certain patients
2. Is nursing a gut feeling ? ANSWER Nursing is
90% GUT trust your intuition and instinct feelings
3. How does nursing possess a unique body of knowledge ANSWER Because it is like
no other profession. Nursing is completely independent and focuses on the human response `
4. What is the status of nurses in relation to other members of the health
team? ANSWER Nurses are completely independent and responsible for their own actions.
EX ANSWER know correct doses, medications etc
Nurses are also interdependent of the physician in terms of caring for patients
5. nursing as a verb means ANSWER to do
6. nursing as a noun means ANSWER to know
7. The American Nurses Association definition of nursing ANSWER Changed to the diagnos
and
treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems in 1995
8. Nursing deals with ANSWER the human response and the
fall out (cause and what brings them in)
, EX ANSWER patient has surgery and is in pain. the nurse will make the patient comfortable and relieve pain.
9. Distinguishing Nursing from Medicine ANSWER In general, medicine is concerned with the
diagnosis and treatment (and cure, when possible) of disease
Allopathic vs Osteopathic vs Holistic Approaches
Nursing is concerned with caring for the person from a holistic perspective in a variety of health-
related situations
10. Allopathic ANSWER 4 year degree , med school, residency program , boards, specialty fellowship
STRICTEST CLINICAL APPROACH
focuses on illness and injury and then fixes it
11. Osteopathic (DO) ANSWER use a little allopathic and holistic
They believe that if the spines not lined up and crush those nerves then disease results
require students to take an extra 500 hours of manipulative medicine