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origination of the word "nurse" - ANSWER ✔✔from the latin word
"nutrix" meaning to nourish
Interrelated roles of nurses - ANSWER ✔✔communicator, teacher,
counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
coping with disability and death - ANSWER ✔✔nurses use optimal
function of maximum strengths and potentials, refer to community
support systems; provide care to families and patients during end-of-life
care, hospice
,The Nursing Process - ANSWER ✔✔-one of major guidelines for
nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Nurse Practice Acts - ANSWER ✔✔-define legal scope of nursing
practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal
requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
5 vital signs - ANSWER ✔✔respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure,
temperature, and pain
Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria -
ANSWER ✔✔-well defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
,-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER ✔✔defined nursing as both an art
and science, differentiated nursing from medicine, created freestanding
nursing education, published books; founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton - ANSWER ✔✔established red cross; volunteered to
care for wounds and feed union soldiers during civil war; served as
supervisor of nurses for the army of James
sources of knowledge - ANSWER ✔✔-traditional ( passed down from
generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on
person's perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective - ANSWER ✔✔you can see the object
subjective - ANSWER ✔✔coming from that subject
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, types of knowledge - ANSWER ✔✔-science (observing, identifying,
describing, investigating, and explaining events and occurences that are
perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the
processes used to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring
about a desired result)
goals of nursing research - ANSWER ✔✔-improve care in clinical
setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics,
nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
deductive reasoning - ANSWER ✔✔examines a general idea and
then considers specific actions or ideas
inductive reasoning - ANSWER ✔✔one builds from specific ideas or
actions to conclusions about general ideas
health - ANSWER ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity