Profession
It is a criteria of profession that differentiates nursing from an occupation pursued primarily for profit.
Service Orientation
TRUE or FALSE: There are five means of entry into registered nursing: hospital diploma, associate degree, baccalaureate degree, master’s degree, and doctoral degree.
TRUE
How many patterns of knowing does Carper have?
A. 1
B.2
C.3
D.4
D.
This is the sum total of rules and regulations by which a society is governed.
Law
This is when nursing research was at a very early stage of development.
a. 1960s
b. 1940s
c. 1880s
d. 1850s
b. 1940s
TRUE or FALSE: Many nursing educators believe that the undergraduate nursing curriculum should not include liberal arts education in addition to the biological and social sciences and the nursing discipline.
FALSE
Give 2 patterns of Knowing.
EMPIRICAL KNOWING
ETHICAL KNOWING
AESTHETIC KNOWING
PERSONAL KNOWING
A legal permit that a government agency grants to individuals to engage in the practice of a profession and to use a particular title.
License
Fill in the blank. "Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the __________________ of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations."
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
TRUE or FALSE: Nurses must withhold the whole truth from clients when it may lead to patient distress.
FALSE. Nurses must NOT withhold the whole truth from clients even when it may lead to patient distress.
Veracity is being completely truthful with patients.
TRUE OR FALSE: Personal knowledge is concerned with the knowing, encountering, and actualizing of the concrete, individual self.
TRUE
TRUE or FALSE: Nurses have the right to refuse any assignment that they feel is unsafe. Such as when a nurse is assigned a patient load he/she feels is unsafe.
TRUE
Give two characteristics a nurse should have.
Any two of the following: Communication, Empathy and Compassion, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Attention to Detail, Integrity and Advocacy, Willingness to Learn.
TRUE or FALSE: Obtaining informed consent for procedures is showing Beneficence.
FALSE. Nurses should only witness, not obtain, informed consent for procedures.
Beneficence is doing good and the right thing for the patient.
TRUE OR FALSE: Personal knowing involves a series of deliberate actions or choices that are subject to the judgment of right or wrong.
FALSE
It is an agreement by a client to accept a course of treatment or a procedure after being provided complete information
Informed Consent
It is is a comprehensive approach to patient care that practices the healing of the whole person.
Holistic Nursing Care
TRUE or FALSE: Nurses should adhere to the principle of maleficence.
FALSE. Nurses should adhere to the principle of nonmaleficence.
Nonmaleficence is doing no harm, as stated in the historical Hippocratic Oath. Harm can be intentional or unintentional.
A type of knowing that focuses on "matters of obligation or what ought to be done."
Ethical Knowing
This is an Act that protects the public by legally defining and describing the scope of nursing practice
Nurse Practice Acts