Nursing Education
refers to a voluntary review process of educational programs by a professional organization known as an accrediting agency, which compares the educational quality of the program with established standards and criteria. (Black, 2024)
Accreditation
Crimean War- hygiene and sanitation, statistician and nurse researcher
"I attribute my success to this- i never gave or took any excuse." (Galen College of Nursing)
Florence Nightingale
The process begins with a particular experience and proceeds to generalizations. (Black, 2024)
Inductive reasoning
mechanism through which a regulatory agency (e.g. state board of nursing) ensures that nurses remain current in their profession. (Black, 2024)
Mandatory continuing education
First American "trained" nurse, introduced the concept of medical records, nurses, notes and doctors orders, reformed the Boston Training School (Galen College of Nursing)
Linda Richards
specific to a given situation and is designed for immediate action. (Black, 2024)
Problem solving
The organization's membership consists if nurses, faculty, healthcare agencies, all types of nursing programs, and Non nursing citizens who are supportive of nursing. (Black, 2024)
National League of Nursing (NLN)
Union Army Superintendent of female nurses, advocate for the mentally Ill, established mental institutions. (Galen College of Nursing)
Dorothea Dix
process in which conclusions are drawn by logical inference from given premises (Black, 2024)
deductive reasoning
Study focused on the clinical learning experiences of students, hospital control of the schools, the desirability of establishing university schools of nursing, the lack of funds specifically for nursing education, and the lack of prepared teachers. (Black, 2024)
Goldmark Report
School nurse, started the first school nursing program, improved the social status of nursing (Galen College of Nursing)
Isabel Hampton Robb
an approach to the delivery of health care that "integrates the best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values." (Black, 2024)
Evidence-based practice