LPN Exam #1 Questions & Answers Passed Already

How was the first nightingale training school funded? - Answer by service men and their families. Where was the first Nightingale training school for nursing located? - Answer St. Thomas Hospital Apprenticeship - Answer learning by doing interventions - Answer actions taken to improve, maintain, restore health, or prevent illness Practical Nurses take on the role of? - Answer caregiver, educator, collaborator, advocate, and manager invasive procedures - Answer procedures that require entry into the body aseptically - Answer without introducing infectious material nursing theory - Answer a statement about relationships among concepts or facts, bases on existing information Theorist Virginia Henderson's goal (1955) - Answer to help clients gain independence in meeting their needs as quickly as possible Theorist Dorothy Johnson' (1968) goal - Answer to reduce stress, allowing the client to recover as quickly as possible Theorist Martha Rogers (1970) goal - Answer To achieve maximum level of wellness Theorist Dorothea Orem's (1971) goal - Answer To care for and help clients with various needs attain self-care Theorist Betty Neumanns (1972) goal - Answer To help individuals, families, and groups attain and maintain maximum levels of total wellness through purposeful interventions Theorist sister callista Roy (1076) - Answer To identify types of demands placed on client and client's adaptation to them Theorist Jean Watson (1979) goal - Answer To promote health, restore clients to health and prevent illness Theorist Rosemarie Parse (1987) goal - Answer To assist client in interaction with the environment and in co-creating health to sustain a safe and protective environment Theorist Patricia Benner and Judith Wrubel (1989) goal - Answer To care about the client as an individual evidence-based nursing - Answer The integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values to facilitate clinical decision making. Practice acts defines? - Answer activities in which nurses may engage, state the legal requirements and titles for nursing licensure, and establish the education needed for licensure. practice acts designed to? - Answer protect the public, and they define the legal scope of practice. Nursing process - Answer an organized, deliberate, systematic way to deliver nursing care implement - Answer to put into action functional nursing care - Answer the first care delivery of system for the practical nurse total patient care - Answer when one nurse carried out all nursing functions for the patient, including medication administration in an effort to provide less fragmented care for the patient. primary nursing - Answer appeared in the late 1960s and 1970s. One nurse plans and directs care for a patient over a 24-hour period Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) - Answer created by medicare in 1983 as an attempt to contain health care costs. A hospital receives a set amount of money for a patient who is hospitalized with a certain diagnosis. Preventive care - Answer Education, prevention ex: Prenatal care, nutrition counseling, exercise, meditation classes. Primary care - Answer early detection and routine care ex: annual checkups, vision screenings, blood pressure screening, immunization clinic Secondary Care (acute care) - Answer emergency treatment, critical care (intense and elaborate diagnosis treatment) ex: radiologic procedures, lab and diagnostic procedures, surgical procedures, emergency care, physical therapy, home health care. Tertiary Care - Answer special care (highly technical services for clients in a large geographic area) ex: extended care, chronic disease management, medical homes, in-home personal care, hospice care restorative care - Answer intermediate follow-up care( surgical postoperative routine care routine medical care), rehab, home care Continuing care - Answer long-term care, chronic care, personal care, hospice care health maintenance organizations (HMOs) - Answer A type of group practice, enroll patients for a set fee per month. Their goal is to keep patients healthy and out of the hospital Preferred provider organization (PPOs) - Answer offer a discount on fees in return for a large pool of potential patients capitated cost - Answer paid at a set fee for every patient enrolled in the network each year. Clara Barton - Answer founder of the American Red Cross. Phoebe - Answer was the first visiting nurse In the 20th century nurses moved into? - Answer the community lillian wald - Answer established the Henry street settlement service in NYC How long does Advance practice nursing education take - Answer 2-5 years