QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Clara Barton. Answer: Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the
American Red Cross in the US in 1882.
◉ Dorthea Lynde Dix. Answer: Wanted better care of mentally ill.
Established a federal system of hospitals.
◉ Mary Mahoney. Answer: First professionally trained African
American nurse
◉ Isabelle Hampton Robb. Answer: Limited the number of hours in a
work day, first president of the ANA
◉ Lillian Wald. Answer: Founder of public health nursing,
neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the lower East
side in NYC.
◉ Virginia Lynch. Answer: contributed to Forensic Nursing and
made it what it is today.
,◉ Hildegard Peplau. Answer: Believed nursing was therapeutic,
interpersonal, & a goal orientated process.
◉ Martha Rogers. Answer: Emphasis on the science and art of
nursing, with the unitary human being central to the discipline of
nursing
◉ Jean Watson. Answer: believed in the Theory of Human Caring,
holistic care
◉ Nola Pender. Answer: Believed in the Health Promotion Model
◉ Patricia Benner and Judith Wrubel. Answer: Nursing practice
within a context of caring and skill development. Caring is a common
bond of persons situated in a state of being that is essential to
nursing. "Novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and
expert"
◉ What does QSEN do?. Answer: Describes the knowledge, skills,
and attitudes necessary for future nurses to have to continuously
improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within
which they work (the study the educational preparation of health
care professionals to see if new graduates were ready for actual
practice)
,◉ What does 'QSEN' stand for?. Answer: Quality and Safety
Education in Nursing
◉ evidence-based practice. Answer: clinical decision making that
integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and
patient characteristics and preferences
◉ Nursing Practice Aims. Answer: Promote Health, Prevent Illness,
Restore Health, and Facilitate coping with disability or death.
◉ How do you promote health?. Answer: By identifying, analyzing,
and maximizing each pts individual strengths
◉ How do you prevent illness?. Answer: Educational programs for
pregnancy, smoking, etc; Health assessments in institutions, clinics,
and community settings
◉ How do you restore health?. Answer: Performing assessments
that detect an illness, reporting abnormal findings to a HCP,
providing direct care to the person who is ill; planning, teaching, and
carrying out rehab for illnesses.
◉ Healthy People 2020. Answer: Attain high-quality, longer lives free
of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
, Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health
of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health
for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors
across all life stages.
◉ How do you facilitate coping with disability or death?. Answer:
Maximizing person's strengths and potentials or providing end- of-
life- care
◉ Code of Ethics for Nurses. Answer: Philosophical ideals of right
and wrong that define principles
◉ NLN Ten Trends to Watch For Nursing Education. Answer:
Changing demographics and increasing diversity
The technological explosion
The era of the educated consumer, alternative therapies, and
genomic and palliative care
The shift to population-based care and the increasing complexity of
patient care
The cost of health care and the challenge of managed care
The impact of health policy and regulation