and ANSWERS 2025-2026 UPDATE
What is perception? -✔✔ANS The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something
through our senses.
Internal Perception Influences -✔✔ANS influences from people within the profession
External Perception Influences -✔✔ANS influences from people outside
Perception in 1800s -✔✔ANS Charles Dickens--Sairy Gamp - drunken, uncaring nurs
profiting on sick and dying
Reality in 1800s -✔✔ANS -Florence Nightingale
Sacrifice and service
Perceptions of early 1900's -✔✔ANS Margaret Hoolihan (Hot Lips)
Nurse Ratched
late 1800s and early 1900s -✔✔ANS Harriet Tubman--Underground RR
Sojourner Truth--clean and sanitary conditions
Susie King Taylor--Company C
Walt Whitman--Nurse volunteer
Clara Barton--Civil War
Louisa May Alcott--wrote articles for newspaper
,Reality of 1900s -✔✔ANS Edith Cavell - Founder of nursing school in Belgium
Clara Maass - Died at 25 from Yellow Fever, Assisted in developing critical care units
perception of 1930-40's -✔✔ANS -Professionals
-Glamorized in media
- Low income, long hours, understaffed
perception of 1950-70's -✔✔ANS - nurse ratched
- margaret hoolhan
reality in 1900s -✔✔ANS - Clara Mass
- First NP Program
- Assisted in developing critical care units
Early 1980-90's perception -✔✔ANS -media began to show accurate portrayals
Social Media...The good -✔✔ANS able to change public perception of what we do and wh
we do it
Social media...The bad -✔✔ANS - Breach of professional boundaries
- violation of patient privacy
Results of the bad in social media -✔✔ANS -loss of job
- expulsion from school
- revocation of license
Leader -✔✔ANS ensure safe, high quality care
care -✔✔ANS provision of necessities for health, welfare, maintenance, and protection
feel concern/interest; attach importance; provide for needs
COMPASSION, LOVE, LISTENING, EMPATHY, GOLDEN RULE, SAFETY, QUALITY
INTEGRITY, TEACH, PRAYER, TIME
, nurse advocate -✔✔ANS voice for pt
liaison between pt and fam, physicians, and administration, assist w decision making
advocate for profession
Manager -✔✔ANS oversees nursing care, planning and implementation, directing and
monitoring, evaluation
Researcher -✔✔ANS Usually, doctoral or masters prepared
- ADN and BSN nurses do participate in collecting data, etc..
Specializing -✔✔ANS - work or treatment setting
- disease category or condition
- organ or body system
- popuation
Ultima -✔✔ANS the last syllable
word origins -✔✔ANS -Greek and Latin
-Eponyms--diseases named after a person who had the disease
-acronyms
-modern language
prefix -✔✔ANS modifies root
root -✔✔ANS -base, often followed by a combining vowel
-some meanings have 2+ roots that mean the same thing
suffix -✔✔ANS gives word essential meaning--describe something being done to a root o
that a root is doing
-3 kinds