interprofessional Education (IPE) - Answers s when two or more professionals of different professions
learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration, practise and quality of patient/client
centered care
Ex: An RN working with a PSW together to maximize the client's recovery and quality of care during
treatment.
intraprofessional Education (IPE) - Answers Intraprofessional Education (IPE) is when two or more
categories of the same discipline of learn about and from each other: What do they have in common?
How are they different?
Ex: In Canada we have different categories of nurses: CNS, RN, NP, RPN, and LPN
Humanism - Answers Assumes that people always tend to try to achieve self-actualization
A humanistic approach seeks to facilitate an individual's pre-existing capacity for self-actualization
(Lindsey, Shields, & Hammond, 1995)
Existentialism - Answers assumes that individuals are free to make their own choices and are the
architects of their own lives
Metaparadigm Concepts in Nursing - Answers Person (client, patient)
Person can consist of an individual, family, group, community, or population at large
Environment (internal and external; natural and built)
Health
Nursing
RNO mission statement - Answers our mission is to foster knowledge based nursing practice, promote
quality work environments, deliver excellence in professional development, and advance healthy policy
to improve health
RNO Values - Answers Engage in registered nursing students to stimulate membership and promote the
value of belonging to their professional organization
Advance the role and image of nurses as members of vital, knowledge driven, caring profession, and as
significant contributors to health
speak out emerging issues that impact on nurses and the nursing profession, health and health care.
Influence healthy public policy to positively impact the determinants of health, supporting medicare and
strengthening a publicly funded not for profit health care system.
, CNO Professional Standards - Answers 1. Accountability
-Each nurse is accountable to the public and responsible for ensuring that her/his practice and conduct
meets legislative requirements and the standards of the profession.
2. Continuing competence
-Each nurse maintains and continually improves his/her competence by participating in CNO Quality
Assurance (QA).
3. Ethics
-Each nurse understands, upholds and promotes the values and beliefs described in CNO's Ethics
practice standard.
4. Knowledge
-Each nurse possesses, through basic education and CONTINUING LEARNING, the knowledge relevant to
his/her professional practice.
5. Knowledge application
-Each nurse continually improves the application of professional knowledge.
6. Leadership
-Each nurse demonstrates his/her leadership by providing, facilitating, and promoting the best possible
care/service to the public.
7. Relationships
-Each nurse establishes and maintains respectful, collaborate, therapeutic and professional
relationships.
CNO: Practice Standards of Ethics - Answers Maintain commitments
Client well being
Client choice
Respect for life
Privacy and confidentiality
Fairness
Truthfulness