Rasmussen Dimensions in Nursing Exam 1 Concepts’ Summary

Nursing as a profession - ###Use assessment skills and knowledge, have the ability to reason, and make routine judgements based on clients' condition. Registered Nurse - ###Educated at the level of associate, diploma, or baccalaureate level. Considered the cornerstone of health-care. Nurse Practioner - ###Provide direct client care in primary care setting, focus on health promotion, prevention of illness, early diagnosis, and treatment of common health problems. Clinical Nurse Specialist - ###Practice in secondary or tertiary care, focus on individuals experiencing acute illness or exacerbation of a chronic condition. Case Managers - ###Coordinate services for clients with high-risk or long-term health problems. ADN - ###Developed by Mildred Montague to provide quality nursing care equivalent to BSN in less time, 2 years. LPN - ###Learning of nursing skills and less on theoretical knowledge. Learn how to do something, not why. 9 to 12 months. Referent power - ###Establishing and maintaining a close relationship with someone. Nurses est. therapeutic relationship with client. Expert power - ###Amount of knowledge, skill, or expertise an individual or group has. Used or withheld to influence behavior of others. Nurses use to teach, counsel, motivate clients. Power of rewards - ###Ability of one person to grant another a reward for behavior or changes in behavior. (Behavior modification) Coercive Power - ###Ability to reprimand, withhold rewards, and threaten punishment. Not good for nursing. Legitimate Power - ###Legislative or legal act that gives the individual or organization a right to make decisions that they might not otherwise have authority to make. Nurses licensed by state under provisions of nurse practice act and appointed positions in health-care agency. Collective power - ###Large group of individuals who have similar beliefs, desires, or needs become organized. Professional Unity - ###A way to gain power in nursing. Join a group such as ANA. Political activity - ###A way to gain power in nursing by becoming politically active to help make decisions that affect nursing. Accountability and Professionalism - ###A way to gain power in nursing where high-quality care standards are established. Competency in nursing is demonstrated, peer reviews, and evaluations. Networking - ###A way nursing can gain power by establishing a nurse support network to help promote and develop the best nurses to the highest positions. National League for Nursing - ###Regulates the quality of nursing programs that prepare nurses for the practice of nursing. Licensing body for all nursing schools. American Nurses Association - ###Concerned with the quality of nursing practice in health-care. Nursing code of ethics. Improve healthcare and standards of nursing. Nursing - ###The protection, promotion, and optimization of clients' health and abilities, the prevention of disease and illness, and the alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response to injury. Ancient Greek medicine - ###Focused on appeasing the gods. Included abortion and infanticide. Hot baths at spas improved health and sick were cared for in clinics. Hippocrates Father of Medicine - ###Focused on harmony of natural law. Emphasized treating the whole client-mind, body, spirit, environment-making diagnosis based on symptoms rather than disease. Ethical standards of physicians. Roman empire - ###Had 600 medications derived from plants and herbs. Were able to distinguish conditions and performed surgeries. Physical therapy for athletes; diagnosed infections; identified job related dangers of lead, mercury, asbestos; published medical textbooks. Early nursing - ###Provided in home by a family member or in a roadside hospital. Major Christian influence. Learned by trial and error and watching others. Dark ages - ###Plagues and diseases rampant. Monasteries and convents centers for care. Religious rituals combined with home remedies. Cleanliness and hygiene discovered during this period. Nurses learned from nuns or monks. Crusades - ###Military nurses were men who wore armor suits with a Red Cross and cared for injured. Healthcare in the Renaissance - ###Inventions: microscope and thermometer. Resto