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FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING
SEVENTH EDITION CHAPTER 1
Accreditation - -Process whereby a professional association or nongovernmental
agency grants recognition to an institution or agency for demonstrated ability in a
special area of practice.
Approved program - -Program that meets minimum standards established by the state
agency responsible for overseeing education programs.
Articulation - -allows nursing programs to plan their curricula collaboratively; the
purpose is to lessen duplication of learning experiences and support a process of
progressive buildup.
Certification - -Process in which an individual or institution, agency, or educational
program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards.
Health - -A condition of physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of
disease or other abnormal conditions.
Health care system - -The complete network of agencies, facilities, and all providers of
health care in a specific geographic area.
Holistic - -Pertaining to the total patient care that considers the physical, emotional,
social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person.
Holistic health care - -A SYSTEM of comprehensive or total patient care that considers
the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person; the
response to the illness and the effect of the illness on the person's ability to meet self-
care needs.
Illness - -An abnormal process in which aspects of the social, emotional, or intellectual
condition and function of a person are diminished or impaired.
Licensure - -The granting of permission by a competent authority (usually government
agency) to an organization or individual to engage in a practice or activity that would
otherwise be illegal.
Patient - -A recipient of a health care service, usually thought of as a recipient who is ill
or hospitalized.
Pesthouses - -________ or hospitals as they were called, were dirty overcrowded
facilities filled with patients
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Portfolio - -is an organized account of an individual's education and professional
accomplishments.
Wellness - -A dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher
level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external
environments.
Dix - -Pioneer crusader for elevation of standards of care for the mentally ill. And
Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Union Army.
Clara barton - -Developed the American Red Cross in 1881.
Ball - -One of the greatest nurse heroines of the Civil War.
Championed the rights and comforts of the soldiers; organized diet kitchens, laundries,
ambulance service; and supervised the nursing staff
Richards - -FIRST trained nurse in AMERICA
Responsible for the development of the first nursing and hospital records.Credited with
the development of our present-day documentation system.
Robb - -Organized the first graded system of theory and practice in the schools of
nursing.
One of the founders of the American Journal of Nursing.
Dock - -Responsible, with Robb, for the organization of the American Society of
Superintendents of Training Schools, which evolved into the National League for
Nursing Education.
Mahoney - -Graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in
1879, becoming the first African-American professional nurse.
Worked for acceptance of African Americans in the nursing profession.
Wald - -Responsible for the development of public health nursing in the United States
through the founding of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.
Nutting - -Developed curriculum concepts and guidelines for student nurses.Assisted in
the development of the International Council of Nurses.
Mary brekenridge - -PIONEER in nurse-midwifery.
Established the Frontier Nursing Service to deliver obstetric care to mothers in the hills
of Kentucky; these nurses traveled on horseback to reach the mothers. File.
Nursing, patient, health, environment - -as early as the 1970s nursing leaders identified
the following four major concepts that were the basis for all nursing models of care
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FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING
SEVENTH EDITION CHAPTER 1
Accreditation - -Process whereby a professional association or nongovernmental
agency grants recognition to an institution or agency for demonstrated ability in a
special area of practice.
Approved program - -Program that meets minimum standards established by the state
agency responsible for overseeing education programs.
Articulation - -allows nursing programs to plan their curricula collaboratively; the
purpose is to lessen duplication of learning experiences and support a process of
progressive buildup.
Certification - -Process in which an individual or institution, agency, or educational
program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards.
Health - -A condition of physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of
disease or other abnormal conditions.
Health care system - -The complete network of agencies, facilities, and all providers of
health care in a specific geographic area.
Holistic - -Pertaining to the total patient care that considers the physical, emotional,
social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person.
Holistic health care - -A SYSTEM of comprehensive or total patient care that considers
the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person; the
response to the illness and the effect of the illness on the person's ability to meet self-
care needs.
Illness - -An abnormal process in which aspects of the social, emotional, or intellectual
condition and function of a person are diminished or impaired.
Licensure - -The granting of permission by a competent authority (usually government
agency) to an organization or individual to engage in a practice or activity that would
otherwise be illegal.
Patient - -A recipient of a health care service, usually thought of as a recipient who is ill
or hospitalized.
Pesthouses - -________ or hospitals as they were called, were dirty overcrowded
facilities filled with patients
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Portfolio - -is an organized account of an individual's education and professional
accomplishments.
Wellness - -A dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher
level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external
environments.
Dix - -Pioneer crusader for elevation of standards of care for the mentally ill. And
Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Union Army.
Clara barton - -Developed the American Red Cross in 1881.
Ball - -One of the greatest nurse heroines of the Civil War.
Championed the rights and comforts of the soldiers; organized diet kitchens, laundries,
ambulance service; and supervised the nursing staff
Richards - -FIRST trained nurse in AMERICA
Responsible for the development of the first nursing and hospital records.Credited with
the development of our present-day documentation system.
Robb - -Organized the first graded system of theory and practice in the schools of
nursing.
One of the founders of the American Journal of Nursing.
Dock - -Responsible, with Robb, for the organization of the American Society of
Superintendents of Training Schools, which evolved into the National League for
Nursing Education.
Mahoney - -Graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in
1879, becoming the first African-American professional nurse.
Worked for acceptance of African Americans in the nursing profession.
Wald - -Responsible for the development of public health nursing in the United States
through the founding of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.
Nutting - -Developed curriculum concepts and guidelines for student nurses.Assisted in
the development of the International Council of Nurses.
Mary brekenridge - -PIONEER in nurse-midwifery.
Established the Frontier Nursing Service to deliver obstetric care to mothers in the hills
of Kentucky; these nurses traveled on horseback to reach the mothers. File.
Nursing, patient, health, environment - -as early as the 1970s nursing leaders identified
the following four major concepts that were the basis for all nursing models of care
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