According to Benner, an expert nurse goes through five levels of proficiency. Identify
them. {elaborations} - Novice: Beginning nurse, just graduated
Advanced beginner: some level of experience
Competent: 2-3years
Proficient: more than 2-3 years
Expert: field of nursing in many many years
American Nursing Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice
Assessment {elaborations} - The data collected can be subjective or objective,
pertaining to the patient.
American Nursing Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice
Diagnosis {elaborations} - analysis when it's done, identifying priority.
American Nursing Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice
Outcome Identification {elaborations} - making a goal, specific, measurable,
attainable, reachable, and timely manner.
American Nursing Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice
Planning {elaborations} - Creating a plan of care
American Nursing Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice
Implementation {elaborations} - Coordination of care, health teaching and health
promotion
American Nursing Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice
Evaluation {elaborations} - Evaluates progress, looking at goals
Define nursing (according to the ANA). {elaborations} - the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and 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
Identify the ANA Standards of Professional Performance {elaborations} - Ethics
· Education and Evidence-based practice and research
Quality of practice
· Communication, Leadership, and Collaboration
Professional Practice Evaluation
· Resources, Environmental Health
, Describe ANA's Nursing Code of Ethics {elaborations} - The nursing code of ethics is
a statement of philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principles you will
use to provide care to your patients.
autonomy {elaborations} - Independent nursing interventions that the nurse initiates
without medical orders
caregiver {elaborations} - help patients maintain and regain health, manage disease
and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the
healing process
Advocate {elaborations} - Protects patients' human and legal rights and provides
assistance in asserting these rights
Educator {elaborations} - Explains concepts and facts about health, describes the
reason for activities, demonstrates, reinforces, and evaluates the patient's progress in
learning
Communicator {elaborations} - is essential for all nursing roles and activities
Manager {elaborations} - Has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a
specific nursing unit
Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) {elaborations} - Fore Core roles: Certified
Nurse Mid-Wife, Certified Nurse Practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, and certified
registered nurse anesthetist.
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) {elaborations} - Expert clinician in a specialized area
of practice.
Nurse practitioner {elaborations} - Provides comprehensive health care to a group of
patients in an inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based setting
Certified Nurse-midwife {elaborations} - Involves the independent care for women in
normal pregnancy, labor and delivery, and care of newborns
Nurse Educator {elaborations} - works primarily in schools of nursing, staff
development departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments
Nursing Administrator {elaborations} - manages patient care and the delivery of
specific nursing services within a health care agency
Nurse Researcher {elaborations} - conducts evidence-based practice and research to
improve nursing care and further define and expand the scope of nursing practice