COMPLETE SOLUTION
What is the minimal grade to pass?
77C
ULL department of nursing missions statement
to seek to promote, expand & validate scientific knowledge & evidence-based practice
to advance health & provide an atmosphere of scholarly inquiry, an appreciation of
professional values, inter-professional collaboration & active community service
What happens if you miss a test?
will receive an unexcused absence and grade 0
What is required if you are applying for your first clinical course?
File an application with the LA State Board of Nursing (LSBN) & have criminal
background history using fingerprints
Florence Nightingale's Theory of Practice
1st nursing theorist;
Foundation for health promotion & guidance for the practice of professional nursing
Florence Nightingale's theory of practice- environmental adaptation theory
-ventilation & warming
-Noise
-Variety
-Diet
-Light
-Chattering hopes & advice
-cleanliness (health of houses)
Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring
-Transpersonal Caring (art of nursing)- caring amount nurses, environment, and client is
essential to healing
-Holistic outlook- effect and importance of altruism, sensitivity, trust, and interpersonal
skills
Dorothy Orem's Self-Care deficit model
-goal: restore clients self-care capability
-Purposeful Nursing Intervention-Facilitates client self-care by measuring the client's
deficit relative to self-care needs; Implements appropriate measures to assist the client
in meeting these needs by matching them with an appropriate supportive intervention
Patricia Benner's Novice to Expert
stages of clinical competence; one of the most useful frameworks for assessing nurses'
needs at different stages of professional growth
Patricia Benner's 5 levels of nursing experience
novice, advanced, beginner, competent, proficient, and expert
what is the minimum GPA required for admission into the 200 level nursing
course?
2.8
Students who earn a D or F in 2 or more required non-nursing courses
Will not be allowed to major in nursing at UL Lafayette
, patient centered care
providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences,
needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Mandates protection of an individual's privacy by health care providers and throughout
society
Nurse Practice Act
right granted by a state to protect those who need nursing care. The guidelines of the
NPA and its rules provide safe parameters within which to work and protect patients
from unprofessional and unsafe nursing practice
NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination)
a nationwide examination for the licensing of nurses in the United States; administered
through the state boards of nursing
State Board of Nursing
A state board of nursing holds the legal authority for nursing practice and regulates
nursing practice through:
Establishing the requirements to obtain a
nursing license
Issuing nursing licenses
Determining the scope of practice
Setting minimum education standards
Managing disciplinary procedures
What do you have to do if wanting to work as a nurse in a different state?
contact that state's board of nursing and see what they require of you
State Board's process if you did something bad.
they first investigate, then they put you into a program to help with whatever you did,
they are never looking to take your license (as long as what you did was not to
intentionally to harm someone else)
Drinking blood alcohol concentration?
over 21- 0.08%
under 21- 0.00%
Nurse Licensure Compact
• Mutual recognition model for nursing licensure; maintain home state license, but may
practice in any party state
What enables nurses to work in different states using the same license?
the nurse licensure compact (24 states in it)
Institution Review Board (IRB)
there to protect the patient(s) you want to do the research/study on; protects ethical
rights of patients; examine the proposal of what research you want to do
nursing ethics
system of principles that govern the actions of the nurse in relation to patients, families,
other health care providers, policymakers, and society