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Describe the historical highlights of 21st century Nursing - Answer -Advances in technology and informatics -acuity level: patients are more sick, but are living longer with the sickness - early discharge- more revenue to get people in and out quickly - evolving nursing practice and education (culture, ethics, end of life care, safety, quality) What are some of the influences on Today's practice? - Answer -Healthcare reform -demographic changes -more medically underserved -threat of bioterrorism -rising health care costs (evaluate clients ability, evaluate products) -nursing shortage: there is a lot of pressure to get patients out of the hospital, but with the best care Why should you evaluate a patients ability and the products they are on? - Answer to determine whether or not they can afford what is being prescribe to them, and if it will conflict with anything else that they are on. What are the Scopes and Standards of practice for the Nursing Profession? (acts and associations) - Answer -American Nurses Association (ANA) -Standards of Nursing Practice (minimal level of competency you are expected to have) -Standards of Professional Performance (competency level of behavior) -American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statement -State Board Nurses Practice Acts What do the State Board Nurses Practice Acts regulate? - Answer -the scope of nursing practice to protect the public -legal regulations What are the six standards of practice? - Answer 1. Assessment 2. Diagnosis 3. Outcome identifications 4. Planning 5. Implementation 6. Evaluation What is the Licensure and Certification to be come an RN - Answer -Graduate of an accredited nursing school -Pass the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) administered by individual State Board of Nursing -Licensed by State Board of Nursing -Certification, is offered by national nursing organization, and may be obtained in a specific area of the nursing practice. (ongoing education is required) What is the Art and Science of Nursing? - Answer It requires a blend of current knowledge and practice standards with an insightful and humane approach to client care -Care should reflect the needs and values of the society -Must use critical thinking to integrate information from the science and nursing knowledge bases What does autonomy mean in terms of nursing? - Answer to be independent in nursing interventions -what you can do yourself without a doctors orders Accountability - Answer you are responsible for the type and quality of nursing care that you provide professionally and legally -keep current EBP to defend your decisions What are some of the roles that Nurses take on? - Answer -direct care provider and clinical decision maker -patient advocate -researcher -educator -leader/manager Name some professional nursing organizations - Answer American Nurses Association (ANA) American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Simple tasks such as removing clutter from a patients room, decreasing excess noise, and cleaning up soiled linens is the use of what theory? - Answer Florence Nightingale's Environmental theory to promote healing and comfort What is a nursing theory? - Answer it conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe nursing care. they serve as the foundation for the art and science of nursing. What is the goal of nursing knowledge? - Answer Is to explain the practice of nursing as different and distinct from the practice of medicine, psychology, and other health care disciplines What are the components of a theory? - Answer concepts definitions assumptions phenomena What is a phenomena? - Answer aspects of reality that can be consciously sensed or experienced. They are a response to an event. -Concepts, definitions, and assumptions are all used to describe a phenomena. What is a concept? - Answer ideas or mental images that help to describe a phenomena. - can be either abstract or concrete What are definitions? - Answer they convey the general meaning of the concepts. - can be either theoretical/conceptual or operational -Theoretical-simply define a particular concept -operational- state how concepts are measured Nursing Domain - Answer the view of the profession, it is knowledge; history, nursing theory, education, practice and research -practical and theoretical (central concepts; values etc.) Nursing paradigm - Answer a pattern of beliefs used to describe the disciple -it links science, philosophy and theories accepted and applied by that discipline What is the nursing metaparadigm - Answer allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is, what nursing does, and why nurses do what they do What are the four components of the nursing metaparadigm? - Answer person health environment nursing What is the nursing process? - Answer method of applying the theory or knowledge scientific method nurses use to ensure quality care