CONCEPTS IN NURSING EXAM 1 2024/2025 WITH 100%
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Standards of Practice - Answer describe a competent level of nursing
based on a decision making model which includes:
Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcome identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Scope of Practice - Answer Authoritative statements that describe the
responsibility of the profession. A complex system of intertwined
responsibilities, including legal, ethical, and value components.
A social contract with society of the expectations of the profession, and
the professions expectation of itself.
The purpose is to improve the health and well-being of our patients,
families, communities.
Current Status of Nursing: Characteristics - Answer Knowledge-based
on education and practice, the "Science of Nursing in all its complexity.
Mission-our shared goals, what those we care for can expect from us.
,Education-our formal preparation
Social Contract-what we promise society, what society expects from us.
Autonomy-our independent capacity to make decisions for our patients
within the confines of our scope of practice.
Accountability-ownership of our decision-making.
Current Status of Nursing: Values - Answer Respect for human dignity.
Care for health problems regardless of the nature of the health problem.
The patient's right to self determination.
The relationship with our nursing and non-nursing colleagues.
Our total commitment to the patient.
Current Status of Nursing: Barriers - Answer The lack of
acknowledgement the nursing has a unique set of knowledge that in
some manner is not entirely objective, observable and analytical.
Nursing knowledge is based on the human response to what is
happening to the patient and encompasses the biophysical as well as
psychosocial realms. It is holism, the mind, body, and spirit that make
up the human-being.
Gender stereotyping
Lack of clarity on what it means to call oneself a nurse
Appearance (changing norms on nursing dress)
Health care organizations controlling nursing
, Health care colleagues such as those in medicine consider nursing an
"occupation", not a profession.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Believed the role of the nurse was to
help the body recover, and remain free from disease
Our first "nurse scientist"
An epidemiologist who analyzed statistics to show the connection
between poor sanitation and disease such as cholera and dysentery
Known as the lady with the lamp, she showed that fresh air, sanitation
and nutrition were key aspects of treatment for wounded soldiers
Practices she advocated are still a part of twenty first century nursing.
Clara Barton - Answer Established the American Red Cross, is known as
the "American Florence Nightingale." (Pre American Civil War)
Dorthea Dix - Answer supervisor of the Union Army Nurses (Civil War)
Mother Bickerdyke - Answer organized the ambulance service to
transport wounded soldiers to battle field hospital (Civil War)
Harriet Tubman - Answer prominent in the Underground Railroad (Civil
War)
Mary Mahoney - Answer the first professionally education African
American nurse. A proponent of better relations between the races.
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Standards of Practice - Answer describe a competent level of nursing
based on a decision making model which includes:
Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcome identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Scope of Practice - Answer Authoritative statements that describe the
responsibility of the profession. A complex system of intertwined
responsibilities, including legal, ethical, and value components.
A social contract with society of the expectations of the profession, and
the professions expectation of itself.
The purpose is to improve the health and well-being of our patients,
families, communities.
Current Status of Nursing: Characteristics - Answer Knowledge-based
on education and practice, the "Science of Nursing in all its complexity.
Mission-our shared goals, what those we care for can expect from us.
,Education-our formal preparation
Social Contract-what we promise society, what society expects from us.
Autonomy-our independent capacity to make decisions for our patients
within the confines of our scope of practice.
Accountability-ownership of our decision-making.
Current Status of Nursing: Values - Answer Respect for human dignity.
Care for health problems regardless of the nature of the health problem.
The patient's right to self determination.
The relationship with our nursing and non-nursing colleagues.
Our total commitment to the patient.
Current Status of Nursing: Barriers - Answer The lack of
acknowledgement the nursing has a unique set of knowledge that in
some manner is not entirely objective, observable and analytical.
Nursing knowledge is based on the human response to what is
happening to the patient and encompasses the biophysical as well as
psychosocial realms. It is holism, the mind, body, and spirit that make
up the human-being.
Gender stereotyping
Lack of clarity on what it means to call oneself a nurse
Appearance (changing norms on nursing dress)
Health care organizations controlling nursing
, Health care colleagues such as those in medicine consider nursing an
"occupation", not a profession.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Believed the role of the nurse was to
help the body recover, and remain free from disease
Our first "nurse scientist"
An epidemiologist who analyzed statistics to show the connection
between poor sanitation and disease such as cholera and dysentery
Known as the lady with the lamp, she showed that fresh air, sanitation
and nutrition were key aspects of treatment for wounded soldiers
Practices she advocated are still a part of twenty first century nursing.
Clara Barton - Answer Established the American Red Cross, is known as
the "American Florence Nightingale." (Pre American Civil War)
Dorthea Dix - Answer supervisor of the Union Army Nurses (Civil War)
Mother Bickerdyke - Answer organized the ambulance service to
transport wounded soldiers to battle field hospital (Civil War)
Harriet Tubman - Answer prominent in the Underground Railroad (Civil
War)
Mary Mahoney - Answer the first professionally education African
American nurse. A proponent of better relations between the races.
