improved patient outcomes, prevention of premature mortality, and increased hospital profitability.
What is the purpose of advocacy?
100
The process whereby workers organize under the representation of a union in order to negotiate with management on selected aspects of employment.
What is collective bargaining?
100
This limits the number of students admitted to nursing programs.
What is the faculty shortage.
100
The initials PAC stand for this organization.
What is Political Action Commitee?
200
Protect the public and the title of the RN
What is purpose of the Nurse Practice Act?
200
Patient advocacy and safety.
What are the cornerstones of the nursing profession?
200
A work stoppage usually taking place to protest unfair labor practices.
What is a strike?
200
According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, this is the largest healthcare occupation.
What is nursing?
200
The organization that was founded to advocate for all nurses both union and non-union.
What is the ANA ( American Nursing Association)?
300
Good moral character, HS or GED transcript, completion of state approved diploma, ADN, or BSN program.
What are the requirements for licensure?
300
Biologic, ergonomic, chemical, psychological, and physical.
What are the types of workplace hazards?
300
Two types of these exist, single- and double-purpose.
What are union authorization cards?
300
Nursing is expected to create over 1.5 million new jobs by this year.
What is 2016?
300
This is the health policy that will increase funding for nursing education.
What is The Health Care and Education Affordability Act of 2010?
400
National League of Nurses (NLN)
Who is the accrediting agency of ADN programs?
400
Two examples of this include promoting and protecting the occupational safety and health of nurses and using the political process to influence legislative and regulatory agencies for the protection of the nurses and patients.
What is workforce advocacy?
400
This federal agency was established in 1935 as part of the National Labor Relations Act.
What is the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board)?
400
The need to replace retiring nurses, technologic advances that result more specialized care, the rapid aging population, and an increasing emphasis on preventative care.
What are reasons that jobs will open up?
400
The two types of health policy.
What is public and private?
500
Letter to second state, proof of current license?
What is required to obtain an out-of-state license?
500
This prevents healthcare organizations from retaliating against nurses when the professional nurse in good faith discloses information or participates in agency investigations.
What is whistle-blower protection?
500
This legislation in 1947 removed charitable institutions, including nonprofit hospitals, from the NRLA, a provision that stood until 1974.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
500
The number of qualified applicants turned away from nursing programs as reported by the National League of Nursing (NLN) in 2009.
What is 99,000?
500
These are two types of local health policies.
What are Medicaid, SCHIP, health care for prisoners, mental health, and substance abuse services?