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origination of the word "nurse" - ✔✔✔ANSWER-from the latin word "nutrix"
meaning to nourish



Interrelated roles of nurses - ✔✔✔ANSWER-communicator, teacher,
counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator



coping with disability and death - ✔✔✔ANSWER-nurses use optimal function
of maximum strengths and potentials, refer to community support systems; provide
care to families and patients during end-of-life care, hospice



The Nursing Process - ✔✔✔ANSWER--one of major guidelines for nursing
practice

,-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing



Nurse Practice Acts - ✔✔✔ANSWER--define legal scope of nursing practice

-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal requirements and
titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses



5 vital signs - ✔✔✔ANSWER-respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure,
temperature, and pain



Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria - ✔✔✔ANSWER--
well defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation

, Florence Nightingale - ✔✔✔ANSWER-defined nursing as both an art and
science, differentiated nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing
education, published books; founder of modern nursing



Clara Barton - ✔✔✔ANSWER-established red cross; volunteered to care for
wounds and feed union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for
the army of James



sources of knowledge - ✔✔✔ANSWER--traditional ( passed down from
generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived
expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)



objective - ✔✔✔ANSWER-you can see the object



subjective - ✔✔✔ANSWER-coming from that subject



types of knowledge - ✔✔✔ANSWER--science (observing, identifying,
describing, investigating, and explaining events and occurences that are perceived
in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes used
to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a
desired result)

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