Scope & Standards
The body that can revise and amend the scope and standards of nursing
Who is the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
What is the code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements?
Nurses' contract with society
What is Nursing's Social Policy Statement
Three foundational documents that guide nurses in their professional commitments
What are the Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, Code of Ethics for Nurses, and Nursing's Social Policy Statement
A field of inquiry characterized by a unique perspective and a distinct way of viewing phenomena
What is an academic discipline?
Nursing integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence. Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations in recognition of the connection of all humanity.
What is the Definition of Nursing?
The number of provisions in the Code of Ethics for Nurses
What is nine?
Caring service, primacy of the patient, knowledge, skills, and competence, hazardous service, responsibility & accountability, progress & development, ethical practice, collaboration, promotion of health to the public
What are society's expectations of nursing within the social contract?
Nursing's professional association that carries out self governance activities
Who is the American Nurses Association?
Draws on basic sciences (biology, chemistry), has characteristics of social sciences, and is an applied science
What is nursing science?
The who, what, where, when, why, and how of nursing
What is the scope of nursing practice?
The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health and safety of this person
Who is the patient?
A group of workers that society contracts with to meet its health needs
Who are nurses?
Own knowledge base, authority over education, registration, altruistic service, code of ethics formal training, socialization process, autonomy
What are the characteristics of a profession?
Basic sciences or humanities, academic or professional (practice)
What are ways of classifying disciplines?
The authoritative statements of action and behaviors that all RNs regardless of population, specialty, and setting are expected to perform competently
What are standards of professional nursing practice?
The nurse exercises these values to help her/him recognize the inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of every person
What are compassion and respect?
Autonomy of practice, self-governance, title and practice protection, respect and just remuneration, freedom to practice, workforce sustainability, protection in hazardous service
What are nursing's expectations of society within the social contract?
Education takes place at college or university, education is prolonged, workers have autonomy, values, beliefs, and ethics are an integral part of preparation, decisions are largely based on theory and evidence, workers are committed
What are characteristics of a profession? (vs. an occupation)
An identified philosophy, at least one conceptual framework (perspective) that can deliniate what can be defined as nursing, acceptable methods to pursue the development of nursing knowledge
What distinguishes nursing as a discipline?
Assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching and health promotion, evaluation
What are nursing standards of practice?
The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient whether the patient is...
What is an individual, family, group, community, or population?
The need society recognizes that causes it to enter into a social contract with nursing
What is health?
Work that historically has been perceived as women's work, perceived lack of autonomy and subservience to medicine, lack of standardized education, lack of recognition of unique body of knowledge
What are threats to nursing's recognition as a profession?
Possesses a unique perspective and terminology, and has determined the following: what phenomena are of interest, the context in which phenomena are viewed, what questions to ask, and what methods of research are used, and what evidence is proof
What are characteristics of a discipline?