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A statement of philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principles you will use to provide care to your patients.
What is the Nursing Code of Ethics?
Primary Care or Health Promotion
Groups of patients who are more likely to develop health problems as a result of excess health risks, and limited access to health care resources.
What are vulnerable populations?
A nursing theorist who created the concept "From Novice to Expert"
Who is Patricia Benner?
Conducts evidence-based practice and research to improve nursing care and further define and expand the scope of nursing practice.
What is a nurse researcher?
Accountability
What is a nurse's professional and legal responsibility for the type and quality of care provided?
Secondary (Acute Care) consists of the following:
Urgent Care centers, hospital Emergency Departments, acute Medical - Surgical centers, outpatient surgery hospitals, and radiological procedures.
LATERAL VIOLENCE
What occurs in nurse-to-nurse interactions and includes behaviors such as withholding information, making snide remarks, and demonstrating nonverbal expressions of disapproval?
The first professionally educated African American nurse, concerned with relationships between cultures and races.
Who is Mary Mahoney?
Effective _________________ strategies are fundamental to providing quality care, coordinating and managing patient care, and advocating for patients.
What is communication?
According to Benner (2022), this describes a beginning nursing student or any nurse entering a situation in which there is no previous level of experience.
What is a Novice?
Examples include Intensive Care Units, inpatient psychiatric facilities, and specialty care such as neurology, cardiology, rheumatology, dermatology, and oncology.
What is Tertiary Care?
What healthcare consumers can access to obtain information about patients' perspectives on hospital care.
What is the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS)?
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster
These nurses were responsible for focusing on the health needs of poor people who lived in tenements in New York City; they opened the Henry Street Settlement.
Works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development of health care agencies, and patient education departments.
What is a nurse educator?
A term used to describe a state of burnout and secondary traumatic stress; it occurs without warning and often results from giving high levels of energy and compassion over a prolonged period to those who are suffering without experiencing improved patient outcomes.
What is compassion fatigue?
Rehabilitation programs such as cardiovascular, pulmonary, and orthopedic. Sports medicine. Spinal cord injury programs. Home care.
What are examples of Restorative Care?
In this role, the nurse helps patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing process.
What is the Caregiver?
Founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung disease. The patient wants to go home on oxygen and be comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and benefits of the surgery to the family and discusses the patient's wishes with them The nurse is acting as the patient's _____________.
What is an advocate?
An essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
What is autonomy?
Assisted living, older adult day care.
What are two examples of Continuing Care?
She is considered the first practicing nurse epidemiologist.
Who is Florence Nighingale?
Manages patient care and the delivery of specific nursing services within a health care agency. Examples include Clinical Care Coordinators.
What is a Nurse Administrator?