Florance Nightingale (1820-1910) - CORRECT ANSWER Founder of modern nursing
Lady with the lamp
Revolutionizing nursing (training nurses, improving sanitation, etc.)
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER Launched the American Red Cross in 1881
An "angel" in the Civil War
Treated the wounded in the field (battlefield nurse)
Established first free public school in Bordentown
Mary Eliza Mahoney - CORRECT ANSWER First trained African American nurse in the US
Advocated for racial equality
Among the first women in Boston to register to vote after 19th Amendment was ratified
Linda Richards - CORRECT ANSWER America's first professionally trained nurse
Established moderner muring training in US and Japan
Jean Watson - CORRECT ANSWER Developing the theory of Human Caring
, "Nursing is both a science and an art"
Work promoting caring in nursing, education, practice, and research
Patricia Benner - CORRECT ANSWER Theory on nursing skill acquisition
Adapting the Dreyfus model of skill and applied it to nursing
5 stages: Novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expect
Autonomy - CORRECT ANSWER Nurse: Independent clinical decisions, judgments, and
actions for patient care, within the nurses scope of practice
Patient: Right to make an informed decision about there own medical care without coercion
Beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER Obligation of doing good and promoting the well being
of the patients
Nonmaleficence - CORRECT ANSWER Duty to do no harm
Justice - CORRECT ANSWER Treating all patients fairly and equitably, regardless of the
individuals circumstances
What patent is the highest priority ? - CORRECT ANSWER The most unstable one
MA BORN (scope of practice) - CORRECT ANSWER Board of Registration in Nursing
Scope of practice for nursing within the sates Nurse Practice Act
Implements and enforces the legal and regulatory guidelines in MA
Specific to MA law
ANA (scope of practice) - CORRECT ANSWER American Nurses Association