician's expertise, patient preferences and values, and available health care resources in making decisions about patient care.
ANA's standards of nurse practice
-Diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses
-Ongoing management of chronic health problems
-Prenatal care
-well-baby care
-Family planning
what is primary care (Health promotion)
Community based health care.
What is a method of care that reaches everyone in a community (including the poor and underinsured), focuses on primary rather than institutional or acute-care, and provides knowledge about health and health promotion and models of care to the community.
Interpersonal relations among a nurse, a patient, and a patient's family and developing the nurse-patient relationship.
Peplau's Interpersonal Theory (middle-range)
research relies on methods that precisely measure and quantify a study's variables. Two examples of ____ research are (1) a study dealing with a new pain therapy that quantitatively measures participants self-reported pain severity and (2) a study testing different forms of surgical dressings to measure the extent of wound healing
what is quantitative research
Ethics, Advocacy, respectful & equitable practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, scholarly inquiry, quality of practice, professional practice education, resource stewardship, and environmental health
what is ANA standards of professional performance.
-Urgent care; hospital emergency care
-acute medical-surgical care: ambulatory care, outpatient surgery, hospital
-Radiological procedures
what is Secondary care (acute care)
Community Based nursing
A nurse continually assesses a patient's ability to perform self-care and intervenes as needed to ensure that patients meet physical, psychological, sociological, and developmental needs
Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory (Grand Theory)
Experimental research
what is an RCT is a true experimental study that tightly controls conditions to eliminate bias witht eh goal of generalizing the results of the study to similar groups of subjects
patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, informatics
-Specialty care (such as neurology, cardiology, rheumatology, dermatology, oncology)
Community assessment
what is practicing in a community setting, you need to learn how to assess the community at large. Completing the community assessment requires critical thinking to be able to analyze the multiple sources of data collected
Leininger's Culture Care Theory (middle-range theory)
Qualitative research
what is studies phenomena that difficult to quantify or categorize, such as patients' perceptions of illness or quality of life.
The most important thing for a nurse to not forget about for themselves
what is self-care
-Rehabilitation programs (such as cardiovascular, pulmonary, orthopedic)
-sports medicine
-spinal cord injury programs
-home care
what is Restorative care
The three things for a community assessment
what is structure, population, and social system
Theory is the _____ of nursing
what is the foundation
Focuses on "testing implementation interventions to improve uptake and use of evidence to improve patient outcomes and population health"
Translation research