Scopes and standards of practice correct answers - provides parameters for practice
- defines The Who, what, where, when, how and why of practice
- outlines key aspect of nursing's professional role and practice
Nursing Practice Act correct answers - regulated by various state laws
- to protect the public from unsafe and unlicensed practice by regulating practice and education
- the most important piece of legislation affecting nursing practice
registered professional nurse in NY correct answers - diagnose and treat a patient's unique
responses to diagnosed health problems
- perform health assessments
- teach and counsel
- execute medical regiments
- contribute as members of an interdisciplinary health care team
to be licensed in NY... correct answers - be of good moral character
- be at least 18
- meet education requirements
- complete coursework in the ID'ing and reporting of child abuse
- pass the NCLEX
Nurse Licensure Compact correct answers - one license for 34 states
- the nurse could be subject to the discipline process in the states of practice
The nursing process correct answers Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Florence Nightingale correct answers - creating a supportive environment to aid the healing
process
- nurse's function was to put the patient in their best condition to let nature act upon him or her
- nursing is based on knowledge of the patient and his or her surroundings
Nursing Metaparadigm correct answers person, environment, health, nursing
grand theories correct answers thinking of nursing as a whole
Sister Callista Roy: adaptation Model correct answers - Four adaptive modes: physiological, self
concept (group and identity), role function mode, interdependence
- by identifiying types of demands placed on the client assessing adaptation to demands; helping
the client to adapt
, Dorothea Orem correct answers self care theory
self care theory correct answers - why people can be helped through nursing
- self care deficits require nursing attention
- nursing is a human service and nurses design intervention to provide or manage self care
actions for sustaining health or recovering from illness
Theory of Chronic Sorrow correct answers analyze individual responses of people experiencing
ongoing disparity due to chronic illness, caregiving responsibilities, loss of child, or bereavement
- the sorrow is cyclic or recurrent and brings to mind a person's losses, disappointments, or fears
practice level theory correct answers - low level of abstraction
- reflection of specific nursing phenomena
- connection to research and/or practice
- incorporation of diversities
- limits in generalization
evidenced based practice correct answers the conscientious use of current best evidence in
making decisions about the care of patients
primary health promotion and illness prevention correct answers - weight loss, diet, exercise,
smoking cessation, immunization, family safety, safer sex, prevent alcohol abuse, and illicit drug
abuse
secondary health problems and illness prevention correct answers - screening, Pap smears,
mammograms, and family counseling
tertiary health promotion correct answers medication, medical therapy, surgical treatment, rehab,
PT/OT
never events correct answers serious reportable events; medical errors that should never happen
to a patient
never events include correct answers - vascular catheter associated infection
- pressure ulcers
- surgical site infections
- hospital acquired injuries
- objects left in surgery
- blood incompatability
- air embolism
- catheter acquired urinary tract infection
HIPAA correct answers Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- provides federal protection for individually identifiable health information
When do you assess vital signs? correct answers admission to any health care agency