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NUR 215 Exam 1 Questions and Verified Detailed Answers | Latest Update Why is nursing considered a profession? - Education, knowledge, selfless concern for others, follow a code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability, and responsibility, professional organizations What is a nurse? - H...

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NUR 215 Exam 1 Questions and Verified
Detailed Answers | Latest Update

Why is nursing considered a profession? - ✔✔Education, knowledge, selfless

concern for others, follow a code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability,

and responsibility, professional organizations

What is a nurse? - ✔✔Highly trained, well educated, caring, and competent.

6 basic skills - ✔✔critical thinking skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Leadership skills

Advocacy

technical skills

4 basic principals of nursing - ✔✔Advocacy

Responsibility

Accountability

Confidentiality

6 ethical principles of nursing - ✔✔autonomy, beneficence, fidelity, justice, non-

maleficence, veracity

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, autonomy - ✔✔the right of the patient to make decisions about their medical

care w/out their healthcare provider trying to influence their decisions

beneficence - ✔✔address the idea that a nurse's actions should only promote

good

fidelity - ✔✔The nurse must be faithful to the promises they made as

professionals to provide quality care

justice - ✔✔the nurse needs to be impartial and fair to each patient

Non-Maleficence - ✔✔nurse must be non-harming or inflicting the least amount

of harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome

veracity - ✔✔must be honest and tell the truth

History of nursing - ✔✔transformed to a women dominated profession in the

19th and 20th century, had to become licensed in order to work in the

profession in 1903 in the US

angel of mercy - ✔✔religion based and shows nurses as self-sacrificing, moral

and noble

battle Ax - ✔✔showed nurses as cruel torturers, includes the bossy nurse

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