NUR 2058 FINAL EXAM DIMENSION PERSONAL STUDY GUIDE VERSION 2
Module 1 – Professional Nursing: History, Roles, Scope, and Standards of Practice
Nursing Now Chapters, 2, 4, 5
Quality and Safety Educating for Nurses (QSEN): (Chapter 4, pg 75; pg 390) is the
process of developing a framework for nursing schools; curriculum. Guidelines for what
is taught in schools.
Client-centered Care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
Quality Improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
Nurse Practice Acts: (Pg 100) is state legislation regulating the practice of nurses;
defines scope of practice and makes nurses accountable for their actions.
Establishes State Boards of Nursing (SBNs)
Defines SBN powers regarding practice within state
Rules written by SBNs become statutory law
Defines Scope of Practice for nurses
Ruling on who uses RN and LPN/LVN
Sets up application procedure for state licensure
Determines fees for licensure
Establishes requirements for renewal of licensure
Determines responsibility for any regulations governing expanded practice for
nurses in that state
American Nurses Association: (pg 9) concerned with the quality of nursing practice in
the daily health-care setting.
Reason for lack of power: less than 10% of all nurses are members at the national
level
Gives modern definition of nursing (pg 20): Nursing is the protection, promotion,
and optimization of clients’ health and abilities, the prevention of disease and
illness..
Board of Nursing:
Confidentiality: (pg188) Right of the client to expect the communication with a
professional to remain unshared with any other person unless a medical reason exists or
unless the safety of the public is threatened.
Florence Nightingale: (pg 30) (1820-1910) viewed as person who elevated nursing to
the status of a profession.
Lady with a Lamp
She introduced the concept of research.
Impact of Wars on Nursing: (pg22-25)
, Case Management: (pg 81) holds health-care services together across practitioners,
agencies, funding sources, locations, and times. Refers to method of coordinating care
with an individual client or on a system-wide basis.
Professional Organizations
Module 2 – Professionalism in Nursing
Nursing Now Chapters 1, 17
Professional Nursing Organizations: national nursing organizations need the
participation of all nurses in order to claim that they are truly representative of the
profession. Allows the membership to speak with one voice when making values about
health care issues.
Code of Ethics: (pg9) a written list of a profession’s values and standards of conduct.
RN’s often face ethical dilemmas which require an individual to make a choice between
two equally unfavorable alternatives.
Registered Nurse: (pg10) scope of practice is admission assessment, iv meds, blood
products, care plans, client teaching, unstable clients, and acute diseases. Must perform
the history and physicals.
Licensed Practical Nurse: scope is vital signs, uncomplicated skills, chronic
diseases, oral and IM, and medications.
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP): CNA, monitor techs, PCT… scope of practice
for CNA - feeding, basic hygiene, stable clients, chronic diseases, ambulation….
Module 3 – Healthcare Delivery Settings
Nursing Now Chapter 16
Telehealth and Telemedicine: (pg369;444) service where nurses answer the phone,
supply answers to health-related questions, advise callers on how to handle nonurgent
health situations; is the use of electronic information and communication technologies to
provide and support health care when distance separates the physician and client.
Medicaid: (pg362) federally funded, state-operated medical assistance program for
people with low incomes. Individual states determine eligibility and benefits. Finances a
large portion of maternal and child care for the poor; reimburses for nurse midwifery and
other advanced practice nursing; reimburses long-term care facility funding.
Medicare: (pg362) federally funded national health insurance program in the US for
people older than 65 yrs. Part A provides basic protection for medical, surgical, and
psychiatric care costs based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Part B is a voluntary
medical insurance plan that covers physician and certain outpatient services. Part D is an
unfunded insurance for medications.
Module 1 – Professional Nursing: History, Roles, Scope, and Standards of Practice
Nursing Now Chapters, 2, 4, 5
Quality and Safety Educating for Nurses (QSEN): (Chapter 4, pg 75; pg 390) is the
process of developing a framework for nursing schools; curriculum. Guidelines for what
is taught in schools.
Client-centered Care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
Quality Improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
Nurse Practice Acts: (Pg 100) is state legislation regulating the practice of nurses;
defines scope of practice and makes nurses accountable for their actions.
Establishes State Boards of Nursing (SBNs)
Defines SBN powers regarding practice within state
Rules written by SBNs become statutory law
Defines Scope of Practice for nurses
Ruling on who uses RN and LPN/LVN
Sets up application procedure for state licensure
Determines fees for licensure
Establishes requirements for renewal of licensure
Determines responsibility for any regulations governing expanded practice for
nurses in that state
American Nurses Association: (pg 9) concerned with the quality of nursing practice in
the daily health-care setting.
Reason for lack of power: less than 10% of all nurses are members at the national
level
Gives modern definition of nursing (pg 20): Nursing is the protection, promotion,
and optimization of clients’ health and abilities, the prevention of disease and
illness..
Board of Nursing:
Confidentiality: (pg188) Right of the client to expect the communication with a
professional to remain unshared with any other person unless a medical reason exists or
unless the safety of the public is threatened.
Florence Nightingale: (pg 30) (1820-1910) viewed as person who elevated nursing to
the status of a profession.
Lady with a Lamp
She introduced the concept of research.
Impact of Wars on Nursing: (pg22-25)
, Case Management: (pg 81) holds health-care services together across practitioners,
agencies, funding sources, locations, and times. Refers to method of coordinating care
with an individual client or on a system-wide basis.
Professional Organizations
Module 2 – Professionalism in Nursing
Nursing Now Chapters 1, 17
Professional Nursing Organizations: national nursing organizations need the
participation of all nurses in order to claim that they are truly representative of the
profession. Allows the membership to speak with one voice when making values about
health care issues.
Code of Ethics: (pg9) a written list of a profession’s values and standards of conduct.
RN’s often face ethical dilemmas which require an individual to make a choice between
two equally unfavorable alternatives.
Registered Nurse: (pg10) scope of practice is admission assessment, iv meds, blood
products, care plans, client teaching, unstable clients, and acute diseases. Must perform
the history and physicals.
Licensed Practical Nurse: scope is vital signs, uncomplicated skills, chronic
diseases, oral and IM, and medications.
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP): CNA, monitor techs, PCT… scope of practice
for CNA - feeding, basic hygiene, stable clients, chronic diseases, ambulation….
Module 3 – Healthcare Delivery Settings
Nursing Now Chapter 16
Telehealth and Telemedicine: (pg369;444) service where nurses answer the phone,
supply answers to health-related questions, advise callers on how to handle nonurgent
health situations; is the use of electronic information and communication technologies to
provide and support health care when distance separates the physician and client.
Medicaid: (pg362) federally funded, state-operated medical assistance program for
people with low incomes. Individual states determine eligibility and benefits. Finances a
large portion of maternal and child care for the poor; reimburses for nurse midwifery and
other advanced practice nursing; reimburses long-term care facility funding.
Medicare: (pg362) federally funded national health insurance program in the US for
people older than 65 yrs. Part A provides basic protection for medical, surgical, and
psychiatric care costs based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Part B is a voluntary
medical insurance plan that covers physician and certain outpatient services. Part D is an
unfunded insurance for medications.
