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Fundamentals of Nursing All Solutions
origination of the word "nurse" - Answers✓✓from the latin word "nutrix" meaning to nourish
Interrelated roles of nurses - Answers✓✓communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher,
advocate, collaborator
coping with disability and death - Answers✓✓nurses use optimal function of maximum
strengths and potentials, refer to community support systems; provide care to families and
patients during end-of-life care, hospice
The Nursing Process - Answers✓✓-one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Nurse Practice Acts - Answers✓✓-define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal requirements and titles for
RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
5 vital signs - Answers✓✓respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
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Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria - Answers✓✓-well defined body
specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale - Answers✓✓defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated
nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing education, published books; founder of
modern nursing
Clara Barton - Answers✓✓established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed union
soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the army of James
sources of knowledge - Answers✓✓-traditional ( passed down from generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective - Answers✓✓you can see the object
subjective - Answers✓✓coming from that subject
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types of knowledge - Answers✓✓-science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating,
and explaining events and occurences that are perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes used to develop
and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a desired result)
goals of nursing research - Answers✓✓-improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics, nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
deductive reasoning - Answers✓✓examines a general idea and then considers specific actions
or ideas
inductive reasoning - Answers✓✓one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about
general ideas
health - Answers✓✓a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
illness - Answers✓✓the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal process
involving changed level of functioning
wellness - Answers✓✓an active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle promoting good
physical, mental, and emotional health