Nursing as a profession ⟶ Patient centered
⟶ Professionalism
o Administer quality care
o Be responsible and accountable
⟶ Health care advocacy groups : FWJF / IOM
Benner’s stages of ⟶ Novice (us)
nursing proficiency ⟶ Advance beginner
⟶ Competent
⟶ Proficient
⟶ Expert
Definitions of American nurse Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
nursing Association abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through
the diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care
of
individuals, families, communities, and populations.
International Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals
Council of of all ages, families, groups, and communities, sick or well, and in all
nursing settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health; prevention of illness;
and the care of ill, disabled, and dying people
Six Assessments Standards of Ethics Quality of Practice
Standards Diagnosis Professional Education Communication
of Practice Outcomes Perform Evidence-Based practiced and research
identification
Planning Leadership Environmental health
Implementation Resources Professional practice evaluation
Evaluation Collaboration
Code of ⟶ A code of ethics is the philosophical ideas of right and wrong that define principles used
Ethics to provide care.
Professional ⟶ Provider of care Clinical Nurse specialist
Roles ⟶ Advanced practice registered nurse Certified Nurse practitioner
⟶ Nurse educator Certified Nurse Midwife
⟶ Nurse administrator Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
⟶ Nurse researcher
Nursing ⟶ Less nurses = its important to learn to use Time Management
storage patient contact time efficiently and Therapeutic communication
professionally. Patient education
⟶ Essential skills include Compassionate implementation of bedside
skills
Histor Florence Nightingale ⟶ First practicing epidemiologist
y ⟶ Organized first school of nursing
⟶ Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
⟶ Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
⟶ believed that the role of nurses was to help the body recover, and
the then remain free, from disease.
Civil war – 20 th Clara Barton founder of the American Red Cross
century Mother Bickerdyke organized ambulance services
Harriet Tubma Underground rail road to help free slaves
,The Civil War, Mary Mahoney as a noted nursing leader she brought forth an
fought from 1860 to awareness of cultural diversity and respect for
1865, stimulated the the individual, regardless of background, race,
growth of nursing in color, or religion.
the United States
, Lilian wald opened the Henry Street Settlement, which
focused on the health needs of poor people who
lived in tenements in New York City.
Twenty Century ⟶ Movement toward scientific, research-based practice and defined
body of knowledge
⟶ Nurses assumed expanded and advanced practice roles
⟶ Changes in curriculum
⟶ Advances in tech and informatics
⟶ New programs and leardership roles.
Contemporary Importance of nurses’ self-care
influences Changes in society lead to changes in nursing:
➢ Affordable Care Act (ACA)
➢ Rising health care costs
➢ Demographic changes
➢ Medically underserved
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Health Care ⟶ Uninsured patients
⟶ Reducing health care costs while maintaining high quality-care for patients.