Dimensions of Nursing FINAL Study Guide,
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Evidence Based Practice - ✔✔is the practice of nursing in which
interventions are based on data from research that demonstrates that they
are appropriate and successful.
Referent Power - ✔✔dependent on establishing and maintaining a close
personal relationship with someone, either client or colleague.
Expert Power - ✔✔derives from the amount of knowledge, skill, or
expertise that an individual or group has
Reward Power - ✔✔depends on the ability of one person to grant another
some type of reward for specific behaviors or changes in behavior
Coercive Power - ✔✔the ability to reprimand, withhold rewards, and
threaten punishment.
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,Legitimate Power - ✔✔depends on a legislative or legal act that gives the
individual or organization a right to make decisions that they might not
otherwise have the authority to make
Collective Power - ✔✔often used in a broader context than individual
client care and is the underlying source for many other sources of power
Hippocrates - ✔✔Beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead
of on appeasing the gods. He emphasized treating the whole client, mind,
body, spirit, and environment and making diagnoses on the basis of
symptoms rather than on an isolated idea of a disease. He was also
concerned with ethical standards for physicians, expressed in the now-
famous Hippocratic Oath.
Hippocratic Oath - ✔✔One of the oldest binding documents in history, and
is still held sacred by physicians: to treat the ill to the best of one's ability,
to preserve a patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next
generation, and so on.
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔the founder of modern nursing, in 1851, she
attended a 3-month nurses' training program at the church-run hospital in
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,Kaiserswerth, Germany. Took a group of 37 volunteer nurses into the
battlefield area, in the Crimean War, and after 6 months of the nurses help,
mortality rate dropped from 42 percent to 2 percent. Nightingale
supervised 125 nurses in several large hospitals, and advocated a program
of at least 1 year that included basic biological science, techniques to
improve nursing care, and supervised practice.
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery - ✔✔Opened in
1860 and began to train nurses, advocated health maintenance and the
concept that nursing was both an art and a science, and taught that each
person should be treated as an individual and that nurses should meet the
needs of clients, not the demands of physicians. Many early graduates
went on to become important nursing leaders, and Nightingale's ideas
resurfaced and are now evaluated in the light of a rapidly changing health-
care system.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - ✔✔her conviction that nurses needed a
solid theoretical education, she dedicated her life to raising the standards
of nursing education in the United States, and was the first as director of
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, the Illinois Training School for Nurses, headed the new Johns Hopkins
Training School for Nurses.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb Facts - ✔✔Formed the American Society of
Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses and served as chairwoman.
In 1896, she became the first president of a group called the Nurses
Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which would later
become the American Nurses Association (ANA). Robb helped develop the
still the official journal called the American Journal of Nursing, the first
professional journal for nursing.
Lillian Wald - ✔✔Opened a storefront health clinic called the Henry Street
Settlement in New York. Wald became a dedicated social reformer, an
efficient fundraiser, and an eloquent speaker, and advocated wellness
education. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company saw value in her beliefs
and asked her to organize its nursing branch, and she founded the
American Red Cross's Town and Country Nursing Service.
Lillian Wald Facts - ✔✔She founded and became the first president of the
National Organization for Public Health Nursing, was the first to place
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Dimensions of Nursing Test 2, Rasmussen Dimensions
of Nursing Test 2 Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Evidence Based Practice - ✔✔is the practice of nursing in which
interventions are based on data from research that demonstrates that they
are appropriate and successful.
Referent Power - ✔✔dependent on establishing and maintaining a close
personal relationship with someone, either client or colleague.
Expert Power - ✔✔derives from the amount of knowledge, skill, or
expertise that an individual or group has
Reward Power - ✔✔depends on the ability of one person to grant another
some type of reward for specific behaviors or changes in behavior
Coercive Power - ✔✔the ability to reprimand, withhold rewards, and
threaten punishment.
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,Legitimate Power - ✔✔depends on a legislative or legal act that gives the
individual or organization a right to make decisions that they might not
otherwise have the authority to make
Collective Power - ✔✔often used in a broader context than individual
client care and is the underlying source for many other sources of power
Hippocrates - ✔✔Beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead
of on appeasing the gods. He emphasized treating the whole client, mind,
body, spirit, and environment and making diagnoses on the basis of
symptoms rather than on an isolated idea of a disease. He was also
concerned with ethical standards for physicians, expressed in the now-
famous Hippocratic Oath.
Hippocratic Oath - ✔✔One of the oldest binding documents in history, and
is still held sacred by physicians: to treat the ill to the best of one's ability,
to preserve a patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next
generation, and so on.
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔the founder of modern nursing, in 1851, she
attended a 3-month nurses' training program at the church-run hospital in
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,Kaiserswerth, Germany. Took a group of 37 volunteer nurses into the
battlefield area, in the Crimean War, and after 6 months of the nurses help,
mortality rate dropped from 42 percent to 2 percent. Nightingale
supervised 125 nurses in several large hospitals, and advocated a program
of at least 1 year that included basic biological science, techniques to
improve nursing care, and supervised practice.
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery - ✔✔Opened in
1860 and began to train nurses, advocated health maintenance and the
concept that nursing was both an art and a science, and taught that each
person should be treated as an individual and that nurses should meet the
needs of clients, not the demands of physicians. Many early graduates
went on to become important nursing leaders, and Nightingale's ideas
resurfaced and are now evaluated in the light of a rapidly changing health-
care system.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - ✔✔her conviction that nurses needed a
solid theoretical education, she dedicated her life to raising the standards
of nursing education in the United States, and was the first as director of
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, the Illinois Training School for Nurses, headed the new Johns Hopkins
Training School for Nurses.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb Facts - ✔✔Formed the American Society of
Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses and served as chairwoman.
In 1896, she became the first president of a group called the Nurses
Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which would later
become the American Nurses Association (ANA). Robb helped develop the
still the official journal called the American Journal of Nursing, the first
professional journal for nursing.
Lillian Wald - ✔✔Opened a storefront health clinic called the Henry Street
Settlement in New York. Wald became a dedicated social reformer, an
efficient fundraiser, and an eloquent speaker, and advocated wellness
education. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company saw value in her beliefs
and asked her to organize its nursing branch, and she founded the
American Red Cross's Town and Country Nursing Service.
Lillian Wald Facts - ✔✔She founded and became the first president of the
National Organization for Public Health Nursing, was the first to place
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