Famous Healthcare Pioneers
Dorothea Dix is best known for advocating for people with this type of health condition.
What is mental illness?
A nurse speaks up when a patient's wishes are not being respected and makes sure the patient's concerns are heard.
What is advocacy?
This is the nurse’s legal and ethical responsibility to provide safe, competent care according to professional standards.
What is professional responsibility?
This level of prevention focuses on preventing disease or injury before it occurs, such as receiving a vaccination.
What is Primary Prevention?
Before delegating a task, the nurse asks, “Is this task appropriate for someone else to perform, based on their scope of practice and competency?”
What is the Right Task?
Walt Whitman was a famous American poet who spent time caring for these people during the Civil war.
Who are wounded and sick soldiers?
A nurse accepts ownership for their actions, decisions, and the care they provide to a patient.
What is accountability?
A client has the right to receive information about their condition and proposed treatment so they can make an informed decision.
What is the right to informed consent?
A nurse encourages adults to have regular blood pressure screenings so hypertension can be identified early. This is an example of this level of prevention.
What is Secondary Prevention?
A nurse considers the client’s condition, available resources, and overall clinical environment before deciding whether to delegate a task.
What is the Right Circumstance?
Clara Barton founded this organization in the United States in 1881
Clara Barton
A nurse protects a patient's private health information and does not discuss it with people who are not involved in the patient's care.
What is confidentiality?
A nurse gives a medication without checking the client’s allergies, resulting in harm. This type of professional negligence is called this.
What is malpractice?
A client who has experienced a stroke participates in rehabilitation to improve mobility and regain independence. This represents this level of prevention.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
A nurse asks, “Does this person have the education, training, and competency to safely perform this task?”
What is the Right Person?
Florence Nightingale became famous for caring for soldiers during this war.
What is the Crimean War?
A nurse is expected to complete assigned duties, follow professional standards, and provide safe and competent patient care.
What is responsibility?
A nurse notices that a client does not understand the procedure they are about to sign consent for. The nurse should take this action.
What is stop and notify the healthcare provider responsible for obtaining informed consent?
A client with a chronic illness receives ongoing care, education, monitoring, and support to maintain their health and prevent complications. This is known as this level of care/prevention.
What is Continuing Prevention?
When delegating, the nurse must clearly explain what needs to be done, when it should be completed, and what information should be reported back.
What are Right Direction and Communication?
Nightingale believed that hospitals should be improved through cleanliness, fresh air, sanitation, and what important resource?
What is clean water?
A nurse discovers that a medication error has occurred. Instead of hiding the mistake, the nurse reports it according to policy, informs the appropriate healthcare professional, and takes steps to protect the patient.
What is accountability?
This occurs when a nurse fails to act as a reasonably prudent nurse would under similar circumstances.
What is negligence?
A nurse teaches a healthy teenager about exercise, nutrition, and avoiding tobacco use before the teenager develops a chronic disease. Identify the level of prevention.
What is Primary Prevention?
After delegating a task, the nurse remains accountable for appropriate follow-up, evaluates the outcome, and intervenes if needed.
What is Right Supervision and Evaluation?