Nursing Roles
Provides information to the patients upon admission, during their stay, and at discharge.
What is an educator?
A Crimean War soldier was able to recover from his injuries because he was given the best conditions for healing
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This theory was based on caring, dedicated nursing to health and healing
What is Human Caring Theory?
can be acquired through a hospital, combining classroom and clinical and takes approximately 3 years to complete
What is a diploma nurse?
patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, EBP, quality improvement, safety, and informatics
What is the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative?
Assigning vital signs to the nursing assistant
What is a delegator?
She established the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
This theory adjusts to meeting physiological-physical needs, develops positive self-concept-group-identity, social role function, and balances dependence and independence.
What is the Adaptation Model?
Has advanced educational and clinical practice with theoretical research based knowledge
What is an Advanced practice registered nurse or APRN?
clinical competence and accountability, common purpose, interpersonal competence and effective communication, trust and mutual respect, recognition and valuation of diverse complementary knowledge and skills, humor
What are characteristics of teamwork?
Oversees all activities of staff, payroll, and budget
What is a manager?
Graduating in 1873, she was the first trained nurse, graduating from Boston's Women's Hospital
Who was Linda Richards?
Allows nurses to use concepts for their patients at various stages in life.
What is Erikson's Psychosocial theory?
gets 12 to 18 months of training, cannot perform an assessment or formulate a nursing diagnosis or initiate a care plan and sits for the NCLEX
Who is an LVN/LPN?
Lewin's Change theory, Paul's critical-thinking theory, Rosenstock's Health Belief Model
What are nonnursing theories?
Working with more than two persons toward a common goal
What is Collaboration or a collaborator?
After WWII, these two advances brought changes to the principles and practices in health care delivery.
What are science and technology?
This theory predicts certain levels of meeting basic psychological and physiological needs
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Requires pre-requisite courses and curriculum focuses on adult cute and chronic disease, maternal child health, pediatrics, and psychiatric/mental health nursing and sits for the NCLEX
What is the Associate Degree in Nursing or ADN?
Altruism, accountability, lifelong learning, autonomy, diversity, code of ethics
What are criteria for the nursing profession?
Provides strategies, works with patients, staff, organizations, and the community.
What is a Change Agent?
Critical care specialty units were required after WWII and this led to the need of more experienced and skilled nurses.
What are nurse practitioners (NPs)?
believed illness prevention was encouraged by clean air, water, housing, or living conditions
What is Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory?
prepares the nurse for leadership roles in research, teaching, and administration
What is the Doctorial degree? (can be DNP or PhD)
American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of practice, Nurse practice acts, scope of practice, code of ethics
What are practice guidelines?