Questions and Answers
Autonomy: - answer Right to make decisions and take control
Responsibility: - answer Being answerable for things within one's power, control, or
management
Accountability: - answer Accepting responsibility for outcomes
Professionalism: - answer The competence or skill expected of a professional
What did Florence Nightingale do? – answer rStarted the first nursing school in London
in 1860, introduced holistic nursing, recognized importance of environment in healing,
did nursing research (statistician)
Why was Florence Nightingale so important in nursing history? – answer She is the
mother of modern nursing; she told people to wash hands in between patients, which
decreased the mortality rate
What were Florence Nightingale's views regarding the environment of care? -
answerShe believed the environment is important for the healing process, did not
believe in germ theory
What are the characteristics of a profession? - answerEducation acquired in college or
university
Education prolonged
Work involves mental creativity
Decisions based on science or theory
Commitment and identification strong
Workers are autonomous (independent)
People unlikely to change professions
Commitment above money
Individual accountability
What are the benefits of joining a Professional Association? - answerProfessional
obligation
Publish journals
Offer continuing education
Develop professional standards
Influence policy/ political action
Mentoring
Colleagueship
, How is the Image of Nursing formed? - answerSocial context (society's image of
nursing)
Who is responsible for the Image of Nursing? - answerNurses
Public Policy: - answerPolicy made at the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of
the federal, state, and local levels of government that affects individual and institutional
behaviors under the government's respective jurisdiction
PAC (Political Action Committee): - answerAn organization that raises money privately
to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level
Politics: - answerThe activities associated with the governance of a country or other
area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to
achieve power
Lobbyist: - answerSomeone hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to
support that business or cause
Lobbying: - answerSeek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: - answerEnsure all Americans have access
to quality, affordable health care and creates the transformation within the health care
system necessary to contain costs
Why should nurses care about policy? - answerPolicy provides for finding solutions to
problems, regulates nursing practice (licensure), and provides money (ACA-benefit
some)
How does policy affect healthcare delivery? - answerAccess to care, staffing, standards
of practice
Where is policy developed? - answerFederal, state, and local levels
How can nurses impact policy? - answerBy lobbying, being on committees, taking part
in Political Action Committees (PACS) (Ex: ANA), Grassroots advocacy
Caring: - answerThe Art of Nursing; doing for others what they cannot do for themselves
Intuition: - answerHaving a gut feeling, related to experience, is an ART, not a science
Advocate: - answerKnowledge of what patient's want and what they think their
outcomes should be, balancing patient needs, patient inclusion, and patient's opinion
Recommendation and Support of patient