Leading Ladies of Nursing
Developed the American Red Cross in 1881.
Clara Barton
A dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher level of functioning, achieving an optimal balance between internal and external environment.
Wellness
This stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs falls in the middle and includes affection and acceptance by peers and the community.
Love and Belongingness
Signed and witnessed documents that provide specific instructions for health care treatment if a person is unable to make these decisions personally at the time they are needed.
Advance directives
Freedom of personal choice, a right to be independent and make decisions freely.
Autonomy
The first trained nurse in America. She was responsible for the development of the first nursing and hospital records.
Linda Richards
Self-actualization
The laws that formally define and limit the scope of nursing practice.
Nurse Practice Acts
Nurses function on the first, most fundamental principle which is...
Mary Eliza Mahoney
The range of a person's total health is described along this continuum.
Wellness-Illness Continuum
This stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is located second from the top and includes things like self-respect, feelings of self-worth, and self-confidence.
Esteem
Access to health care without prejudice, treatment with respect and dignity at all times, privacy and confidentiality, personal safety, and complete information about one's own condition and treatment
Patient's rights
Do no harm
Nonmaleficence
Developed public health nursing in the United States through the founding of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.
Lillian Wald
Represents a diminished or impaired state of health.
Illness
This stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is second from the bottom and includes feelings of stability, protection, and freedom from fear and anxiety.
Safety and Security
The unlawful touching of a person - an intent to harm is not necessary.
Civil battery
Absence of due care; failure to act in a manner demonstrating the care and knowledge any prudent individual would.
Negligence
She became the superintendent of a charity hospital for ill governesses in 1853 at age 33 and was asked to head a Barrack Hospital where her dedication and empathic treatment of the soldiers was respected. She had the nickname of "Lady of the Lamp".
Florence Nightingale
The type of health promotion that seeks to avoid disease states through wellness activities and preemptive screening programs such as mammograms, colonoscopies, and glucose screening.
Primary prevention
This stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs includes basic needs like elimination, oxygenation, nutrition, and sexuality and is located at the base of the pyramid.
Physiologic
Full disclosure of the facts a patient needs to make an intelligent (informed) decision before any invasive treatment or procedure is performed.
Doctrine of informed consent
Professional negligence that includes: a duty, a breach of that duty, harm to the patient, and the breach was the main cause of the harm. If found guilty of this, the nurse is subject to legal punishment or restitution as the court determines.
Malpractice