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Nursing Fundamentals
Nursing Fundamentals
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1. Who was the founder of mod- Florence Nightingale
ern nursing and made it into
a profession?

2. Who was the founder of the Clara Barton
Red Cross?

3. Who established the Frontier Mary Breckenridge
Nursing Service and one of
the first midwifery schools in
the U.S.?

4. Who was a pioneering cru- Dorthea Dix
sader for the reform of the
treatment of the mentally ill?

5. Who founded Planned Par- Margaret Sanger
enthood?

6. What association defines The ANA: American Nurses Association
nursing as "the protection,
promotion and optimization
of health and abilities, pre-
vention of illness and in-
jury, alleviation of suffer-
ing through the diagnosis
and treatment of human
response, and advocacy in
the care of individuals, fami-
lies, communities, and popu-
lations."?

7.


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What is the purpose of 1. Provide definition of nursing.
the American Nurses Associa- 2. Defines scope and standards of practice.
tion? 3. Professional regulating body.

8. Assessing Systematic and continuous collection, analysis, validation, and
communication of patient data, or information.

9. Database Includes all the pertinent patient information collected by the
nurse and other health care professionals.

10. Six Nursing Standards 1. Assessment.
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation

11. Initial Assessment The type of nursing assessment that is performed during the
nurse's initial contact with the patient and involves collecting
data about all aspects of the patient's health.

12. Nursing History Identifies the patient's health status, strengths, health prob-
lems, health risks, and need for nursing care.

13. Medical Assessments v. Nurs- Medical assessments target data pointing to pathologic condi-
ing Assessments tions; nursing assessments focus on the patient's responses to
health problems.

14. Nursing Assessment Charac- 1. Purposeful.
teristics 2. Prioritized.
3. Systematic.
4. Factual and accurate.




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5. Relevant.
6. Recorded in a standard manner.

15. Types of Nursing Assess- 1. Initial Assessment.
ments 2. Focused Assessment.
3. Emergency Assessment.
4. Time-lapsed Assessment.

16. Focused Assessment The nurse gathers data about a specific problem that has
already been identified.

17. Emergency Assessment When a physiologic or psychological crisis presents, the nurse
performs an emergency assessment to identify life threatening
problems.

18. Time-Lapsed Assessment Scheduled to compare a patient's current status to the baseline
data obtained earlier.

19. Subjective v. Objective Data Subjective: Information perceived by the patient (symptoms).
Objective: Observable and measurable data that can be seen,
heard, felt or measured by someone other than the person
experiencing them (signs).

20. Observation The conscious and deliberate use of the five physical senses to
gather information.

21. Interview Planned communication to obtain communication data.

22. The interview occurs in 4 1. The preparatory phase.
phases: 2. Introduction.
3. Working phase.
4. Termination.

23.


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Purpose of Nursing Assess- It provides information that is critical to the development of a
ment plan of action that enhances personal health status.

24. Rest Condition in which the body is in a decreased state of activity,
with the consequent feeling of being refreshed.

25. Sleep State of rest accompanied by altered consciousness and rel-
ative inactivity/recurrent altered state of consciousness that
occurs for sustained periods.

26. What is a common NANDA di- "Sleep pattern disturbance..."
agnosis in a sleep study clinic?

27. What part of the brain conrols Hypothalamus.
the sleep center?

28. _____ rhythm varies from per- Circadian; BP; body temperature; hunger; sleep.
son to person and is essen-
tially our "biological clock."
It controls _____, _____ _____,
_____, and _____.

29. How many days of recovery 1 day.
does a person need for each
time zone crossed?

30. There are 2 phases of sleep. NREM and REM.
What are they?

31. What occurs in NREM Stage I Dozing or feelings of drifting off to sleep, easily awakened, in-
and how much time is spent somniacs have longer stage I periods than normal...5 minutes
in this stage?

32.

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