Governing bodies
Establishes the scope of practice in each state for nurse
What is the Nurse Practice Act
A provider of nursing care during the Crimean War
Who is Florence Nightingale?
written guidelines explaining what type of care a patient wants and under what circumstances if a person is unable to make his or her own decisions
What is an instructional directive?
a nurse touches and feels a patient’s pulses
What is palpation?
a written account of patient care that will be maintained in a chart to serve as a permanent medical record.
What is documentation?
Enforces the Nurse Practice Act
What is the Board of Nursing
Believed in Maintaining an environment free of negative energy
Who is Martha Rogers?
decision-making framework used by all nurses to determine the needs of their patients and to decide how to care for them
What is the nursing process?
technique used to listen to patients lungs
What is auscultation?
Subjective data, Objective data, Assessment data, Plan, Intervention, Evaluation, Revision.
What is SOAPIER documentation?
Health Insurance for people over 65 years old
What is Medicare?
Believed in presence helps patients recognize their own pattern of interacting with the environment.
Who is Margaret Newman?
data are information that is known only to the patient and family members
What is subjective data?
the visual examination of the patient
What is Inspection?
A national standard for patient safety has been established
Who/What is the Joint Commission?
health-care delivery aimed at managing the cost and quality of access to health care
What is Managed Care?
The goal is to help the client attain total self-care.
Who is Dorothea Orem?
data can be observed through the senses of hearing, sight, smell, and touch
What is Objective data?
using tapping movements to detect abnormalities of the internal organs.
What is percussion?
Can you tell me what voices your hearing
What is qualitative open-ended question?
Federal-state program in which the federal government helps states pay for the health care of those with an income below the poverty level
What is Medicaid?
Nursing theory focuses on cultural care diversity and universality theory.
Who is Madeleine M. Leininger ?
When the patient provides information
What is primary data?
deals with air, food and temperature regulation
What is Maslow's Hierarchy level of Physiological needs?
Nurse asks patient if has allergies or if has even taken a medication that will be given for the first time
What is critical thinking?