Nursing Fundamentals Study Guide Resource - Complete Solutions Updated

Nursing Fundamentals Study Guide Resource - Complete Solutions Updated Who was the founder of modern nursing and made it into a profession? - answer - Florence Nightingale Who was the founder of the Red Cross? - answer - Clara Barton Who established the Frontier Nursing Service and one of the first midwifery schools in the U.S.? - answer - Mary Breckenridge Who was a pioneering crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill? - answer - Dorthea Dix Who founded Planned Parenthood? - answer - Margaret Sanger What association defines nursing as "the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations."? - answer - The ANA: American Nurses Association What is the purpose of the American Nurses Association? - answer - 1. Provide definition of nursing. 2. Defines scope and standards of practice. 3. Professional regulating body. Assessing - answer - Systematic and continuous collection, analysis, validation, and communication of patient data, or information. Database - answer - Includes all the pertinent patient information collected by the nurse and other health care professionals. Six Nursing Standards - answer - 1. Assessment. 2. Diagnosis 3. Outcome Identification 4. Planning 5. Implementation 6. Evaluation Initial Assessment - answer - 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. Nursing History - answer - Identifies the patient's health status, strengths, health problems, health risks, and need for nursing care. Medical Assessments v. Nursing Assessments - answer - Medical assessments target data pointing to pathologic conditions; nursing assessments focus on the patient's responses to health problems. Nursing Assessment Characteristics - answer - 1. Purposeful. 2. Prioritized. 3. Systematic. 4. Factual and accurate. 5. Relevant. 6. Recorded in a standard manner. Types of Nursing Assessments - answer - 1. Initial Assessment. 2. Focused Assessment. 3. Emergency Assessment. 4. Time-lapsed Assessment. Focused Assessment - answer - The nurse gathers data about a specific problem that has already been identified. Emergency Assessment - answer - When a physiologic or psychological crisis presents, the nurse performs an emergency assessment to identify life threatening problems. Time-Lapsed Assessment - answer - Scheduled to compare a patient's current status to the baseline data obtained earlier. Subjective v. Objective Data - answer - 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). Observation - answer - The conscious and deliberate use of the five physical senses to gather information. Interview - answer - Planned communication to obtain communication data. The interview occurs in 4 phases: - answer - 1. The preparatory phase. 2. Introduction. 3. Working phase. 4. Termination. Purpose of Nursing Assessment - answer - It provides information that is critical to the development of a plan of action that enhances personal health status. Rest - answer - Condition in which the body is in a decreased state of activity, with the consequent feeling of being refreshed. Sleep - answer - State of rest accompanied by altered consciousness and relative inactivity/recurrent altered state of consciousness that occurs for sustained periods. What is a common NANDA diagnosis in a sleep study clinic? - answer - "Sleep pattern disturbance..." What part of the brain conrols the sleep center? - answer - Hypothalamus. _____ rhythm varies from person to person and is essentially our "biological clock." It controls _____, _____ _____, _