Affordable Care Act - Answer - ✔ Improving HC quality, while lowering costs, increasing
access for all, encouraging prevention, and providing protection to those who access
HC services
American Nurses Association - Answer - ✔ established standards for both nursing
practice and professional performance.
Standards include standards of nursing practice and the standards of professional
performance
Chain of Infection - Answer - ✔ Sequence: infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit,
mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host.
Florence Nightingale- Lady of the Lamp - Answer - ✔ Pioneering the first correlation
between infection and unclean conditions
- recognize importance of careful data collection by note-taking and hand drawing
graphs and charts to correlate cleanliness and health
- report data to authorities to create change
- recognized the connection of calming fears and instilling hope and their positive impact
upon healing.
Types of Nursing Degrees - Answer - ✔ Includes associates, bachelors, and masters
degrees with varying levels of education and specialization.
Medicare and Medicaid - Answer - ✔ Two federally funded healthcare programs
providing medical assistance to specific groups.
Compact State License - Answer - ✔ Allows nurses to practice in multiple states with
one license, excluding Nevada and California, and work as a travel nurse.
- telework
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Answer - ✔ Support role for nurses, assisting with
patient care under the supervision of registered nurses. Tasks include: feeding, lifting,
ADL's,, measuring and recording VS, ambulating clients.
Signs and Symptoms of Illness - Answer - ✔ chills, sore throat, fatigue, malaise, change
in LOC, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, localized
pain/discomfort
Lab Value for Infection - Answer - ✔ White blood cell count (WBC) is often looked at
when assessing for infection.