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Nightingale - ✔✔Founder of modern nursing, Implemented during Crimean, improved
sanitation, implemented research
Seacole - ✔✔Jamaican minority, setup clinics during crimean war
Dix - ✔✔Asylum movement, reform for mentally ill & prisoners
Barton - ✔✔first president of American Red Cross
Mahoney - ✔✔First African American nurse in the US
Wald - ✔✔Henry Street Settlement, first public health nurse
Ford - ✔✔started first NP program
Nutting - ✔✔Graduated from Johns Hopkins, expanded nursing curriculum to 2-3 yrs,
added clinicals, limited hours students could work, established the library there, and
Army Nurse Corps
Richards - ✔✔The first trained nurse in the United States, started Japanese nursing
program, created pt records & night shift
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,Patient Abandonment - ✔✔Terminating the relationship with the patient without
giving reasonable notice or providing a competent replacement, resulting in a lack of
necessary medical care
Assault - ✔✔threat or attempt to injure
Battery - ✔✔physical harm
Boundary Crossing - ✔✔a departure from a commonly accepted practice that could
potentially benefit a client (non-exploitative)
Boundary Violation - ✔✔a serious breach that results in harm to clients and is therefore
unethical (exploitative)
BON Purpose - ✔✔To protect and promote welfare of people in Texas ensuring that
each person who holds a license as a nurse is competent to practice safely. (SAFETY)
Informed Consent - ✔✔Pt knows Pros AND Cons of procedure, detailed description of
its purpose and who is performing the procedure. Surgeon's responsibility to get
consent. RNs responsibility to ensure pt understands
UTMB honor pledge - ✔✔On my honor, as a member of the UTMB community, I
pledge to act with integrity, compassion, and respect in all my academic and
professional endeavors.
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, Professionalism - ✔✔The quality of performing at a high level and conducting oneself
with purpose and pride
EBP (evidence based practice) from IOM (institute of Medicine) - ✔✔Integrating best
research with clinical expertise and pt values for optimum care and participating in
learning and research activities to the extent flexible
Steps in EBP Process - ✔✔-Cultivating a spirit of inquiry
-Asking clinical questions
-Searching for the best evidence (literature review)
-Critically appraising the evidence
-Integrating the evidence with clinical expertise, client preferences, and values*
-Evaluating the outcomes of the practice decisions or changes based on evidence
-Share EBP results
Evidence of Hierarchy Pyramid - ✔✔- Systematic reviews and metaanalysis of RCTs
- One well-designed RCT
- Well-designed controlled trials w/o randomization
- Well-designed case control studies
- Systematic reviews of descriptive and qualitative studies
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