Unit 1
Chapter 1-6
The Evolution of Nursing Exam Unit 1 Chapters 1-6 Tuesday January 16th
2018
- Lisensure
¥ The granting of permission by the overseeing authority to engage in practice or activity that
would otherwise be illegal
¥ Protect the public from unqualified practitioners
¥ Managed by state agencies such as the state board of nursing
¥ The states determine different scopes of practice
¥ Slander: bad mouth someone else's practice
¥ Torts: A type of civil law that involves wrongs against a person or property: torts include
negligence, sassily, battery, defaming, fraud, false imprisonment, and invasion of privacy
- Accreditation
¥ A higher standard that signifies that the accrediting organization has judged that a program
has met its pre-established criteria.
- Reciprocity
¥ A mutual agreement to exchange privileges, dependence, or relationships, such as an
agreement between two governing bodies to accept the credentials of caregivers licensed in
each others state.
- Maslow Hierarchy
¥ Physiological: Breathing, nutrition
¥ Safety: Stability, protection, security
¥ Love and belongingness: affection, acceptance
¥ Esteem: deal respect, self confidence
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¥ Self actualization: full use of individual talents
- History of Public Health
¥ Florence Nightingale: The first nursing theorist
¥ Clara Barton: Developed the American red cross
¥ Who put public health nursing together? Lillian Wald
- History of Red Cross
¥ Clara Barton 1881
- Holistic Care
¥ This care requires that professionals from differing areas come together to provide
comprehensive care
- Scope of Nursing Practice
¥ It is important to know your role as a Nurse my only doing what you are licensed to do.
Doing something beyond that point is going away from your scope of practice.
- Nursing of Nursing Dx
¥ Purpose of Dx: be able to identify the interventions
¥ Maslow Hierarchy is needed when needed to set priorities of care
¥ Anything physical issue trumps a psychosocial issue
¥ Interventions are to meet the pt outcomes/goals
¥ Steps of Nsg Dx
¥ Assess - Subjective and Objective
¥ Nsg Dx: Identifying problem and list possible risk complications
¥ Outcomes: Goals of what is expected for pt ÒThe patient willÉÓ
¥ Plan/Intervention: Nursing orders ÒCNA willÉÓ
¥ Evaluation: Was the goal met and everything gets revised
- Standard of Care
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¥ Define acts whose performance is required, permitted, or prohibited.
¥ You cannot reject a given assessment but you may ask to work with someone who is more
experienced in that area
¥ Ethical principles
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- Good Samaritan Law Nursing Assignment
¥ Nurses are not required to offer assistance when they are acting as a Òprivate citizenÓ BUT
if they choose to offer help, liability may be limited under Good Samaritan laws.
¥ These statues have been developed to provide immunity from liability in certain
circumstances.
- Defendant
¥ Being sued
¥ States the facts involved in the legal issues raised and outlines the damages
¥ The person who is allegedly liable
¥ Is the nurse in most cases
- Plantiff
¥ The complaining party
¥ Making the claim of malpractice
¥ person suing
- Counsel
¥ Lawyer
- NANDA
¥ North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International
¥ Nursing Dx- Clinical judgement about actual or potential individual, family, or community
responses to health problems/life processes. It provides the basis for selection of nursing
interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nursing has accountability.
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